After everything that just took place, Neve decided to ride the motorcycle with the delivery guy who was delivering the food.She has left her kids again, but this time she left the four of them and not just Carl and Dione. The ending shows that it is almost impossible to view Neve as the victim in all of this.
The final shot of The Strays sees Carl, Dione, Sebastian and Abigail all standing together, now all linked by a similar abandonment. Could a future movie see the now-expanded group of strays track down whoever Neve has changed herself into now?
With the help of several other genius dogs, he discovers his own sense of self-worth and finally takes Doug down in the most brutal way possible: By ripping off Doug's genitals. The ending of Strays is a shocking one.
Strays is a 2023 American comedy film directed by Josh Greenbaum and written by Dan Perrault. The film follows an abandoned dog (voiced by Will Ferrell) who teams up with several strays (voiced by Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher, and Randall Park) to get revenge on his abusive owner (Will Forte).
Reggie also meets Bug's dog-park friends: Hunter (voiced by Randall Park), a Great Dane who continues to wear a cone to calm his nerves, and Maggie (voiced by Isla Fisher), an Australian Shepherd with a bloodhound's sense of smell.
It turns out that Carl and Dione are Neve's, or Cheryl's, kids. This shocking moment in The Strays showed us how much Neve was tired of her old life to the point where she had no problem leaving her two kids behind and on their own.
The shocking ending of The Strays exposes Neve's deceit and abandonment of her estranged children, painting her as the villain and showing the cyclical nature of trauma. Neve's departure at the end signifies the collapse of her idealized life and the beginning of a new cycle of trauma for her children.
Told from a constantly shifting perspective, The Strays eventually reveals the true identity of the pair: They're Carl and Dione, Neve's children from her abusive relationship who were left behind with their aunt 20 years ago.
Doug finally confessing to Reggie that he doesn't love him as he's about to kill him with a baseball bat. Doug is the main antagonist of the 2023 adult comedy film Strays.
Strays does have a post-credits scene, which comes at the midway point of the credits sequence, offering audiences an additional scene for a few more laughs. The mid-credits scene is worth waiting for, providing viewers with one or two extra laughs before concluding their watch of the R-rated comedy.
Fortunately for Strays 2, the film most likely won't have to deal with the scheduling issues that the original has had as Strays' release date was pushed up to August 2023 after initially being slated for earlier in the year.
Much like fellow British thriller I Came By, The Strays is getting an unintentionally timely release as Neve's story has ties to mental health struggles and an abusive relationship, topics that have become more prevalent over the past few years.
), Australian shepherd Maggie (Isla Fisher) and a Great Dane named Hunter (Randall Park). Together, these strays embark on a journey where they encounter vicious predators, animal control officers and even some mind-altering mushrooms.
Considering the hallucination she experiences throughout the film, they pills might be a treatment for a mental disorder. However, some Redditors have suggested that they are actually skin bleaching pills.
In the film's final chapter they invade her home, with Carl forcing Ian to bench press weights in his home gym beyond his limits, allowing them to collapse on top of him and crush him to death.
Not quite a cameo, but still an important contribution, was the Snoop Dogg track “Gz and Hustlas,” which plays over the closing credits — something Greenbaum says he knew he wanted early on. “I love Snoop — of course I wanted to get him in there,” he says.
Director Josh Greenbaum used real dogs instead of CGI canines for a more authentic feel, with 95% of the movie featuring real animals. "Strays" performed well with fans, earning a "B+" CinemaScore and a 73% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, despite mixed reviews from critics.
Wikipedia describes The Strays as a British "horror" film. I would not classify it anywhere close to horror unless you accept the hallucinations of the main character and her possible "mental illness" as real. The Strays really is an attempt at social commentary by way of revenge fantasy (a la Quentin Tarantino).
In the present day, it is revealed that Neve is Cheryl, and Carl and Dione are indeed her children. She meets them at a diner and gives them ten thousand pounds each in order to help them back on their feet as they return to London. However, Carl and Dione break into Neve's house.
The Strays' social satire is sharp enough, but its bite is softened by a messy plot and an overall lack of discipline. A wasted opportunity to entertain while making the audience think about some serious subjects, The Strays fails as social commentary or psychological thriller.
Crudely effective and effectively crude, Strays is more amusing than hilarious, but this comedy's scattershot humor is partly offset by its surprisingly big heart. Strays is funny enough to recommend as a raunchy good time -- just know that it definitely isn't for kids or the easily offended.
Later, after explaining to her family that she left Carl and Dione's father around 16 years ago, Neve drives to meet her two older children in private and reveals she walked out because their father was dangerous.
“Strays” begins on an upbeat note with narration from Ferrell as Reggie, an adorably scruffy Border terrier who's clueless to the fact that his miserable, abusive owner (Will Forte) hates him and keeps trying to abandon him.
Strong crude sexualised material involving visual comedic scenes of sexual activity involving animals such as dogs and squirrels. A man is seen masturbating vigorously on numerous occasions. Animals' genitals are seen multiple times. It's implied that Doug is a sex offender.
