Robo-Dog (2015)

There's no reason to sugarcoat this, Robo-Dog is truly awful. The acting starts at an incredibly low level in the opening scene and never makes an effort to stretch beyond that. Wallace Shawn is an actor you've seen in many films this poor, where he plays characters this transparent, but even he must have questioned whether it's worth turning up to the office. Speaking of the office, the scenes claiming to be shot in his high-tech research laboratory were done on such a cheap scale that even children's science programmes look more convincing.
Plot spoiler ahead.....the real dog, imaginatively called Dog, dies, through overheating in a hot attic, trapped whilst chasing a ball. The scene is done with so little explanation that whilst it's clear, after the event, that the dog is dead, the film chooses to dance around it for fear of touching on a serious topic.
The only redeeming feature in the entire debacle is the installation of vacuum in the dog's butt, but that merely emphasises the level the film is operating at.

Adult score: 1/5
Child score: 3/5
First thing the child said when the film finished: Speechless