"If you're a teenager and the world doesn't fit you, you're totally hosed." And if you're making a movie about a chatty, teenaged Great Dane, you might as well give him the voice of Owen Wilson ...

Wouldn't it be great if 7-year-olds could drive themselves to the movies? You could give them some money for Junior Mints or whatever, send them on their way, and never have to trouble yourself ...

It's a key component of "Marmaduke," being a Hollywood talking-dogs product, which certainly will induce any audience member over the age of 8 into an uncontrollable salivary stupor.