Marley & Me: 3-Disc Bad Dog Edition Blu-ray Disc Set Review

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Title: Marley & Me: 3 – Disc Bad Dog Edition, Media: Blu-ray Disc & DVD

Blu-ray Disc Specifications: English DTS HD 5.1 MA and French, Spanish, and Portuguese Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Subtitles: English Subtitles For The Deaf And Hearing Impaired and Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and Portuguese Language Subtitles

DVD Specifications: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound and French and Spanish Dolby Surround Sound, Subtitles: English and Spanish Language Subtitles

Extras: Deleted Scenes With Optional Director’s Commentary, Finding Marley Featurette, Breaking The Golden Rule Featurette, On Set With Marley: Dog Of All Trades Featurette, Gag Reel, Dog Training Trivia Track, Bonus DVD Containing The Feature Film On DVD And a Bonus Disc Containing A Digital Copy For Portable Media Players, MPAA Rating: PG, Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera

One of the great pleasures in life is to own your own pet. Whether it is a cat or a dog or something else, there is a bond that grows between an owner and his or her pet that is unique for each person and yet like the relationships we have with each other as humans, we can all relate to it even if we ourselves are not in the same situation. Granted, some things cannot be put into words with quite the same understanding as between two who have shared a similar experience regardless if it is happy, tragic or somewhere in between or simply something else entirely. For example, at the time of this writing, I am still a single man without any children so while I can intellectualize what it might be like to step before a Priest, Rabbi, Justice of the Peace, or someone else ordained to wed two people, I’ll never know what it is like on an emotional level to get married until that day comes and while I have seen lots of photos particularly of people who I knew in high school with their own babies and toddlers, etc., I could never say “I know what it is like to be a Dad.” Not even my own father could truly pass on that experience to me. There are some things in life you just have to experience for yourself. You can be helped along the way and guided by others, but I’m from the school of thought that says “we learn by doing” so while I hope for the best and lots of support along the way, I know I won’t know what it’s like until I’m in the same shoes and I think the same applies to owning a pet.

My dog, Molly just turned a year old and she is a great friend and companion that gives me unconditional love, makes me laugh, and teaches me certain things from a dog’s point of view that only a person who has ever had a dog may understand. I have been lucky to have had dogs all my life and there is no greater bond of friendship than that between a boy and his dog, to use the cliché loosely here, but by boy I think you can fill in girl, man, woman, whatever. There are reasons why humans and dogs get along so well. One is we have a similar sense of family structure and for a dog, the family becomes part of the pack and for the owner, we really become the dog’s caregiver as well as adopted Daddy or Mommy in a way I guess. As I write this Molly is patiently waiting by my chair, enjoying the cool spring breeze as it comes in through the windows. She’s little and sometimes she wants my attention so much that she will carve out a place on my table and sleep on a pillow, (otherwise she’d use the keyboard as one), and wait for me to finish, which can be hard sometimes because it makes me feel guilty and dogs are smart, they know how to manipulate their caregivers, but no more than I suspect children know how to manipulate their parents. It doesn’t always work, but if it never worked, they wouldn’t try at all. The filmmakers behind Molly & Me basically do the same in manipulating our emotions, but if it didn’t work most of the time, they wouldn’t try it, but that said, I still enjoyed the film and feel the Blu-ray Disc edition is worth a look.

Based on the book by John Grogan, Marley & Me tells the simple tale of how a young couple, played by Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, thinking about starting a family, adopt a Labrador puppy and how over the years the dog brings the best out of them even when Marley is not behaving as well as they would like. If I owned a house, I would get a Labrador too, but as one of the millions of apartment dwellers in New York City, I have a small dog. Molly is a longhaired Dachshund. However, for her a four room flat is like a house. So watching Marley & Me was fun partially from just being able to relate as person that has been around dogs at home for a large part of my life.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released Marley & Me as a 3 – Disc Bad Dog Edition as it is dubbed on Blu-ray, containing the film on DVD for the kids to watch presumably, and a third disc containing a digital copy for portable media devices. Presented on Blu-ray Disc in a 1080p resolution (where available) encoded in AVC MPEG-4 video in a (2.35:1) widescreen aspect ratio, Marley & Me looks sharp, bright and colorful throughout. An English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Soundtrack is encoded and is a discrete mix. Spanish, French, and Portuguese Language Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtracks are provided as options along with English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired and Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and Portuguese Language Subtitles.

The Blu-ray Disc extra value features include a series of featurettes covering the casting of the various dogs to play Marley in the feature (HD, 7:00), a mock featurette about the dog itself barking as our tour guide with subtitles (HD, 3:00), an extended EPK type featurette (HD, 8:00), the Purina Dog Chow Short Film Finalists (SD, 8:00), a reel of deleted scenes with optional Director commentary (SD, 26:00), Outtakes, and an animal adoption PSA (HD, 5:00). There’s also a trivia track that is exclusive to the Blu-ray Disc Edition, but only accessible to those with a Profile 1.1 compliant player.

Marley & Me: 3-Disc Bad Dog Edition is available now on Blu-ray Disc at retailers on and offline courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

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