The Dog Problem (2006)

just a delicious entertaining story! i really didn't get the 'depressed' description of the main character Solo. he is way too active to be depressed. but that issue is not a problem.the plot line and story are what keeps this film smoothly moving and charming from start to finish.if you are just looking for a simple story of human interaction and how a dog lives and is affected by humans this is your movie. solo and the dog have a wonderful relationship and is a perfect look at how pets depend on their owners and how the owner of a pet must operate his life around it.the characters are fun - not necessarily believable, but fun to watch.

Through out the movie the line life is a delicate negotiation is said. At the end of the movie it is said one last time. What are the lines he says just before he says "life is a delicate negotiation" at the end of the movie? Now other than that I feel this is an excellent movie. I am not much of a writer and I am definitely not one to seriously psychoanalyze a movie. For me that takes away from the movie. So if you want to see a great movie and it is definitely a what I would call a feel good comedy then watch it. I just happened to catch it on one of the movie channels and I would definitely watch it again. So there you are my take on the movie and like I said I am not much of a writer.

I've been following Giovanni Ribisi's career since the 80s because I love character actors and this guy has always been a great character actor and I came across The Dog Problem in the cable listings and thought: "Giovanni Ribisi in a lead role?" Now I gotta wonder why no one has cast him in a lead before this? Anyway, see this movie! It's one of those great little films you'll never forget and everybody in it is fantastic and Scott Caan (who wrote and directed and co-stars) made all the right choices here. (Mark Mothersbaugh does the music and Phil Parmet shot it - that didn't hurt either.) Trust me, this movie is no dog!

This must rate with the worst films I have ever seen. It just wasn't funny. My wife fell asleep. I suppose if you are the sort of person who goes all gooey eyed at the sight of a dog then it may do something for you. If you expect a comedy film to have some humour in it then you will be disappointed unless you find an English radio announcer saying the f word a lot hilarious. The strippers in the club kept their underwear on so there wasn't even a bit of nudity to relieve the boredom. What did happen in the strip club made no sense at all. There was a great deal of mumbling by the lead character with whom I developed no sympathy at all. Mena Suvari was hardly in the film, presumably just there to make people think it was a serious attempt at producing a film. The bad guys were unconvincing and carried as much menace as a dead sheep.