Marley & Me

Dreadful, Sentimental Pap, 25 July 2009

Author: gary-444 from United Kingdom


Contrived, manufactured formulaic nonsense.This film is an object lesson in how Hollywood can go so wrong on what should be sound ingredients.Leads Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston are attractive and talented.Unfortunately the dialogue they are served up by the scriptwriters is banal drivel with a cute Labrador all that there is to maintain any level of interest.

Aniston and Owen offer no comic or personal chemistry, instead they labour valiantly through as clunky a script as you have ever seen.Set pieces come ad go raising the odd smile and that is your lot.It fails as a comedy.It fails as a romance and fails as a "Dog Movie". This is no "Lassie" or "Benji".

A moving finale, more cynical than a Michael Jackson funeral service is effective, yet coldly manipulates the viewers emotions. An antiseptic tear-jerker, and a resounding miss