Marley Me Movie

Talk about chewing the scenery. In "Marley & Me," the title character -- that would be the dog Marley, not Me -- literally eats the furniture. Jennifer Aniston recalls her introduction to her costar, a yellow lab named Clyde. "I walked onto the set and put my sweater and my bag down on the couch, and that dog leapt up onto the couch, grabbed my sweater and started ripping it," she says. The trainers responded immediately, but not as she expected. "They said, 'good, good boy!'

It's amazing how the modern media can help you improve your life. For example, you can watch TV shows such as "The Dog Whisperer" or "It's Me or the Dog" and learn all kinds of useful pointers on dealing with your misbehaving canine. And then you can trek to the No. 1 movie in America, "Marley & Me," and forget everything you've been taught. No, I have not come to bury "Marley & Me" for its corny sentimentality and Christmas-card triteness -- many others have already beaten me to that.