Down Dog

The laddish humour undercuts director Andres Dussan's stated attempt to "use mainstream comedy to raise awareness of this sad reality" of fatherless families.

Ultimately, the premise is absurd and repellent, and Durr's gurning performance doesn't help.

Though the comedy is surrealist in parts, and exaggerated in others, this remains an intimate study of one man getting all of his affairs in order.

One or two of the more serious father/son scenes pass muster, but emotional truths are few and far between.

For what's clearly trying to be a bad-mannered sex comedy, there's nothing particularly rude or funny here

There's almost nothing cinematic about Down Dog, which might've felt more at home in a television slot.