Sometimes a film turns me off and I can't explain why. This time, thought, the reason is easy to put into words: It's too much like Fargo, another so-called dark comedy that made me tune out within the first half-hour. So I guess a good tl;dr would be: Watch this if you liked Fargo, and skip it if you didn't.
I've now noticed that my rating of that other film is far too high, but there's no way I'm rewatching it to assign a more accurate score. Since I don't like changing my ratings if it's been a while since I saw something, it'll just have to stay.
But back to A Dog's Breakfast. Aside from the immediately obvious parallels to another film I couldn't stand, this is just such a disappointment for anyone who, like me, saw Stargate Atlantis and wanted to see David Hewlett play someone other than Rodney McKay. Unfortunately, Patrick is Rodney, but with more neuroses and less intelligence. And sure, in the first few minutes I grinned a little at how similar the characters were, but the amusement passed quickly.
One could argue that I shouldn't even rate this movie at all, because I spent about two-thirds of it playing games on my phone to alleviate the tedium. Even I used to think that way until I realized that such behavior is a very useful hint, to be used when rating.
Review by dgwVIP 9BlockedParent2022-02-07T00:23:24Z
Sometimes a film turns me off and I can't explain why. This time, thought, the reason is easy to put into words: It's too much like Fargo, another so-called dark comedy that made me tune out within the first half-hour. So I guess a good tl;dr would be: Watch this if you liked Fargo, and skip it if you didn't.
I've now noticed that my rating of that other film is far too high, but there's no way I'm rewatching it to assign a more accurate score. Since I don't like changing my ratings if it's been a while since I saw something, it'll just have to stay.
But back to A Dog's Breakfast. Aside from the immediately obvious parallels to another film I couldn't stand, this is just such a disappointment for anyone who, like me, saw Stargate Atlantis and wanted to see David Hewlett play someone other than Rodney McKay. Unfortunately, Patrick is Rodney, but with more neuroses and less intelligence. And sure, in the first few minutes I grinned a little at how similar the characters were, but the amusement passed quickly.
One could argue that I shouldn't even rate this movie at all, because I spent about two-thirds of it playing games on my phone to alleviate the tedium. Even I used to think that way until I realized that such behavior is a very useful hint, to be used when rating.