The playful anarchy of author-illustrator Dav Pilkey's bestselling "Dog Man" series, about a hero cop who is part-man, part-police dog, is now on screen in a new animated film, with comedian Pete Davidson playing Dog Man's arch-nemesis,

The 'SNL' alum voices a villainous cat in DreamWorks' animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey's best-selling series of children's graphic novels about a half-human, half-canine police officer.

Dog Man”—starring the voices of Lil Rel Howery, Pete Davidson and Ricky Gervais—is new in theaters. Is there a scene during or after the end credits that suggests Dogman’s adventures will continue?

"Dog Man," the latest from "Captain Underpants" creator Dav Pilkey, hits theaters Friday and will delight young fans.

Hastings and team maintain the childlike illustration style of the books, with crayon lines and shading on the somewhat simply designed characters, and the colloquial, slangy writing (the law enforcement officers are “supa cops”; various important buildings are “ova there”).

“I’m a huge Dav Pilkey fan,” Davidson told CBS in the same interview. “I grew up reading all the Captain Underpants books. My mom got them for me. All the young kids in my family, they all read Dog Man, they’re obsessed with Dog Man. And then right around the time I started noticing that, we got the offer.”

Creator Dav Pilkey's quirky, kinetic world has nicely made the visual leap to the big screen, but something is missing. The Hollywoodization — like a ray blasted from a typical Pilkey lumbering robot — has leveled-out the idiosyncrasy and overstuffed the narrative. Newcomers may be stunned — and not in a good way.

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A police officer and a dog get fused into one crime-fighter in this antic, enjoyable adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s comic series.

Dav Pilkey’s superhero-satirizing graphic novel series gets a kinetic adaptation.

It's hard to believe, but as author and Illustrator Dav Pilkey recently told students at Boy's Prep in the Bronx, he created Dog Man back when he was in second grade. "He looks a little bit ...

The playful anarchy of author and illustrator Dav Pilkey's bestselling "Dog Man ... and with comedian Pete Davidson, who voices Dog Man's arch-nemesis, Petey the Cat.