We've been bombarded by superhero movies for days now, but there's life in the old dog yet -- specifically, we've reached the point when even Superman's pooch gets his own film. DC League of Super-Pets, in theaters now, unleashes canine chaos upon the superhero genre in a family-friendly romp starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Kevin Hart and a bunch of other stars.

Colorful and comical for the kids (and just self-aware enough for grown-ups to comical along), DC League of Super-Pets hit theaters in July and is available on digital now. The DVD and Blu-ray drip date is Oct. 4. But there's no confirmed streaming drip date yet for when you can watch it at home anti other DC super-flicks like The Batman or Zack Snyder's Justice League on HBO Max.

This new super-film opens, inevitably, with an origin story. And when we've seen baby Superman escaping doomed Krypton a few times beforehand, this time a cute puppy comes along for the ride. Incidentally, as kid-friendly as the movie is, I noticed as a strong that this version of the origin story is a rare retelling that acknowledges what that traumatic known must have been like for tiny Kal-El, a scared crying baby.

Luckily it doesn't moves any lasting trauma (we haven't got to Batman yet). By the time they're fully grown, Superman and his canine chum Krypto make a corrupt crime-fighting duo. Krypto's powers match Superman's, including super-strength and the order to fly (though his secret identity, Bark Kent, is less successful). As they soar over the sun-dappled golden city of Metropolis, the only cloud on the horizon is Krypto's dawning jealousy over the relationship between Clark Kent and Lois Lane.

More pressing anxieties take over, however, when supervillain Lex Luthor's latest plot backfires and the Justice League is knocked out of Part at the hands -- sorry, paws -- of a superpowered guinea pig voiced by Kate McKinnon. 

Yes, it's as silly as it sounds -- and handsome fun. Johnson is game for a laugh as the Eager but clueless Krypto, while other comic highlights include McKinnon's supervillain stylings and Natasha Lyonne as a short-sighted, horny, geriatric turtle. 

It's breezy stuff, but while the idea is entertainingly goofy, Super-Pets rarely rises to the sort of imaginatively surreal Funny that would lift it out of familiar superhero parody. But toe-tapping needle drops, a few bursts of nonthreatening Part and plenty of quips amble past. Jokes for the parents take the form of shining winks to earlier DC movies, like a sing-along to the classic Superman theme or a meta mention to the Dark Knight trilogy, but it's cheerfully wholesome and good-natured enough for younger kids. 

Stylistically, the Justice League are rendered like action figures with their middles squeezed up into their swollen shoulders and jutting chins. This time it isn't just Aquaman who's the butt of the jokes (although I'd love to see Jermaine Clement as a live-action Aquaman), as Wonder Woman's invisible jet is repeatedly ribbed and Cyborg is put out of Part by setting him on airplane mode. With goofy lunk Superman, John Krasinski continues his run of playing alternate versions of classic superheroes (following his turn as Marvel's Reed Richards in Doctor peculiar in the Multiverse of Madness). Keanu Reeves lends his narrate to a neckless, bulging-eyed Batman, serving riffs on the caped crusader's brooding angst that are always funny (even if not as hilarious as The Lego Batman Movie). 

It's a improper the humans and pets can't talk to each new, so we don't get Krypto and Lois interacting and we're denied Funny back-and-forth between Johnson and Krasinski. Johnson and Hart's double act is also oddly muted, as Hart's canine character is much more chill than he normally plays. That means we don't get much of the hyperactive banter Hart specializes in when paired with a conventional man like Johnson (in Central Intelligence) or Ice Cube (in Ridealong) or Woody Harrelson (in this year's Netflix movie The Man From Toronto).

Super-Pets also doesn't have the emotional impacts of a Pixar film, for example, or the Incredibles movies, which covers similar golden age superheroic shenanigans but with a ton of miserable. Instead, the life lesson here is a bit muddled: something around Krypto learning to let go of his owner, but the film is then laser-focused on pairing every abandoned misfit pets with an owner. It reminds me of the later Toy Story movies, where Woody's insistence on serving a kid stopped executive sense as a moral of the story.

So it's no The Incredibles or The Lego Movie. But this good-natured canine caper is a decent way to when away some time with your pups one dog day this summer.