Wiener-Dog (2016)

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It's inaccurate to call this a comedy expecting there to be humor. The most entertaining part was the "intermission." The story line is broken into four parts, each of which is more depressing than the prior one. I searched for but didn't find any real connection between the parts other than that each one featured an individual who owned a dachshund. Some of the segment endings were very upsetting if you like dogs.I guess the acting and photography was good, but that's about all.

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.

Sickening and repulsive. Every single character seems to be an extraordinary a**hole not worthy of living, much less of having a little dog under his or her own responsibility. This is NOT a dog-lovers movie!!The movie consists of a series of stories of ultra-depressing individuals whose only common trait is ownership of "wiener-dog". The dog gets assigned different names as she is handed from owner to owner. The film's writer or director goes o great lenghts to recreate these worlds where the characters carry existence of emptiness and sheer hopelessness. Perhaps the writer/director thought this was going to be funny and controversial because it attempts to delve in black humor. But the result is so grotesque that it is not funny!

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.