“K-9” is apparently a police comedy but I certainly didn’t find it to be funny. The film feels like a cheap by-product of the time that is simply trying to make money instead of trying to entertain like it should be doing.

In “K-9”, we get a basic story that seems to rip-off “Beverly Hills Cop” as police officer Dooley (James Belushi “Red Heat”) tries to stop wealthy businessman Lyman (Kevin Tighe “Another 48hrs”), who is actually a drug lord. In order to catch this crafty criminal Dooley gets help from a police dog named Jerry Lee but the two don’t exactly get along.

I don’t find anything about the character Dooley or the performance from James Belushi amusing in the slightest. He also doesn’t seem very good at playing a police officer as he lacks the charisma of Eddie Murphy (“Beverly Hills Cop”), Arnold Schwarzenegger (“Kindergarten Cop”) and Clint Eastwood (“Dirty Harry”). The dog isn’t funny. The chemistry between the two is awful as Dooley talks to Jerry Lee as if he were a human instead of an animal, which just makes the film stupid. The bad guys are standard. The other characters feel very formula driven and none of them will leave an impression.

“K-9” is a woefully unfunny comedy film and it barely resembles a police film. The pairing of a police officer with a dog isn’t really a good idea in my books but I expected it to be done better. The film feels very unoriginal as it blatantly steals from a variety of police films but the problem is it doesn’t do anything better than we’ve seen it before. It’s not funny, the police aspect isn’t thrilling, the idea of a cop and a dog working together isn’t really very good and all-round it feels slapdash. “K-9” is a movie that should not just be skipped but ignored entirely.