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Strays (2023)

 



Strays is an animal comedy starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx.

Strays is directed by TV show director, Josh Greenbaum, who directs the movie very safe. I haven't seen anything from him before and there really wasn't anything special to make me excited to see another one of his shows. On the other hand, the film is written by Dan Perrault who is a very niche writer. I actually enjoyed the show that probably landed him this role, Players. The characters there were well-written and realistic. 

Will Ferrell plays the straight man-dog in this film. This didn't leave him much room to be as silly as he normally could be. Jamie Foxx was the counterpart to Ferrell but doesn't have too much of a contrast with Ferrell to really make his character more interesting. The film has a great set of comedians who could have made this film funnier but I found myself laughing twice in the film as most of the funny parts were ruined from the trailer.

It wasn't as bad as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in terms of entertainment but as far as what to expect the film lands lower than Plane as that film was better than expected. Result: C

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