Who Gets the Dog?

This is very much a straight to DVD/dogs dinner of a romantic comedy.

It's a shame because Alicia Silverstone is a fine comedic actress who never really seems like she's lived up to her undoubted potential, and Ryan Kwanten (who will always be Vinny from 'Home and Away' to me) is likable too.

Ultimately it all comes down as it always does to the script and unfortunately this is not a good one. It doesn't help that the leads don't have much chemistry either.

It's a romantic comedy mixed with some 'Marley and Me' elements, and all in all it just ends up being a passable but rather dull outing.

It's not high art, but the movie is cute and has two great actors I always enjoyed watching (I hadn't seen Silverstone in a while, or Kwanten since True Blood)

Plus it has hockey, which elevates any movie ;) Just watch for the cute dog antics, and don't overthink it.

This movie is about interpersonal relationships between people, like most "dog" movies

there is not that much footage of the dog, and it's not that funny of a movie, lots of serious drama stuff with some humor. Even the humor parts are interwoven into the drama scenes

Its tough to find dog movies which focus on dogs, this movie is not one of those

I am always impressed when a terrible idea get's greenlit, funded, and filmed. This movie was one of those unfortunate surprises and I just can't understand who pitched this seriously, but more so, who took the pitch seriously. A couple breaking up is not really funny to begin with, and where this tried to be funny it just was not. The movie is forgettable and I would not watch it again. It's a darn shame because I am a big fan of a lot of the actors and I am crossing my fingers that I will see them in better projects soon because they deserve that.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a whole lot of humor in this romantic comedy, starring Alicia Silverstone and Ryan Kwanten. Having marital problems, they're in the process of separating, yet they equally love their dog Wesley and can't seem to reach any compromise as to where Wesley should end up. Thus, they begin a custodial court battle for their dog, which, in my opinion, just seems to drag on and even get quite tedious.

Although the leads' passions for Wesley seem genuine, this weak scripted movie never seemed to gel into a funny or enjoyable film, and by the time the predictable ending occurred I really wasn't that interested anymore.