John and Jennifer gets hitched and soon settles down in Florida, and starts to establish their adult life, but Marley has become the most imprudent dog and handling him has become the most difficult task.
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.
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.
Salon.com
December 29, 2008
The movie is ultimately less about the pain of loss than about the way families often take shape around a pet.
