Nominally a Disney cartoon, but with more of an underground-comic style and sensibility: thick black outlines around the primitive figures, all of whom look like distant relatives of the Simpsons. The family dog, Spot, wants to be a boy, and thanks to his faculty of speech has been passing as one at school (name of Scott), and even his master's mother-slash-teacher can't see through the disguise, and now a mad scientist called Dr. Krank promises actual transmutation. Even for a cartoon, even a campy, facetious, free-wheeling, self-satirizing, smart-ass one, this is a hard premise to swallow and keep down. Voices by Nathan Lane, Kelsey Grammer, Shaun Fleming, and Debra Jo Rupp; directed by Timothy Bjorklund. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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