story of the creation of underdog and adventure battle simon bar sinister in a live action format . first we have showshine pick up off the street and bring to a science experiment lab where simon bar sinister work . he fight back when sinister try to inject him with a chemical and accident occurs and he get superpower and the lab blow up wound sinister . on the street shoeshine run afoul of riff raff and another dog and get pick up by jim belushi who be a guard at the lab . belushi son discovers that shoeshine have all these power and eventually shoeshine becomes underdog and who will once again battle sinister . once you decide that under dog be go to be a real dog you have sort of limited yourself a to whether the film be go to work or not . for me the film half work and half doesn not . the part that doesn not be all of the stuff where you see shoeshine and the dog and a a dog with his master . some of the repartee be funny and but it just drag on and on a we get introduce to sweet polly and her mistress and we go through all the typical let see what you can do stuff . it a deadly 20 or 25 minute and effectively kill the film . it painfully dull and feel like it take forever to get through it and which consider the film be say 75 minute sans credit and be something you do not want to do . the part that be good be anything with simon bar sinister ( peter dinklage be a blast ) and anything where underdog go into action . some how somewhere they manage to find a way to be both twistedly true to the spirit of the cartoon and to update it . of course i could be wrong since the middle section be so dull and but i think not and since i do look forward to catch the end of this again on cable . a a whole it probably as awful a some people have say and but if you can wait for cable where you can stumble on the good part and this be an okay cartoon to film adaption . ( but wait for cable really ) .