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Mar­ley & Me is the story of the mar­ried life of a man, a dog, and their fam­ily. Owen Wil­son and Jen­nifer Anis­ton play John and Jenny Gro­gan, a cou­ple of freshly mar­ried jour­nal­ists who embark upon their life together, all things accord­ing to her plan, until they bring home their new Lab­o­rador Retriever. Like their life, they never seem to get Mar­ley under con­trol but find that this works for them.

Make no mis­take, Mar­ley is the one con­stant in this movie. Owen Wil­son and Jen­nifer Anis­ton dull their onscreen pres­ence a bit to make them seem more ordi­nary and to allow Mar­ley to shine. This film fol­lows the cou­ple through­out the entire time the dog is in their life, through all their ups and downs as they strug­gle to find them­selves. Mar­ley seems to know who he is from day one.

This is def­i­nitely a date movie and while noth­ing ground break­ing or overly amaz­ing hap­pens onscreen, it is at times funny, annoy­ing, and touch­ing all at once. This is espe­cially so as the movie comes to a close. The whole fam­ily can watch this though the kids might be bored for the first third of the movie or at least until the dog gets his first close up. I enjoyed it and give it a 4 out of 5 marks.