The Underdoggs

There’s still a surprising amount of fun to be had, mostly because The Underdoggs allows the neighborhood and its inhabitants to shine, and everyone is clearly having a blast in this shiny commercial...

If you love Snoop's acting, you'll enjoy “The Underdoggs.” Otherwise, don't bother.

Yes, his thespian range may be pretty limited, but there’s no denying Snoop has a palpable onscreen charisma and a good sense of comic timing that director Charles Stone III skilfully directs around.

While enjoying something like The Underdoggs requires a certain mindset (or maybe a slightly altered one), it's another example that there's still a place for broad comedies, even when they operate from the most familiar of playbooks.

Not good but I love that 30 years after Snoop Dogg was deemed a terrible influence on me. I can share this movie casting him as a role model with my kids.

“The Underdoggs” isn’t memorable, but it is a bit of fun for an afternoon. You could even multitask while watching it and not miss a beat.

Now, I know this movie will not be for everyone. I expect this to be considered a bad movie. For me, as a movie that’s on streaming, it was a good time. It reminds me of direct-to-DVD movies that were rampant in the 2000s until streaming took over.

This is less about proving that Snoop is a good actor and more about showing what a force of charisma he can be with his unique screen presence.

Everyone loves an underdog story, as this film's characters themselves affirm, but Snoop deliberately buries the heart of his tale under layers of intentionally edgy material.

No film in this genre has slinked as low, run as slow, or failed to give it a real go as The Underdoggs, as much a sports drama as an excuse to force child actors to curse and pretend to get drunk.