Tibetan sheep dogs have protected their valley from the wolves over the years. Bodi (Luke Wilson) is expected to follow his father's footsteps. One day, a crate falls out of a passing plane. Bodi finds a radio among the stuff and he is taken immediately with the rock music idolizing rock god Angus Scattergood. He leaves the valley for the big city to follow his dream. Wolf leader Linnux orders his kidnapping. I didn't realize that this is a Chinese animation with the western looking DVD cover. I thought that this was a second tier kids' movie. I don't mind the Chinese village motif at the beginning and then Bodi leaves for a big generic city. That's when the possible interesting Chinese animation turns completely generic and forgettable. There is a bit of timeless fun and magic about the village, and later actual magic from his music. The movie would work much better to stay in the village and stay with the fun timeless magic. It should be one thing or another. Honestly, I didn't realize that the village exists in the modern world. It spends enough time building the world of the valley that it loses the fun once Bodi goes to the modern city. It's really two different world that exists in two different movies. Otherwise, it's a generic animation of generic characters doing generic things.

I'm usually not the one to complain if a movie is unoriginal, but there is a limit. When a movie becomes so unoriginal, so cliched, and so dull, that I have to criticize. Sometimes it provokes anger, most of the time, it provokes bordom. Rock Dog is most certainly in the latter category. This 80 minute experience, felt 20 minutes longer than it should, and that's because Rock Dog is dull as hell. This movie is so unimpressive and so basic and bland, that even though the quality just might be mediocre, most people will dislike this movie. Even the animation feels like it was made for DVD, it's not Norm of the North bad, this movie is just boring and dull. Some positives? The music and voice acting is very good, so if you want to watch this movie for the cast, then I can't blame you, but as a movie to enjoy, it's not enjoyable and it's boring. There is one more thing I would like to talk about in this movie, that is one of the only things of note. The last 5 minutes, which is by far the worst part of the movie, and the only part that got a real reaction out of me. Where the main character, finds out he can shoot lasers out of his guitar, straight out of nowhere. He saves the day, dance party ending and done. This scene is completely out of place, and just left me confused. So overall, Rock Dog isn't terrible, it's not even bad, but it's underwhelming and boring. The Cast is good, the songs are good (and on YouTube) the ending is bad, and that's all I can remember. Recommendation Rating - Not Worth it Quality Rating - Alright Entertaining Rating - BoringFinal Rating - 5/10

Yeah, just like what we say in our country on 'made in China', a poor and cheap quality product. It seems they never ever see the bright side in this business (making products). This is the Sino-US collaboration product and as usual the film was too poor. The animation was much better than some of the B animation features. But the universe was too small, or you can say restricted for certain enclosure makes it fall in as a bad film. That's when you observe the backgrounds, you would notice how substandard it is.Visually and basic storyline seems not much different from other animated flicks. Because it kind of reminded me many awesome films from the recent past like it either be ' Kung Fu Panda' or 'Zootopia'. All about chasing the impossible dream and an inspiring theme. But still I believe the little kids like under 6-7 might enjoy it. Yeah, this is definitely not for the grown ups like most of the modern animated films are. That's a sad part, yet some adult would find it better.The film was built on the most common clichéd platform. A young Tibetan sheepdog is not interested in what his kind destined to do. Instead, he's very much into the musics and after inspired by what the famous musician said, he embarks a journey that would decide his fate. So how his life going to change comes with the remaining parts. There were some nice comedies, but nothing tried hard to uplift film. From the beginning itself, it was so familiar, which did not give any space for a better improvement in the later parts. An average film, maybe below that, yet watchable one. Short film though, with the nice music.4/10

Cool animation, ranging from the effect of a very real dress, when the character was running his shirt was crumpled, but only 1 the shortcomings of other people do not interact with the main players in the city, The best voice, world or effects that are very detailed than any other animation