A dimwit actor and his sarcastic dog unknowingly become superhero's.

'A Boy and His Dog' (1975) meets 'Greatest American Hero' (1981)

100 min.

SYNOPSIS:

Fred house sits for a scientist that’s traveling to Stockholm. The scientist doesn’t want the dog inside and has built the dog a larger than normal house that’s climate controlled and has automatic water and food dispensers. Fred begins his task of maintaining the home and runs into trouble with a bully neighbor. A frustrated Fred goes into the house and falls onto a tarp covered machine and accidentally activates it. He panics but all it does is build two copies of itself and appears to go dormant. He covers the machines back up and resumes his chores until he falls off of a ladder and breaks his leg. He spends 3 days in the hospital and returns to the home to find Gretchen, his dog, still in the backyard safe and sound. Upon letting Gretchen back inside, she chases him about on his crutches and he falls into the wall knocking him out cold on the machine’s tarp.

Fred wakes up with Gretchen sleeping next to him and her head resting on his belly. He now has a long beard and there is snow outside. Fred gets up and walks about as if his leg isn’t broken as he checks to find the machines are gone and both of them are covered in brown rusty dust. He sends Gretchen outside as he goes into the bathroom to check his face. At this point, he is hearing her thoughts and he puts it down as an overactive immagination, but she tells him otherwise. She finds mice in the kitchen now, and the place looks to have been neglected for a few months. In the bathroom, Fred is put off by the beard and wishes it didn’t grow out like it had. While watching in the mirror, he sees it pull itself back into his skin. He thinks he’s dreaming and Gretchen starts chasing mice in the kitchen as she comments on why humans shave.

After helping to clean the house, Gretchen is put outside and the neighbor starts throwing snowballs at her. She jumps the fence to get away and is hit by a car. Fred sees it happen through her eyes and freaks out inside. He comes out and runs through the snow, hurdles the fence, and goes to her as the car that hit her drives away. He still has the cast on. Fred watches as her wounds heal back up in no time. She comments that she sees it happen through his eyes. Fred confronts the neighbor who punches him in the nose while holding the fence. Fred bends backwards in half and springs back into the man, knocking him to the ground. Fred’s nose is broken, but goes back to normal by itself. The neighbor runs away. They go inside and the scientist returns angry that Fred hasn’t brought in the mail or shoveled the walks. He throws Fred out.

Fred drives around and gets lost. They end up back at the scientists house and sleep overnight in the doghouse. They leave and get gas, but as Fred goes inside, he asks for a hammer. The attendant mistakes his words and runs into the office, calling the police. When the police arrive, they arrest Fred and take Gretchen to the pound. It is a couple days before he is arraigned and it’s found they jumped the gun. Fred has his cast removed by the police and taken to go to find Gretchen at the pound. He then is taken to the impound yard to find his car is all but scrap since everything is stolen including the wheels. They walk off and it begins to rain.

Upset, Fred wishes he never had bones because they couldn’t break. He quickly has problems walking and falls flat on his face. Water builds up around him and he is washed down the street into a storm drain. Gretchen squeezes down into it with him and they end up in a collection trunk on a shelf with him wishing now that his bones were back and made of a titanium, carbon fiber cement alloy. The next morning, his body seems normal and they find a ladder in the wall which they climb up to find the maintenance room above that has access under a viaduct. They leave in hopes of Fred getting work in a play that is holding auditions finding that the card code door will allow him back inside. At the theater, Fred finds a line of bodybuilder types auditioning for the superhero role. Gretchen encourages him to still try. Once in line, he is hassled by the men, so he walks away. As he passes the wardrobe room, he is mistaken for the worker sent by the union.

Fred agrees to work and sees the costume, which he could never fill, and the costumer all but forces him into the changing room to try it on. Fred puts on the suit and his body enlarges to fill it like he’s monstrous. When stepping from the dressing room, he smacks his head on the door frame and ruins it. The costumer falls in love with Fred and takes him to audition, skipping the line. The director isn’t happy, but allows it. Fred tries to wing it, but gets nowhere until the butterflies in his stomach erupt as a fart that lights on fire and he is lifted into the rigging above. He comes back down and damages the stage when landing. All look on in shock. Fred is offered a follow up audition. Fred is taken to change back, and as he removes the suit, his body changes back to its normal shape. Insde the change room is a woman’s leotard and a curious Fred tries it on. His body changes to that of a young girl and his hair lengthens into pony tails. He freaks out and takes it off. Gretchen sits outside commenting that she will never forget what she’s seen.

Fred works the day out and returns with Gretchen to the viaduct hideaway with food and some clothes. They eat and fall asleep. A maintenance worker shows up and wakes them. The worker slips on the ladder down to inspect the area breaking his leg and Fred saves him by jumping up to the next level 15’ with the man in his arms. Fred and Gretchen have found that a few months have passed while they slept. Confused, they head off to return to the scientists home. On the way, a bank is being robbed. Fred is passed by the robbers as he runs inside. Gretchen notes where they are. Fred mistakenly takes out the guard. The police arrive and shoot Fred. He feels a sting and pulls the bullet from his shirt unharmed. They handcuff Fred. Gretchen tells Fred the bad guys are in a car nearby. She jumps on the trunk and the car speeds off with her digging her paws into the roof. Fred breaks the handcuffs as he points at the car with the bad guys.

Fred tells them he’ll be right back and runs off after the car in a blur. Fred chases down the car and it rear-ends another car. Gretchen is caught by Fred before she lands. The police arrive and let Fred go. They go to the scientists home where he listens to Fred’s incredulous story. They scientist checks Fred and Gretchen to find they are no longer human and dog, but machines that his Nano-bot creating machine had accidentally infested them without programming. During the last part of the testing, Fred sticks an internet cable into his mouth because the scientist wants to somehow hook it to Fred. Fred instantly downloads massive amounts of information and is knocked out. Gretchen licks his face and a spark transfers information to her waking him up. She is knocked for a loop and suddenly changes into a more human albeit sexy form, understanding how Fred had changed before. Fred freaks out as she climbs onto him and he doesn’t understand whats going on. The scientist finally believes everything and tries to help Fred understand his new powers, but it seems to be difficult. Gretchen seems to catch on very quickly and they leave to go out and fight crime as Nano-man and Good girl.