A FAMILY LEARNS IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS FROM THEIR ADORABLE, BUT NAUGHTY AND NEUROTIC DOG.When a dog wriggles his adorable rear end into a human’s life, the human will never be the same. And both Marley, the dog, and Marley & Me, the movie, manage to endear themselves deeply despite a few wee flaws. Readers of the John Grogan bestseller already know the raffish charm of the incorrigible yellow lab puppy, Marley, adopted by Grogan and his wife because she’s “never seen anything more adorable in my life.” But Grogan’s simple tale of love, in all its forms, shines on the big screen, thanks to deft comic turns by Jennifer Aniston–in top form here–and Owen Wilson. Their chemistry is utterly natural and believable as Marley’s owners, as is their interaction with the very naughty but ultimately irresistible Marley. As Marley grows up, the film follows his escapades–flunking out, spectacularly, from puppy training at the hands of a wickedly funny Kathleen Turner. And as Marley grows up, John and Jenny build their life together and weather some tough emotional blows. Like My Dog Skip, which it resembles in its affection for its subject, Marley & Me is a tear-jerker, but in the sweetest, most lovely way–because it, and its four-legged star, have wriggled into our hearts. Good boy. –A.T. Hurley
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March 23, 2008
#1
Here’s a movie that promises in every way to be a family experience but unfortunately has no idea what it really wants to be. I’m still wondering exactly which part of Marley’s life should have endeared us to him as he spends 100% of the time destroying something. That his owners decided to ever let him inside the house is astounding. That they ever found a reason not to give him away must have been explained in the movie’s deleted scenes. I guess if they had actually bought a good dog they would have formally adopted him into their family (at least). I still can’t believe the makers of MARLEY & ME thought it was a good idea to show us Jennifer Aniston’s dreaded ultrasound results in progress. One of this days they should also explain to us what was the point of showing Marley being being put to sleep in wide detail, I thought I was watching DEAD MAN WALKING (or in this case, DEAD DOG WALKING). I guess the best way to describe this movie is as a biography of Marley’s owner and frankly a bio about the writer of a newspaper column about dogs is hardly earth-shattering. I found funny how Owen Wilson was always shown depressed, even when he got the dream job, wife, kids, house with the pool & million dollar home in Pennsylvania. This is really not a movie for kids, unless you want to spend plenty of time afterwards explaining the sadder aspects of life.
March 23, 2008
#2
We ordered this version and found that the second disc would play on our TV, but the movie would not play.
So we tried it on all our computers, same problem would not play on any of them.
Though it would import into iTunes, but what good is that, if your grandkids want to watch the movie on your 40 inch TV.
So its no good to us, though in tiny print on the back of the box, it does say that it will play on ‘portable digital movie players’, so I am donating this to our library.
And we bought a new TV compatible version of Marley and Me at our local WalMart.
I suggested to Amazon rep. that a warning please be placed on the Amazon ordering site for this particular movie, so that people will not fall into the trap that I did.
Jane
March 23, 2008
#3
I have not read the original book, but this movie is the stupidest film I have seen in a long time. The subject, the dog, is a jerk with no redeeming feature whatsoever – at least none demonstrated by the film. This movie is nearly two hours long, spends about an hour and forty minutes demonstrating what a worthless turd he is, and then its final 15 minutes showing the family inexplicably decompensating as he – whom the family has heretofore always regarded as a pain – dies. (And good riddance, I say.) The tear-jerking doesn’t work, because the dog has never been shown to have a single redeeming feature. In any other country in the world, this destructive, stupid, untrainable, unlovable animal would have been eaten about 30 minutes into the film. Then you could have used the next hour and a half of your life for something productive, like looking at a blank wall.
March 24, 2008
#4
We all know that movies will always have the best clips put together for their ads to get you to go. However, THIS movie was FLAT OUT DECEIVING. Big time case of false advertising. I had the unfortunate experience of watching my own dog go through a horrible death and being with him when he had to be put down. I did NOT want to relive that experience through watching a movie that was advertised to be a COMEDY. It is NOT a comedy AT ALL. I don’t like to put spoilers or ruin endings to movies in reviews, however I think it’s important to warn people to NOT watch this movie unless they want to watch in detail a dog being euthanized. It’s terrible that they would put that scene in a movie, and it is absolutely not okay AT ALL that they would put it in a movie that they’re advertising as a comedy and a family movie.
March 24, 2008
#5
This movie, I thought, was going to be a movie about a dog and his family. Well, not by any means is this a family movie, nor a “DOG” movie. It is more about a man, and his life. It was sad, and through most of the movie if Marley is in it, they are talking about how, “bad” he is. Not recommend.