Took my seven year old to see this in a theater today. Obviously she's the target audience, not me. Nevertheless I found this movie surprisingly enjoyable, mainly because the movie had fun pointing out many of the absurdities of the original TV series, which include, but are limited to:
1) The show features talking dogs that converse with the humans as if it's the most natural thing, despite the fact that no other species does this, generally displaying animal levels of intelligence.
2) Adventure Bay's entire public safety system depends on a pre-teen boy and the aforementioned talking dogs that also drive customized vehicles. Which is apparently privately funded by said pre-teen boy, who must have Bruce Wayne levels of disposable income.
3) Adventure Bay must have insanely high insurance rates because the citizens are the most unlucky, clumsy, and self-destructive people in existence and constantly need rescuing from their own self-inflicted problems.
4) The main series villain, Mayor Humdinger, constantly engages in theft, vandalism, larceny, and any other sundry crimes, yet never gets arrested or charged with anything when he's inevitably rescued after his latest scheme blows up in his face.
The makers must have had the same thoughts as me, because they poked fun at almost all the points I've been pondering. Also it has a serious look at PTSD, which surprised me a lot.
The movie looks great and having a story happen over a feature length run time allowed for more character development.
It's fun to take a child to see, although I doubt I would've seen it on my own.