Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I went in with an open mind hoping for a dark comedy. In the end it was just dark, bleak, and utterly pointless. Let me save you some time: the first family that adopts wiener-dog has a son who survived cancer. Even though the dog brings the boy joy, the jerk dad decides to have it euthanized for having diarrhea. The mother tries to convince the boy death is a good thing. Ha ha? The vet tech 'steals' wiener-dog just before the injection, then runs off with a former classmate she runs into at a convenience store. She goes with him on a road trip to inform his brother their father died of alcoholism. Both his brother and the brother's wife have Down's syndrome and are the only bright points in this movie. They lavish w-d with affection. Vet tech is sweet and leaves wiener-dog with them as a gesture of true kindness. It jumps to bummed out Danny DeVito, a film school teacher. He's told to cheer up or he may be fired, and somehow this leads to a shopping spree. He buys the dog a yellow dress, and next thing you know abandons the dog at the school with a bomb attached. I guess it was fake. Lastly, the terse elderly granny has w-d and names her 'Cancer'. Her ne'er do well granddaughter and 'artist' boyfriend show up to visit. Granny knows it's only to hit her up for $10,000. She cuts a check and the granddaughter abruptly leaves. Granny has a dream during a nap on her bench of versions of herself as a child if she had only done ___. They all look alike. The younger selves chant 'It all ends' or something like that, granny is startled awake to find w-d gone. She has run into the road and is run over by a semi. Then another. Then a car. Then another. Do they expect this to be funny? The sick director just had the gory scene go on and on. Nothing is left to the imagination. It then cuts to six months later, granddaughter's 'artist' boyfriend is showcasing wiener-dog at his show in a plastic case as a taxidermy exhibit. It is wired to turn and bark. That's it! The end. I am not worried about spoiling the movie because honestly it's impossible to spoil something that is already rotten. I hope to save someone the wasted time. Or just watch to when the vet tech leaves her with the couple. I gave one star for the dachshund, and one for that couple and the vet tech who gifted her to them. What a waste of adorable wiener-dog potential.