Marley & Me

We watched Marley & Me last night. It stars Jennifer Aniston, who I adore, and Owen Wilson, who wife adores, so it was at least watchable for that. The plot wasn't really up to much, the dog (Marley) just annoyed the hell out of me and much as I love pets he would have had to

• A) Get trained
  or
• B) Get a new home

because he couldn't have stayed with me. Especially when the handful of kids arrived on the scene. I'm not saying pets and kids are incompatible (though that is how we inherited our cat) but that dog and those kids most certainly were.

I could sense an unhappy ending coming along - but it wasn't the unhappy ending I was expecting - clever scripting or dumb viewer? Bit of both probably.

Anyway, without giving anything away, the ending had wife in tears for a good half hour, so perhaps the film had something about it after all. It's not every film that delivers that much emotion.