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Marmaduke is a talking animal film that is based on the comic strip of the late American cartoonist, Brad Anderson, along with Paul Anderson and Phil Leeming. T

Marmaduke Movie Review

Marmaduke Movie Review English
Review for the film " Marmaduke"
Streaming On: Netflix
Runtime: 1 Hour 39 Minutes
Certificate: U
Released: 04-06-2010
Genre: Comedy, Family
2 / 5.0
3.31 / 5.0

Marmaduke is a talking animal film that is based on the comic strip of the late American cartoonist, Brad Anderson, along with Paul Anderson Paul Anderson has been nicknamed as Boyce, who was >> Read More... and Phil Leeming. The film was directed by Tom Dey, who is also the director of the famous film, Shanghai Noon, in the year 2000. He is repeating his collaboration with Owen Wilson Owen Wilson was born in Dallas, Texas on November >> Read More... , who lends his voice as Marmaduke, the protagonist of the film.

Plot:

Marmaduke (Owen Wilson) is a big Great Dane dog owned by Phil Winslow ( Lee Pace Lee Pace is an actor who has given his contributio >> Read More... ), who works at the Bark Organic, a dog food store in Kansas. He has a cat friend named Carlos (George Lopez).

Phil was transferred to California for an ad campaign. His boss, Don Twombly, is bent on creating an awareness about the Bark organic dog food in all the Petco stores available in the country. The rendezvous for the discussion was at the dog park. From there, our protagonist meets a gorgeous rough collie dog named Jezebel (Fergie) and develops a crush on her. But Jezebel has a boyfriend named Bosco ( Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland is an eminent British-Canadian a >> Read More... ), a violent Beauceron dog, who is biased to the entire pedigrees.

Our protagonist also meets Mazie ( Emma Stone Emma Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her or >> Read More... ) and few other dogs. To boost his strength and toughness among the other dogs in the dog park, Marmaduke asks Carlos to pretend that he is lost in the dog park and stage a dog fight that he would win.

Meanwhile, Mazie develops a crush on Marmaduke. After this episode, Phil conducts a dog surfing contest to get the attention of the Petco, which is obviously won by our protagonist, as expected. Though Bosco is an experienced dog-surfing champion, Marmaduke managed to win over him, which results to a fight between the two.

He takes Jezebel on a dream date. He throws a party at Winslow’s house while the family is away. Bosco crashed the party and reveals that the fight between Marmaduke and a cat at the dog park is not real, and hence, all his pedigree friends abandoned him. When Phil returns, he sees his house in a wreck and locked Marmaduke out of the house. Marmaduke runs into the woods and found an elderly English Mastiff dog, which has the reputation of killing his master. The dog asks Marmaduke to leave and return to his master while he still has one.  However, he gets lost.

Meanwhile, Phil and Mazie discover that Marmaduke is missing and scout for him. How Phil loses his assignment to save Marmaduke? How Mazie and Marmaduke fall into a sewer and to save them, what are the risks does Phil takes and how will he regain his job? What is the dog dancing all about? Please watch the movie and find out.

Analysis:

Clearly the movie is only for kids and not for adults. Though a commercial success, the movie fails to entertain the viewers. With the failed jokes and one-liners, the movie is bromidic and humorless.

Star Performances:

Owen Wilson failed utterly in providing a good voice-over and George Lopez’s performance is also not worth mentioning. There is no great captivating performance in this movie.

What’s there

  • A plain comedy film for children. You can happily watch the movie with children, without getting them bored
  • The message against indiscrimination at the end of the movie doesn’t motivate us enough.

What’s not there?

  • Though a watchable comedy for children, it is horrible for adults to watch because of its failed humor. The jokes could have been more sensible.
  • The dog dancing at the end of the film is worse than any other animated sequence. The director should have taken more care about it.

Verdict:

The movie is watchable only for children and for some animal talking movie lovers.


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