The Pet Detective was theatrically released on 16 October and received positive reviews from critics and audience alike, who praised the cast performances (especially of Sharaf U Dheen, Joemon and Anupama Parameswaran), humor, music, screenplay, editing and direction.
The film was announced on 7 April 2024 through the Instagram page of Sharaf U Dheen Productions and The Pet Detective Movie. The cast with Sharaf U Dheen himself and Anupama Parameswaran was revealed on the same day.[6]
Filming
Principal photography of the film was wrapped after 83 days,[7] of shooting on 4 September 2024.[8][9]
Marketing
A new poster was released on the lead actor's birthday.[7] The film’s production house announced a giveaway challenge of iPhone 17 as a part of promotion. The task was to take a screenshot from the song "Tharalitha Yaamam" and create an AI created retro styled image and tag them for participating on the giveaway. The winners should’ve been announced on its release date but was postponed to October 26.
Certification
The Film received a U certificatation from CBFC and a 12A viewing rights from bbfc with rating of moderate violence, threat, injury detail and implied strong language[10].
Ajith of Manorama Online gave a positive response, stating that "the film is an entertaining fun ride for the whole family, similar to films like C.I.D. Moosa".[12] Vivek Santhosh of Cinema Express gave 3/5 stars, stating that "the film is very much chaotic, but an amusing comic caper" and "follows gleeful absurdity and slapstick rhythm of C.I.D. Moosa and Vettam, though not matching their flair, but funny enough to keep the audience engaged".[13] Anjaidas NT of Mathrubhumi stated that "the film mixes action and comedy equally and gives us a chain comedy film, that was missing from Malayalam films for a long time", and that "the movie is a non stop laughter and guffaw ride, that entertain[sic] everyone". He concluded that "actor Sharaf U Dheen has now became the first choice for film makers, who tries action comedy films".[14] SR Praveen of The Hindu reviewed the film as "a moderately funny template comic book caper, in a screenplay that has interesting bits of several characters brought in at various junctures, but each with a backstory". He concluded that "the high point of the film is the climax set in a theme park, where all characters gets gloriously mixed up, like a Priyadarshan film".[15]
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