The Pet Man

The Pet Man is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy film produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is directed by TBA and written by TBA. Set in a reality where humans are treated as pets, the film follows a pet human named Gary who gets shipped off to another world leading up to a unexpected and harsh adventure while meeting a new friend who happens to be a middle aged dog who makes an experiment to travel to the modern current world.

The film was released on December 15, 2006 and received generally mixed reviews who praised the concept as well as animation and performances but criticized the screenplay and the pacing. The film later gained a huge cult following as well as internet following with retrospective reviews calling it one of the best animated MGM films. It also spawned a television series titled Pet Man: City Life airing on Fox Family from 2013 to 2017.

A sequel titled Pet Man 2 is currently in production and scheduled to be released on October 25, 2024.

Cast

 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Gary, a 21-year-old young human being who is separated from his dog owner. Unlike most domestic human pets, he is able to care for himself without his owner.
 * John Goodman as Dr. Cactus Neutron, a diminutive anamorphic dog who happens to be a scientist. He happens to be curious into finding out a way to get into the human world where dogs are in the pet world and happens to find Gary.
 * Bokeem Woodbine as Jon Simmons, a humongous, threatening, duplicitous, selfish, and extremely intelligent human being with African decent who is the most famous scientist in the world after supposedly finding out about the origin of dogs. He is mostly liked in the human world as well as the dog world and is shown to be a trickster in the film as well.
 * William Devane as William Duke, a short-tempered old man who owns Duplex Inc, the scientific factory and company that Jon Simmons works for. He praises and compliments Simmons believing that he has found out the biggest mystery in life while mentioning he has gave this company more money too.
 * Cree Summer as Teresa Moore, a brown pitbull who is the girlfriend of Dr. Neutron.
 * Jon Lovitz
 * Ben Affleck as Bozo, a security guard who shows a huge hatred against Jon Simmons and eventually attacks him.
 * Sean Hayes
 * Katt Williams
 * Joe Pantoliano
 * Tom Kenny
 * John DiMaggio
 * Frank Welker as Reggie, a pet dog who has limited vocabulary saying random things like pizza or mummy. Welker also provides the various animal sounds in the film as well

Development
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Animation
The animation services for the film were provided at Blur Studio in Culver City, California. The traditionally-animated 2D sequences were provided by Rough Draft Studios in South Korea.

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Box office
The Pet Man grossed $120.4 million in the United States and Canada and $247.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $367.8 million.

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 142 reviews, with an average rating of 5.78/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "The Pet Man is a unique switch-a-roo story concept wise but falls short with a predictable story along with repetitive toilet humor." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the film an average score of 49 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Sequel
During a 2023 meeting, Amazon listed franchises and films that are top priorities for MGM with The Pet Man being one of them. That same day it was announced that a sequel is in development where it was revealed it was secretly in production.

TV Series
A series aired on Fox Family from 2013 to 2017. None of the voice actors from the film returned to reprise their roles.