Marmaduke

I had not seen a trailer of Marmaduke before I entered the cinema. I did not know what to expect. I thought, 'oh just another G-rated kids movie', grin and smile for the next two hours and enjoy some of the moments. How wrong I was. As soon as this lovable canine began yapping via the voice of Owen Wilson a large grin came quickly across my face. And it stayed there.

Marmaduke greets us with a typical middle class young family. The father (Lee Pace) works in marketing and has been offered a better job in O.C. land California, working for an organic pet food company. Therein lies the plot sync that his lovable canine sinks into on arrival. We are introduced to a world of talking dogs that inhabit the park of the father's (Phil's) new boss Don Twombley (William H. Macy). While filfilling the prototypical characters that go into a conflictual plot where one side battles against the other, these dogs never lose their charm.

Marmaduke is highly entertaining. Containing an all-star voice-over cast including Keifer Sutherland (Bosco) and Steve Coogan (Raisin), your kids will love it from start to finish-and so will you. Great stuff.