l33tminion | Laser Pointer Emporium

Yesterday afternoon, we all went out to see Dogman, and if you're looking for a kid's movie to see with your kid, it's a pretty good one. It struck me as the sort of movie that takes its ridiculous premise, plays that seriously, and then plays that for laughs. It had more than an expected share of genuinely heartwarming moments for a story with such simplistic plots and characters. The one thing I found a bit jarring was in some of the more dynamic scenes the depth of field seemed somehow off. It's a bit hard to describe but my guess was that some of the editing done in service of 3D cinema that didn't work in 2D, or to put it another way, if you're constantly hiding jokes in the background, it's a little jarring to have those be out of focus. For some reason, the joke that most stuck with me was a montage midway through of increasingly absurd answers to "places to find a lost cat".