I’m not a fan of websites who simply copy/paste text from traditional media sources like Variety. Even if you offer your opinion to go along with it, it just seems so lazy. In this case though, I’m going to make an exception because when I read Variety’s description of this story, for whatever reason I fell on the floor laughing. Here we go: “Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston will star in Marley & Me, the Fox 2000 adaptation of John Grogan's bestselling memoir about an incorrigible Labrador retriever.”

I don’t think there’s any way I could possibly have said it better. Shouldn’t this movie star Beverly D’Angelo and Charles Grodin? What the heck are Jen Aniston and Owen Wilson doing mucking around in a lame, Labrador retriever movie? I suppose next we’ll hear that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will star in a remake of Milo & Otis. I can’t wait. Nic Cage starring in Benji Goes Bananas? Bring it on.

Grogan’s book is about his misadventures in owning an unruly dog, because dogs are so funny and we all love to laugh at those stories about picking poop up off the carpet. I mean, at least Turner & Hooch had a few action sequences. This is quite literally a movie about a guy cleaning up dog piss. Ever wanted to see Jennifer Aniston clean a carpet? Then start getting excited about Marley & Me.