Typically, movies that focus on pee, poop, puke and penis jokes are not my favorites. However, when a film has those jokes and it is funny, I can excuse that style of jokes.

Strays is not an example of that. I found little funny about this movie.

Cruel owner Doug (Will Forte) hated the little dog Reggie (Will Farrell) that he got to impress a girl. When the girl was gone, he would try to dump the dog in different locations, but Reggie always found his way back home. When Doug took him to the city and deserted him, Reggie met other stray dogs, Bug (Jamie Foxx), Maggie (Isla Fisher) and Hunter (Randall Park) who befriend Reggie.

There were a couple of potentially funny moments in the film, but all the one that were potentially funny were shown in the trailers. The rest of the film may have had a couple of chuckles, but nothing that were worthy of laughs.

I will also say that the voice acting was spot on for these characters, which one would expect from the talented crew doing this work. I also thought the relationships between the four strays were solid and developed well, providing some good moments of heart to he story.

It was just too crude in many instances and the crude humor was just not funny. Because of that, it felt to be too dull of a story and the unfunny bits were more corny and disappointing than anything else.

It was a short run time, yet I felt like I was ready for it to be done early on. There were some good character moments, but nothing that held any real depth to it. when the crude jokes did not hit, which was most of the time, the film had little else to fall back on.

2 stars