Today we conclude Memoir Week here at Trailer Review with the trailer for the adaptation of John Grogan’s Marley & Me. Not having read the book, I’m ill-prepared to pass pre-emptive judgment on the movie version, which stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. But this teaser doesn’t give me a whole lot of hope. Now, I realize that making a teaser is a tricky business, having to give audiences a taste of the movie without much footage to work with. But this one just feels lazy- thirty seconds of a cute little dog, a glimpse of Wilson and Aniston chasing him, then the title. On top of that, there’s the head-slappingly obvious use of Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire theme, which despite its overuse for the past quarter century has become Hollywood’s music of choice to accompany a running scene, no matter what life form it might be. The only other thing I know is that the movie was directed by David Frankel, who with this and The Devil Wears Prada is quickly becoming Hollywood’s go-to guy for bringing memoirs to the big screen. I wasn’t a big fan of the earlier film, so I’ll probably pass on this one.
