(NOTE: Curmudgeon mode ON.)
I should have expected what I was getting into, but it was not something that filled the bill of what I needed right now. It had everything I hate about doting doggie mommies who dress up their pets and clueless doggie daddies who don't care about training their dogs. A full soundtrack of little yappy dogs and giant woofing ones. I don't think I laughed once during the whole movie.
Wrong movie for a grouchy mood, but wrong for specific recent reasons. I've recently had encounters with neighbors, the little yappy dogs on one side and a new VERY LOUD Rottweiler on the other. Now that I can get outside again, my hoped-for quiet backyard is assaulted by these noises all day.
fyi, I love dogs. I've fostered and adopted out at least 20 in the last three years, of varying breeds. I feel bad that I wasn't in the right mindset to enjoy the madcap mayhem presented here. But I don't think the writing was all that great either, and the jokes are sometimes looooonngly drawn out.
Perhaps the most unintentionally amusing scene was seeing the married couple settle down for the night in their matching twin beds.
Wrong movie for a grouchy mood, but wrong for specific recent reasons. I've recently had encounters with neighbors, the little yappy dogs on one side and a new VERY LOUD Rottweiler on the other. Now that I can get outside again, my hoped-for quiet backyard is assaulted by these noises all day.
fyi, I love dogs. I've fostered and adopted out at least 20 in the last three years, of varying breeds. I feel bad that I wasn't in the right mindset to enjoy the madcap mayhem presented here. But I don't think the writing was all that great either, and the jokes are sometimes looooonngly drawn out.
Perhaps the most unintentionally amusing scene was seeing the married couple settle down for the night in their matching twin beds.