Marley & Me Critic Reviews

An imperfect, messy and sometimes trying film that has moments of genuine sweetness and humor sprinkled in between the saccharine and the sadness.Read the full review

Marley & Me might be easy to watch, but -- even for die-hard canine lovers -- it's as easy to forget.Read the full review

It's an enjoyable and unpretentious perspective of life that reminds us how important and rewarding the little things can be.Read the full review

You'd have to be made of granite to resist all the charms of a free-spirited, 100-pound Lab. Yet the production manages, against heavy odds, to make its canine star an incorrigible bore.Read the full review

A warm and fuzzy family movie, but you do wish that at least once someone would upstage the dog.Read the full review

Wilson has a scene near the end with Marley that's the most wrenchingly tender acting of his career.Read the full review

Watching the stars try to out-cutesy the mutt is one for the puke bucket.Read the full review

There are three fine performances lost in this otherwise middling film. Alan Arkin makes a wonderfully gruff newspaper editor who does just about as much barking as Marley. Jennifer Aniston makes the most of the rather slender figure of Jennifer Grogan, creating a believably human picture of a career woman who gives it up for the kids. And then there's the dog that plays Marley.Read the full review

When Marley is not on the screen, Wilson and Aniston demonstrate why they are gifted comic actors. They have a relationship that's not too sitcomish, not too sentimental, mostly smart and realistic.Read the full review