My partner has been stuck on the couch due to an injury and so we've been watching a lot of potentially so-bad-it's-funny stuff we found on streaming services. And, while looking through Peacock, we found a promising movie that... didn't even have a preview thumbnail with the name of the film on it. We clicked it out of curiosity and were met with a sure sign something good was coming: they spelled the word "Groundhog" wrong on the title card.
The plot is so convoluted it borders on nonsensical. There's some badly animated groundhog with precognition, what I think is an aardvark, and a reindeer who I guess is one of Santa's helpers or something? Whatever the case, his voice is awful. Dude sounds like he's perpetually drooling. The plot involves some CEO not wanting to lose money on booking the world's worst rapper after the titular Dave predicts the end times, so he builds a weather controlling antenna and recruits a dog he saved from a no-kill shelter and what looks like somebody's WoW characters, to... beat up Dave? And I guess do construction? He's very vague; he just recites his evil plan, the dog offers to bust kneecaps, and the evil CEO says "don't do that" and then... later on the dog takes a swing at the reindeer.
The dialogue is awful. The animations are bad. They don't want to spend the time actually animating anything beyond stock animations so about half of the movie occurs off screen and then the characters will be like, "WOW. I CANT BELIEVE WE DID X AND Y AND Z AND SAVED (REDACTED)!" And you just have to imagine what occurred.
Characters just show up and leave constantly. There's inexplicable humans. There's a background horse with a full-size horse head and a teeny tiny body. There's a psychic tree. Its eyes will haunt my dreams.
Definite recommendation. It's awful. Hilariously so.
