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Jul 15, 2022 · In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A down-on-his-luck hound finds himself in a town full of cats who need a hero to defend them from a ruthless villain's evil plot to wipe their village off the map ...
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- Mark Koetsier, Chris Bailey, Rob Minkoff
- PG
- Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
- Dogs and cats, fighting together...mass hysteria!
- Your favorite Mel Brooks film is...
- Verdict
By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jul 15, 2022 3:20 pm
Posted: Jul 15, 2022 3:14 pm
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank arrives in theaters on Friday, July 15.
Relentlessly committed to the bit, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, for all intents and purposes, is a Mel Brooks movie. Not an actual one, written and directed by comedy legend Brooks, but one that emulates Brooks' style, tone, and gags while also referencing Brooks' own movies. To clarify, Brooks himself is involved with Paws of Fury, as the voice of the Shogun, and the movie itself is more or less a reworked version of Blazing Saddles (it was even titled Blazing Samurai at one point in its development), so this is the closest thing you'll get to an actual Mel Brooks film here in 2022, for better or worse.
Paws of Fury is a touch clumsy, a bit hacky, and not exactly an animated treat for the eyes. The story is tired and many of the jokes fall flat. All that aside, it's still good for a chuckle or two if not only because Mel Brooks' entire M.O. is to throw a hundred jokes at the wall in the hope 30 of them will stick. So the humor here, in this simple story of a hapless dog, Hank (Michael Cera), being made the protector of a cat village, is literally forced through the lens of Brooks as if every potential guffaw was born of a "What would Mel do?" philosophy.
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Young Frankenstein
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
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Even the racism Bart encounters in Blazing Saddles as a Black sheriff is handled here, masked behind the cats' presumed hatred of dogs. Throw in an homage to the iconic fart scene and there's not much of Blazing Saddles that doesn't get reconfigured in this ridiculous reskin.
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is a crass cyclone of jokes and japes that lovingly (also strangely) presents itself as a Mel Brooks movie remake, with Brooks' blessing and participation. This unique quality helps distinguish the project, even though the gags will elicit more eye-rolls than laughs. It's the kind of film where most celebrity voicer...
Jul 16, 2022 · Compared to this global juggernaut, or to the expensive productions typically offered by Disney and Pixar, the new Nickelodeon-branded animated film Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank looks like a ...
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Jul 14, 2022 · Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank. Directed by Chris Bailey, Mark Koetsier, Rob Minkoff. Animation, Action, Comedy, Family. PG. 1h 37m. Find Tickets. When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...
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Jul 15, 2022 · Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank: Directed by Chris Bailey, Mark Koetsier, Rob Minkoff. With Michael Cera, Samuel L. Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Kylie Kuioka. Hank, a loveable dog with a head full of dreams about becoming a samurai, sets off in search of his destiny.
- Chris Bailey, Mark Koetsier, Rob Minkoff
- 93
- 1 min
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank tries to be a self-aware animated action movie, but ends up being cheesy, slow, and a bit boring. Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 17, 2022. The film's ...
Jul 13, 2022 · Rated PG, 1 hour 37 minutes. Hank, voiced by Michael Cera, is a hapless dog who finds himself recruited to protect the cat village of Kakamucho (them’s the jokes, folks) from being destroyed by ...
