Marmaduke Reviews

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Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Marmaduke sinks to Beverly Hills Chihuahua levels of awfulness and only reaffirms that talking animals aren't funny -- they're boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Spectacularly sentimental, full of ridiculous computer-animated action, and makes sure its animals are a good deal less pallid than the humans on view.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

There is only so much fun you can have with a talking dog and Marmaduke quickly exhausts the possibilities.

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Better than Cats & Dogs, but praise hardly comes much lower.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Fans of the single-panel cartoon that has run in newspapers since the 1950s will find plenty to disappoint them in this live-action adaptation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The incoherent, moralising script demeans a number of actors, including William H. Macy, Judy Greer and David Walliams, reduced by a kindly editor to an ineffective cameo.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Dogs may be for life but the memory of this film will last about 20 seconds.

| Original Score: 1/5

Oh dear.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Mirthless family romp that hits all the lowest comedy dominators.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Once upon a time, there was a promising young acting talent who went by the name of Owen Wilson.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Generally has its heart in the right place, there's some good slapstick and you have to admire the patience of filmmakers who are prepared to work with this many animals on one set.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Although comfortably under 90 minutes, Marmaduke is an epic chore to sit through.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

With his eyes goggling and his gob smudging all over the place, he looks like a haunted painting.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Never veers from The Hollywood Guide To Mid-Budget Family Fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

While not quite as bad as it could have been, this is very much Hollywood-schmaltz-by-numbers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

You could do worse with young kids, and they'll romp along with Marmaduke's throwaway adventures, it's just there's much better stuff out there that will entertain viewers above the age of 10 too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's as if Pixar never happened.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The novelty quickly fades since -- you guessed it -- the story's just not there.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's dull and conventional, turning a half-century of mischief into 80 minutes of yawns.

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