Once you see it, you'll shit bricks.

We're just one step closer to a " Love Is..." movie. Although that movie may end up rated R

Wow...I'm speechless. Please, shoot me now.

Oh my.

So is this what Keifer Sutherland was doing instead of starring in the first 12 hours of this season of 24?

No movie in the history of the business was necessary.

The end of that trailer was like losing a testicle to acid.

I'm not the target audience, but Owen Wilson and George Lopez can usually gurantee total mediocrity.

Fuck anybody who pays to see this.

I'd say there's no way I'll ever see this, but they'll probably advertise it on happy meals and such and my kids will beg me to check it out. I will be doing my best to resist.

They should have made those creepy Marmaduke cgi-comics into a movie instead. That would have been cool.

Anyway, this looks like a harmless KIDS movie. I don't see the problem.

The second flip Marmaduke made William H. Macy do actually made me LOL, but other than that, fuck this trailer and this movie. Jesus H. Christ, William H. Macy...

Wait, dude, you want to have sex with five year olds?

Only 1 poop joke in the trailer, impressive.

If this is what kids are watching these days, I pity society. When I was a kid I was watching movies like Logan's Run, Capricorn One, Blade Runner, Silent Running, Driving Miss Daisy, Color Purple, Arthur.... I could go on.

I understand not every parent wants their kids seeing stuff like that (because they have rods up their hindends, IMO) but the polar opposite of that shouldn't be crap fest movies like this. Come on, Pixar and Dreamworks can't be the only two movie studios out there who are making an effort to make kids movies that adults could want to see as well.

I realize that Marmaduke may never be of "Up!" quality, but maybe in the right hands it could be "Finding Nemo" quality. This trailer makes it look like Superbabies 2 quality.

Yeah, maybe I was just lucky that I grew up in an era when the stuff pushed at kids was more along the lines of Star Wars, Superman, Raiders, E.T., the original Bad News Bears, Tron, Goonies, Ghostbusters, and so on. Yeah, there were animated films and stuff like Benji... but the only truly awful stuff seemed to be the occasional low budget dreck. Nowadays that's the big budget stuff.

Oh, yeah, I got to see all those movies when I was a kid as well. It's such an odd shift in our society...I wonder what the true cause is...but the latest Indiana Jones flick really wasn't geared towards kids much in the same way Raiders of the Lost Ark was. And Star Wars was dumbed down with Jar Jar Binks and fart jokes to make it geared towards kids. It's like George Lucas forgot that a serious approach with his work like Empire Strikes Back appealed to kids all across the board and they grew up to buy his movies over and over again. Why he dumbed it down is beyond me.

I maintain that kids can and will appreciate more serious attempts at movie making. Even today. The studios don't see it that way, for whatever reason, but I know when I was a kid I appreciated TV and movies that didn't talk down to me. I may get more out of the movies more as an adult, but at least I became a life time fan of those movies. I'd NEVER watch any of those Benji movies again or any of the low budget crap you mentioned. I wonder if kids today will grow up thinking Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Marmaduke are great movies to seek out to buy in special editions as an adult. Somehow I seriously doubt it.

Instead of trying to make a fast buck for the mass culture I think movie studios would want to create movies for kids that would have the same enduring appeal as Raiders of Star Wars or the others you mentioned.

Sure, Marmaduke may be a harmless KIDS movie, but it is going to be an epic fail to be something that stands the test of time. The only studio that seems to be making movies like that right now is Pixar with Dreamworks pulling up the rear.

No, it would be their parents.

There.... there is no god.

holy fuck...that last part...jesus....that was horrible. WTF happened, Lee Pace? Damnit, filmmakers. Make some roles for this man..he's talent wasted!

Also...i grew up in the early 90s. I watched T2, Robocop, etc etc. My parents taught me to understand wtf was on screeen and to not do it. THOUGH films w/ sex I never saw till...I dunno when. Probably 15. I was very respectful to my parents methods of raising me. I was blessed in a way to be taught and comprehend what a situation was in a movie. And in that...I'm glad that I saw some of the films I saw as a kid that other kids weren't allowed too.

Seriously...unless it's Pixar I don't see many good kids films anymore in general.

Yep'. Maybe they could make it "adult" by involving a serious murder. Or maybe Marmaduke will live a long life and die at the end, teaching the kids a lesson. Or make it a scathing commentary on suburbia. Or maybe one of the kids can die half way through. Yea, someone definately needs to die, so they're not just making kiddie junk. I guess that's what the 'adults' would want.

I somehow, someway, managed to get through half of that 2 minute trailer.

Whoever greenlighted this needs to be killed. Killed with fire and burned along with every print of this film.

You stopped short of the worst two parts!

There must just be a Plinko game inside the room at Fox where they greenlight movies. There doesn't seem to be any other logic. And of course, everyone fucking went to see Avatar, so now Fox has $2.5 billion dollars to make as many Marmadukes and Alvins and Space Chimps and Meet Daves and All About Steves as they went to. I can't wait for Alvin and the Space Chimpmunks Meet Dave and Marmaduke: All About Steve 2, coming in 2017.

Thousands of years from now, when archeologists from some future civilization comb through the detritus of our country's remains, they will write book after book about how the richest and most successful nation of this age, that child of the Enlightenment, the shining beacon for the poor and down-trodden across the earth, the society that made it possible to produce so much wealth that its common people were able to live like the kings of old, pissed away its wealth on bullshit like this.

No. If America goes down, we're taking the whole world with us. No hippy shit. It's going to be billions of years before cells start merging and having enough butt-sex to kickstart the human race again.

Sure you did. You were 5 and you just enjoyed the hell out of Driving Miss Daisy, right? Bullshit!

I'm not talking about 'kids' like when a grumpy old dude is talking about teenagers. There's nothing wrong with small kids watching a silly movie about a talking dog. The R rated stuff can wait till they are 12.

Talking dogs and cats! Looks like a cute movie!