There are clearly limits to Mike White's unique brand of sympathetic snark. Films he's written are about small, wounded people without ever settling on whether to damn or praise them. Dog marks his first time as a director. His mockery of the characters borders on vicious. Molly Shannon is solid enough as a woman who contends with the loss of a pet through an escalating commitment to other animals. In the end, I did believe in her character's path. I wish I felt that White did, too.

I enjoyed this movie, the ending actually surprised me. Molly Shannon does a great job in the lead role. This movie isn't perfect but overall I would recommend it.

"Minor but moving, it's a story about, and for, outsiders...and PETA members as well." - Nick Schager

From what I remember, this was excruciating and boring. I don't believe I made it through the whole thing.

The only thing this film succeeds at is being average. It pretends to be deep with its "message" about animal cruelty that has been pounded into viewers' heads for a long, long time, and that alone was enough to keep me from enjoying the film, but the way the main character acted (crazy, magically became a vegan and animal rights activist) was also annoying. I have scarcely seen a movie I enjoyed as little as this one. Even other films I've rated similarly were at least enjoyable, if not "good."

I don't think this film really knew what it was, it was enjoyable though and the reactions Peggy got when she went vegan were spot on, very realistic.

"It's a testament to writer/director Mike White's talents that Peggy's miseries are shown as humorously tragic, but also simply, plainly painful."

If you love your pets, especially dogs, you probably will be favorably disposed toward this film, as I was. There is something wonderful and dog-like about Molly Shannon's performance, and that's a plus. But the film runs out of energy and creativity toward the end. The last 20 minutes or so was a dog's breakfast of farce, drama, and Sundancy ambiguities.

Tries too hard to be an indie-film, if that makes a lick of sense. And it fails, it's just a bunch of shallow feel-good moments that want to be weird, but are just stupid.

It's the kind of depressing you only get from bad movies, it's not about the tragic turns our lives take that make us miserable and lonely as much as it's about the stupid neuroses we have that make people think no wonder this lunatic is single. That and it flat out fails as either a romance or a comedy.

Though this annoyingly genre-defying is only 97 minutes long, it feels at least double that. Despite a hilarious performance by Laura Dern and a surprisingly moving turn by Shannon, this film did not hold together as well as I had hoped.

Molly Shannon is the only saving grace for this very uncomfortable and depressing movie. If it wasn't for her, it'd be a certain ZERO. If you like this actress, and want to spend a couple hours squirming uncomfortably, waiting for the main character to make increasingly worse choices in life, here you go.

While it attempts to avoid some the trappings of the "quirky, hip, and independent" genre by keeping the characters plausibly eccentric and realistic, the film feels kind of unsure of itself; furthermore, the humor is very dry and the story is not always all that compelling. Nonetheless, it's pretty smart, the dialogue is sharp, and the performances are good. I thought it was fine but I probably won't watch it again.