What a bomb! One would find it very very difficult to view this entire film in one sitting. A humourless Garofalo makes it only bearable in one's quest that she might say something funny - Hope is lost by the film's end. What was she thinking!! ... A film about people who walk their dogs!? - WHY?

I don't know what it is but romantic comedies always seem to be a let down. The comedy is just barely there and the romance is too unconventional to be believed. Dog Park is what the genre should be. It takes one small quirk, the dogs in this case, and melds a fairly realistic story around it. Featuring a great cast and great writing, this film jumps right off the screen. To have reality in a genre that lacks it makes it touch deeper than others. A great film and finally a date film that doesn't sacrifice quality.

Please do a favor to yourself and don't watch this movie Dog Park.It's a shame see good actors and actrisses working together in a so inapropriatte theme.If you are very patient maybe you'll watch the movie until the end but if you're not give up!!!I gave up. The story is completely stupid,there is this guy who never dates but oneday he meets Lorna(Henstridge) a beautifull and single woman.Then they go out at night and everything gets wrong.The bad thing of the movie is that dogs are the maincentral theme.The director add to the movie the most lunatic scenes with the animals,like:There is a dog named Moogley that goes to a shrink(!!!!)and he is in depression because he can't watch people having sex(!!!).Half of the movie is inside the shrink! Run away from this "motion picture" a classic of the trash!

My girlfriend and I wanted to see this movie for months because (a) we like visiting dog parks, (b) we like Janeane Garofalo, and (c) we, okay, well, at least *I* like Kids In The Hall.We looked for it and looked for it at the Blockbusters in our neighborhood, and we just couldn't find it anywhere. We thought that was odd, particularly based on the 'name' talent involved.Finally, I found it for sale for $0.99 at a Blockbuster 'pre-viewed movies' clearance sale. AND.... even that scant amount of money was too much to pay. At least now I have a tape I can use to tape over.I wish we'd seen it in the theater -- it would have been quite a bit of fun to stand up and lustily BOO, BOO, BOO. Groaningly awful - and *NOT* in the fun 'so bad, it's good' way which you might expect. I do like Bruce McCulloch, I really do. And we really wanted to like this movie. But this movie had nothing of his quirky sensibility.The script is unbelievably awful and devoid of any humor. Mark McKinney's dog psychologist character would be funny in a 2 minute KITH sketch, but does not cut it as the only 'comic relief' in a 91 minute movie.Human beings simply do not communicate in this way. Not even Canadians! The generalizations about 'the way dating works' are the kinds of things 14 year olds might say to each other, not these 30 year old (+/- 5 years) characters.The camera work and editing do nothing to help this weak script. There is one potentially good scene, as another reviewer pointed out, where a girl and guy discuss whether to eat first or to **** first. With good direction and editing, this conversation has at least some potential for lasting humor. However, we see the scene in a single cut from about 20 feet away, where we can't even see the characters' faces.Consistency problems show clear lack of thought and care. Most glaringly, and at the risk of nit-picking, Luke Wilson's dull character makes a point of the fact that after their first date he doesn't know Natasha H's character's name. Then he has flowers delivered to her at work and follows up with a phone call where he asks for her by name. Okay, I figured, I guess now he knows her name, we must have missed that scene where he found out her name. Then, an hour later in the film -- he still doesn't know her name. Huh???If you want to see it 'just for the dogs,' don't bother. The dogs get about 10 minutes of screen time, and none of them are particularly cute.A WASTE OF TIME, unless your life's goal is to see every movie Janeane Garofolo has ever been in. Her character in this one, however, is completely unmemorable and you can't be faulted for missing it.