This movie is truly dreadful, although Doug’s final scene had me laughing out loud! *Strays* remains a bad film. It brings to mind *Sausage Party*, because it relies on tasteless, crude humor in an attempt to be amusing. At least that 2016 animated film deals with food, so it manages to entertain more than it should (even though it’s not particularly good). This one, considering its subject matter—dogs—and the way…

Will Forte portrays Doug, who reluctantly cares for a dog named Reggie as payback against an ex-girlfriend he was unfaithful to. Every day, Doug takes Reggie on a ball-retrieval outing before abandoning him. The dog typically returns home, necessitating longer treks, and it’s during one of these journeys that Reggie—now lost and confronting some aggressive dogs—befriends Bug. They then embark on various escapades, en…