# There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489 "2007-08-05T05:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/21 "2007-08-06T14:54:33Z")
I don’t plan on seeing this. Like was mentioned above, Underdog isn’t a dog like a pet dog, he’s a dog in a world where it’s natural for dogs to interact with humans as equals. Not only that, but until I here him speak in rhyme, it’s not the movie for me. > [@](#): > > When Polly’s in trouble, I am not slow! > It’s up! UP! UP! and away I go! > > It’s not bird, nor plain, nor even frog! > It’s little ol me… Under Dog! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/22 "2007-08-06T15:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] I’ll go see it if it has a Go Go Gophers episode included. [/QUOTE] [Commander McBragg] Quite. [/Commander McBragg] ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/23 "2007-08-06T16:33:55Z")
I loved the cartoon underdog. Quite perversly I also loved this movie. If I were going to take the original cartoon and put it in a real world with real people and try to make some weird sense of “underdogedness”, this is the movie I would make. Except I would have put Overcat in somewhere. And if you haven’t gone, wait for the end for all the doggy pictures and the upbeat Underdog theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/24 "2007-08-06T17:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] Don’t you wish you were at the meeting where that idea got the green light? [/QUOTE] I mean, you could probably get high for a week just by taking one breath in there… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/25 "2007-08-06T18:23:45Z")
I went with my 9 year old to see this and fully expected it to be an abortion of a movie. Isn’t that what August is all about: The slush fund of movies? It was light, airy, pedestrian and sterlized. I think the highlight, for me, was the villians. Peter Dinklage did a great job with what he had and his evil but slow side kick, is my favorite voice actor. Patrick Warburton. His voice is rawrrrrrrrrr. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t good. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/26 "2007-08-06T18:39:50Z")
[Perfect timing.](http://www.pvponline.com/article/3413/thu-jul-05?y=) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/27 "2007-08-06T19:11:33Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] What city does the actual movie take place in? I’ve seen billboards with either the San Francisco or New York City skyline on it. [/QUOTE] My friend who lives there part-time tells me it was filmed in Providence, RI, but I’m not sure what city Underdog is supposed to live in, or if it is just a generic city. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/28 "2007-08-06T21:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=Enright3] I don’t plan on seeing this. Like was mentioned above, Underdog isn’t a dog like a pet dog, he’s a dog in a world where it’s natural for dogs to interact with humans as equals. Not only that, but until I hear him speak in rhyme, it’s not the movie for me. [/QUOTE] He does, in fact, rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/29 "2007-08-06T22:17:21Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] The Dope is my Shepherd, I shall not want. It maketh me to know good stuff. It leadeth me to the True Vision. It restoreth me in the paths of righteousness in Cecil’s name. Yea as I walk through through Valley of the Shadow of Hollywood, I shall fear no evil, for Thy Ideas and Thy Faith they comfort me. Thou preparest for me a film in the presence of mine enemies. Thou fill up my head with pop culture, my brains runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Geek for ever. [/QUOTE] Fucking brilliant! I am soooo saving this for future use, referenced to you of course. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/30 "2007-08-06T22:23:13Z")
That’s the first thing I told my husband when I saw the coming attraction. “But he’s a shoeshine boy with a girlfriend, not a dog dog!” I haven’t seen the movie but it doesn’t seem right. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/31 "2007-08-06T22:36:31Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] He does, in fact, rhyme. [/QUOTE] If rhyming there will be, this movie I will see! There is no need to fight, Netflix makes the cost all right. Still - his ring I wish he’d fill, with an Underdog Super Energy Pill. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/32 "2007-08-07T00:14:09Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Still - his ring I wish he’d fill, with an Underdog Super Energy Pill. [/QUOTE] Ah, the good old days- when heroes would get an extra pick-me-up when they were in trouble: Underdog, Popeye, Barry Bonds… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/33 "2007-08-07T00:59:51Z")
Not simply rhyme. Doggerel. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/34 "2007-08-07T01:31:45Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Fucking brilliant! I am soooo saving this for future use, referenced to you of course. [/QUOTE] Feel free. We are communists of talent here, are we not? I’m humbled by your praise. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/35 "2007-08-07T12:01:02Z")
[QUOTE=DrFidelius] Not simply rhyme. Doggerel. [/QUOTE] 😃 Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/36 "2007-08-14T21:49:23Z")
I watched it being made all summer last year and watched the movie itself on Friday. While it sucked really hard, I did enjoy seeing my building in a few scenes and noticing the scenes I had watched being filmed last year. Providence stood in for “Capital City” btw. Some of the weird things were that the “skyline” of Providence stood behind the state house and that the state house looked like it was sitting in the middle of Kennedy Plaza. As an aside, when I was a little girl I was not allowed to say Simon Bar Sinister because my mom was all into Jewish history. What a dope. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489/37 "2007-08-16T03:22:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] …I’m also sad that as talented an actor as Peter Dinklage is he has to settle for playing Simon Bar Sinister (a character whose [cooly allusive name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_bar_Kokhba) I didn’t get until I wrote my history thesis many years later)… [/QUOTE] A bar (or barre) sinister is also a heraldic term for the symbol (often) appearing on the coat of arms of a bastard, dynastically speaking, IIRC. So the _Underdog_ villain’s name is a double pun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-no-need-to-fear-underdog-is-here/414489.md?page=1)