Marley & Me (2008)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 137
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 50
Pet owners should love it, but Marley and Me is only sporadically successful in wringing drama and laughs from its scenario.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 18
Pet owners should love it, but Marley and Me is only sporadically successful in wringing drama and laughs from its scenario.
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Movie Info
Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston go to the dogs with Marley & Me, a tale of a couple embarking on the adventure of marriage, career, family, and the world's worst dog. At least that's how writer and newlywed John comes to describe his blonde lab, Marley, when he takes the puppy home and finds that the fluff-ball has an uncanny ability to eat and/or destroy just about anything. As years go by, John and his wife, Jennifer, contemplate having babies and moving across the country, while Marley grows
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Cast
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Owen Wilson
John Grogan -
Jennifer Aniston
Jenny Grogan -
Eric Dane
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Alan Arkin
Arnie Klein -
Kathleen Turner
Mrs. Kornblut -
Nathan Gamble
Patrick (Age 10) -
Haley Bennett
Lisa -
Ann Dowd
Dr. Platt -
Clarke Peters
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Finley Jacobsen
Conor (Age 8) -
Lucy Merriam
Colleen (Age 5) -
Bryce Robinson
Patrick (Age 7) -
Ben Hyland
Conor (Age 5) -
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All Critics (138) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (50) | DVD (17)
Evidently contrived and something of an ungainly hybrid, the film shares its canine protagonist's facility for wearing down your resistance.
Top CriticThe dog -- or the many dogs who play Marley through the years -- also delivers some of the funniest scenes.
I think this movie works because of the relationship on screen between Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston.
Not every book has a movie lurking in it.
Frankel turns the camera toward the canines as frequently as possible, but too often we're stuck with Wilson and Aniston's bland characters. You wonder if it might have been better to let sleeping dogs lie.
The movie is ultimately less about the pain of loss than about the way families often take shape around a pet.
Save some time; stay at home and think of your dead pets instead.
It's shaggy and scattered, but give Marley a biscuit for its realistic depiction of how powerful can be the bond between dogs and their "people."
If you like the Lassie films, or even Beethoven and Old Yeller, you'll probably find this one easy to like.
Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage
I'm fairly sure that the book and the film shared a common goal -- to make its audience sit, stay, laugh, cry, then move on -- and at those modest aspirations, the movie succeeds.
It left me crying like a five year old...
Even dog skeptics might be surprised how deftly Marley & Me adapts newspaper columnist John Grogan's book...into the equivalent of a kid's movie for adults. [Blu-ray]
Sometimes, and especially on a crummy afternoon in the middle of March, it's nice to be able to switch off and settle down to enjoying the sight of middle-class families eating well and playing together in sprawling, bucolic gardens.
...the strength of the finale effectively elevates everything that preceded it...
Marley & Me is a film of moments and many of them are cute. For anyone who has ever had a dog or a close pet, there's bound to be some connection.
The conclusion transforms at least this part of the film from sappy romance to beautifully authentic meditation on life, death and a family's love for its long-time loyal dog.
soy deihnoyn ypodeigmatika kai perissotero ap' tis proigoymenes apopeires toy, pos mporei kaneis na royfiksei entelos ti freskada, tin energeia kai tin idia ti zoi, apo ena biblio poy kseheilizei apo dayta
Directed with admirable sensitivity and spot-on populist instincts...
It is a very positive film, so it won't appeal to cynics, but it should appeal to just about everyone else.
The idea that this screen dog is so cute and lovable that everything ripped, chewed, swallowed or destroyed can merely be replaced and ignored is more out of a Stephen King reality than the world as we know it.
In the cinema, all of us tough, cynical critics had tears welling in our eyes, swallowing hard; our lips, so often curled in a cheap sneer, were now trembling, because of the same desperately sad thought: "Owen Wilson used to be really good..."
There is something wildly odd about a film that measures human happiness with the whims of a dog.
There's much more to this than just the cute dog.
My Dog Skip for people in mid-life crises, it's too talky and trouble-laden for tykes but will doubtless prove as critic-proof to dog-lovers and the stars' fans as it did in the US.
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Super Reviewer
To this extend it is just that...Wilson is a poor actor and not funny whilst Aniston is another poor actress who also isn't funny and is still like Rachel from Friends haha (doing rom-coms wont help her acting career).
The film is a gentle comedy with romantic issues hehe and is based around the owning of a dog and the main characters ensuing lives with the dog. Its not original but it is a swing which you don't really see coming as you assume its just another stupid 'beethoven' film. It is touching and made well but the main casting is poor and it shows, could of been quite good with a better leading duo.
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- Jenny Grogan: Marley's not allowed to drink out of the toilet, you should just keep him out of the bathroom in general.
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- Arnie Klein: Sometimes life has a better idea.
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Foreign Titles
- Marley et moi (FR)
- Una Pareja de Tres (ES)
