Wiener-Dog (2016)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Naming the dog cancer was genius and related to all "owners". Sequence of ownership is possibly "frock bomber professor", little boy, vet, married couple, Nanna and finally "inherited" to Fantasy. The mutual contact point being cancer (and the dog) throughout the movie is satirically stunning and facilitates an utter skew in the viewer composure, while imaginations are fueled with other probable narratives. My rating is not 10 for sake of the intermission, after which has the dog still in Ohio, but changing owner from the married couple to the old lady. The thread of all stories is cancer (little boy, professor, alcoholic Dad of brothers, Nanna). The final scene of Nanna awaking from a lucid premonition of her possible after-life, sees her awaken and discover she has "lost cancer". ...seeing the dog run over the same amount of times as main character-groups ("owners") of the doggy.Why this is not clearly understood in 75+ comments is a bit strange and might be film-worthy in itself. ;)Utterly strange is why a CGI doggy being run over is so shocking!? Simply makes no sense compared to so many other films e.g. Game of Thrones where people are dropping every few minutes. Why over exaggerate in that manner and humanly detach from the actual film?? ...and miss the final scene of Fantasy' eternalisation!

As a former fan of Todd Solondz' work, I was eager to view "Wiener-Dog". There were harbingers of disappointment in the first vignette, but not until the last 20 minutes of the film was I forced to resign myself to the sad reality that Solondz has become a victim of his own filmic nihilism in that he has become an auteur of ugly, boring, artistically hollow visions. His treatment of each of the separate narratives of this film reveals what one fears is an unintentionally autobiographical snapshot of his own fears as a film maker and a creator. The only redeeming moments in this rather masturbatory work come through some of the performances of the cast. However, for the regrettable experience that it is to fidget and sigh ones way through this film, it is still not worth the time, effort and disappointment required to view it - particularly if one is or ever was a fan of Solondz' work. Initially, I felt a pang of disappointment at seeing that Heather Matarazzo would not be reprising her role as Dawn... however, I quickly realized the blessing at not having this minor atrocity tread on her interpretation of the character. At least some part of Solondz' legacy was left unscarred by this film-- even it was only the characterization that a gifted child actor brought to the titular role in a previous incarnation. If you loved or cared for "Welcome to the Dollhouse", or any other Solondz' other, earlier works... steer clear of this one.

Spoiler. But I wish I had seen a spoiler for this movie. I wish I had known that the wiener dog runs into traffic and gets RUN OVER BY A TRUCK ON SCREEN and then run over again and again on screen before wasting 2 hours of my life watching this. I cannot un-see this now and it will play over and over in my mind for days to come now. Very upsetting. I should have had a clue when one of the characters straps a ticking bomb on the wiener dog in the previous vignette; I had a feeling... if I saw this film in a theater I would have walked out. I cannot believe it has even 5 stars--the characters are absolutely horrible. There's nothing redeeming whatsoever about this movie which is disappointing considering how much I loved Welcome To The Doll House. WTF? AWFUL and I will have nightmares for weeks now.

As i watched this movie i had a few good laughs.. but in the end, i failed to get the point. If there was one.. the acting is stiff and artificial, which by all means may have been intended, but not to my liking. The interconnected stories didn't connect at all which made the plot impressively uninteresting. Was it even the same dog pictured throughout the movie? Who knows... the humor is quirky, dark and bizarre, I can give credit for that, but there is no story.. Half way through I started yawning and towards the end of the movie I longed for it to end. Even so I rate this movie with a 6, since it was actually funny, when you managed to look past the pointlessness of it all.