Step Dogs

I rented the movie because I was curious about the Belgium Malinois. So disappointed. I own a Malinois. These dogs live Mad-Eye Moody's constant vigilance mantra. Strangers are noticed, investigated and **not** licked. A Golden Retriever would have made the Meatball character more believable. The poor casting took me right out of this very weak story. The only surprise is that this got made at all. I did appreciate the setting; they shot the movie in a truly cold location as revealed by the ability to see the characters' breaths when they were outside and the sound of snow crunching when walked on. I wouldn't waste your time and money.

This movie was incredibly hard to watch. Even my kid didn't like it, so we had to turn it off. Poorly made knock off of other movies, so many awkward scenes with poorly drawn out jokes. Not worth watching.

Take a silly, juvenile, utterly cliche script, add some really bad acting, Throw in poorly voiced dogs. Add the worst acted bad guys you could never even have imagined and you'll have a grip on this film. That being said, there is no foul language, no gratuitous sex, nudity or violence. Which is surprisingly refreshing. It is clearly a low budget film and the direction is amateurish at best. But it is family watchable and those kinds of movies are few. The kids will like the dogs.

So we can go on and on about how amazing this movie was. The acting is PERFECT, and so is the directing and writing and cinematropghy and casting-- just- perfect! But i do unfortunaklly have one problem... its that i wasnt in this movie! How come i couldnt be meatball?? I was the one that they told couldve been casted. And not to throw shade on anybidy but that lady said i would "definitley be getting the role" and that "theyll email me soon" but guerss what? 7 years later. And im STILL waiting for that email... or, at least, i WAS. I was scrolling through the list of americas greatest movies and saw this gem, i thought itd bve fun to watch. However, though it was a perfect movie, i relized that this was the very movie that THEY TOLD ME i would be cast for. Disguisting buisness practices and horrible filmmaskers and horrendous casting directors, but, overall good movie.

I gave it 3 because of the dogs and the step sister who all played their parts well. The problem with this film is they aren't in it enough. The 2 bungling burglars ( where have we seen that before ) are totally unfunny even with slapstick. When the dogs made their entrance I thought this could be good comedy. I was hoping the film would centre around them, but no, the most unfunny human characters took over, it's a shame, could have been good.