Python Hyena Marmaduke (2010): Dir: Tom Dey / Voices: Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, George Lopez, Kiefer Sutherland, Stacy Furguson: Idiotic piece of dog dung based on the popular comic strip. Marmaduke is a Great Dane in a not so great story. He describes himself as a teenage dog living with the typical family until they move to Orange County. His owner works for a business that specializes in vegetarian pet food and they travel to a dog park to discuss business. Meanwhile, Marmaduke learns that the dog park is dominated by a big black dog named Bosco who takes an immediately dislike to our Great Dane when he is caught talking to the wrong female dog. The human characters are bland with Marmaduke's owner given dialogue that mainly consists of him yelling out his dog's name. Owen Wilson voices Marmaduke, a Great Dane skilled in a variety of activities including break dancing. Emma Stone voices that overlooked female dog who helps Marmaduke get sophisticated with the popular dog crowd. George Lopez voices Carlos the cat who goes out too much on a limb for Marmaduke. Kiefer Sutherland voices bully Bosco who threatens Marmaduke but viewers know that he will lose his position at dog park. Even singer Fergie gets in on this action also she will find nothing Fergalicious about it. Director Tom Dey previously made Shanghai Noon and Showtime. Here he is backed by terrible special effects including lame footage of dogs surfing. Since a dog could drown in such conditions, I found this greatly non amusing. This film should be buried in the backyard with the bones. Score: 2 / 10

starlimitz2 The results of when a mediocre idea for a movie like Garfield actually turns a profit. Producers rummage through the Sundays to find another decently popular comic strip with a similar idea, and stumble upon Marmaduke. Add in a terrible script, no respect for the source material, and a whole bunch of random celebrity voices, and you have a movie with absolutely no merit to speak for. This movie had dialog that has not seen the light of day, and for good reason. While there were some slightly funny moments here and there, it was all just lazy comedy. The fact that they made Marmaduke talk in the first place was one of the biggest mistakes the movie came up with. All of the lines about "Oh no! I can't do it!" and then the "Come on, you can do it!" then we have the "I'm scared! I can't do it!" and then the God-awful "Oh, wow, I can do it! Yay!" These moments were a fall-back to actually writing something. I could go on and on about how bad this movie was, but you won't understand unless you actually watch it, and keep watching it once the song-and-dance routine starts at the end, with bad CGI Dogs doing the mummy dance. I really wish I were kidding right now. Anyway, skip over this. The DVD cover with the cat and dog in sunglasses should be a huge clue as to how much this movie insults your intelligence. Sorry for the rant.

anthony-rigoni When I first heard that Marmaduke got his own movie, I was satisfied. When I watch it, I was like "Dude, this is supposed to be a cartoon movie not a dopey version of High School Musical!". If I were making this movie, I'd make a few changes. 1) Kill the High School theme. It's better if the high school style involved only humans. 2) Next time, get Jim Carrey or Tom Hanks to play Marmaduke. 3) Tone down the innuendo in the movie. 4) How about you let Robin Williams play the cat? 5) Kill the party scene and the beach surfing scene. 6) Make it a cartoon because live-action is less appealing. 7) Fire the director, the computer animators, and the producer. 8) Tone down the language a wee bit. And 9) Make Marmaduke younger. Sadly, the film-makers have neither sense nor a brain to figure out what the heck was wrong with the movie. Don't believe me? Buy it on DVD and find out.

oneofnone-1 Maybe it's because I grew up with, and still have, a Great Dane. I don't know. But I really enjoyed this movie! I therefor really don't understand all this negativity. Did people really expected it to be an award winning movie like the Godfather or Titanic?? I sure hope not. It's about a talking Great Dane for crying out loud! And it's just as good as any other "animal talking and dancing" movie, like Garfield, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Hotel for Dogs etc etc.The movie is funny and cute. And I will definitely get it on Blu-ray soon.So if you're a kid and/or a Dane or dog lover, this movie is just plain fun to watch.