A dreadful film.

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2007)

This film was not funny in the slightest. It was crude, I refuse to believe that anybody encourages their dogs to behave so. It was a mishmash of styles. There was sentimentality, crudity and complete illogicality.
There was unbelievability - who could believe the fondness shown to the father by the children at the wedding after his treatment of their mother, the son and the grandfather? It was awful.
It seemed that the only reason that the main protagonist was accepted at the wedding of his son was that he had paid for it.
The childish, and disgusting scenes, the farting into someone's face, the pulling down of trousers are jokes that my sons might have laughed at when they were aged about four or five. Well, the lowering of trousers part. I don't think anyone younger or older, than fourteen finds farting terribly comical. (Sorry, sensible fourteen-year-old people).
The replacement husband was a cipher. I cannot remember anything much that he said, and yet someone like Kate Beckinsale fell for him.
The angel of death was a ludicrous character in a (?) comedy.
I think I was expecting a clever, comedic, fantasy film and was given rubbish. Only amazement that this film could exist kept me watching.
Kate Beckinsale seemed to be in another film altogether, apart from her character's acceptance of the dogs' behaviour!
If the only reason for going into a bedding shop to get a television remote control was to use the word "beyond", the film failed before it started. Beyond what, exactly? And how does Bed, Bath and Beyond like the way that their salesmen are portrayed? Shown as needy and friendless, do they like that? It wasn't funny, was it?
The make-up was exceptionally good, however.
Incidentally, the website refuses to let me write in English, it insists I am misspelling words and makes me write in American. I have just noticed that I am required to write in English. Very odd!