Rock Dog

A Tibetan mastiff (voiced by Luke Wilson) feels unfulfilled in the family business of guarding sheep against predatory wolves—so he moves to the big city to become a rock musician. Director Ash Brannon’s résumé includes such Pixar classics as A Bug’s Life and the first two Toy Storys, but you’d never guess he’d even seen a Pixar movie, much less worked on one. The script he concocted with a mind-boggling nine other writers is a cockamamie nonstory, the characters are boring, the animation is shoddy, the gags aren’t even worth groaning at and the music is worthless junk. For that matter, so is the movie, an excruciating, unendurable stinker from first frame to last. Wilson and a handful of celebrity voices (J.K. Simmons, Sam Elliott, Eddie Izzard, Mae Whitman, Lewis Black, Matt Dillon) labor in vain. J.L.