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04/23/09
Marley & Me (2008)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:6
Rotten:5
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Pet owners should love it, but Marley and Me is only sporadically successful in wringing drama and laughs from its scenario.
Theatrical Release:11-03-2009
Synopsis: The filmmakers behind THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA take on another bestseller in the family film MARLEY AND ME. Based on the hit memoir by John Grogan, MARLEY AND ME chronicles the relationship of John... [More]
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Alan Arkin
Director: David Frankel
Reviews for Marley & Me
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticIn 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..."
03/13/09
Top CriticThere is something wildly odd about a film that measures human happiness with the whims of a dog.
03/13/09
Top CriticThere's much more to this than just the cute dog.
03/13/09
Top CriticEvidently contrived and something of an ungainly hybrid, the film shares its canine protagonist’s facility for wearing down your resistance.
03/13/09
Top CriticMy 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.
03/13/09
Top CriticWhen the story lags -- and it does more than a few times -- there is Alan Arkin as Grogan's crusty editor Arnie Klein to help things along.
12/29/08
Top CriticAt the end of Marley & Me you don’t leave the theater with a sense that anything much has been learned, only that a fixture in the Grogans’ comfortable suburban lives has been removed.
12/25/08
Top CriticWhen Marley is not on the screen, Wilson and Aniston demonstrate why they are gifted comic actors. They have a relationship that's not too sitcomish, not too sentimental, mostly smart and realistic.
12/24/08
Top CriticSeldom does a studio release feature so little drama -- and not much comedy either, other than when the dog clowns around.
12/22/08
Top CriticThis perky, episodic film is as broad and obvious as it could be, but delivers on its own terms thanks to sparky chemistry between its sunny blond stars, Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, and the unabashed emotion-milking of the final reel.
12/22/08
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Latest News for Marley & Me
March 17, 2009:
Marley & Me Dominates Foreign Box Office 
The story about a family and their dog takes down Watchmen with a $13.9m haul in its first international weekend. More...
January 04, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Marley Still #1 and Races Past $100M
Moviegoers caught up on those holiday films they didn't see over Christmas weekend as the top seven films finished in the exact same slots as last weekend with the dog drama... More...
December 28, 2008:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Marley Takes #1, The Spirit Tanks
This weekend people were in the mood for movies over Christmas weekend as multiplexes were jam-packed with customers that powered four different new releases to more than $30M... More...
December 23, 2008:
Critics Consensus: Benjamin Button Rewards the Curious; It's Bedtime for Bedtime Stories
This week at the movies, we've got a full slate of new flicks: Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler and Keri Russell; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt... More...
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