Jul 9 2009'Heavy Petting': Another Great Dog Romance
I don't want to get in the habit of posting about two-year-old movies, but IWS reader Randy sent in the poster and DVD art for Heavy Petting--a 2007 romantic comedy starring Watchmen's Malin Akerman--and with my love for terrible, dogs-doing-human-things movies, they were too ridiculous to ignore.
I love that, after the first terrible poster, the only ideas for revisions were dropping the pun, making everyone orange, and blatantly replacing the dog's head with another dog head with a crazier tongue--"and make sure this dog is making uncomfortable eye contact with the audience as it paws at the woman's breasts!"
The Amazon summary is really good too:
When Charlie (Brendan Hines) meets Daphne (Malin Akerman), the girl of his dreams, he never expects he’ll have to battle past her pet dog "Babydoll" to win her heart. Just when it seems he can’t beat the beast, and all is lost, something unexpected happens. Charlie begins to fall in love with the dog himself, realizing he never really needed a girlfriend in the first place. Now, in order to keep hanging out with "man’s best friend," Charlie must scramble to keep his relationship with Daphne going at all costs, or risk losing them both.
He falls in love with the dog! I think I've just found the perfect double-feature complement for Marley & Me night (every Wednesday)!
Reader Comments
1. bribios - July 9, 2009 4:51 PM
Please tell me Kevin Sussman is the dogs name.
2. james - July 9, 2009 4:59 PM
@ bribios: exactly what I first thought. that is a pretty cool dog name.
3. Nick - July 9, 2009 5:45 PM
Haha. I didn't even catch that.
4. AtomicSquid - July 9, 2009 5:58 PM
I bet the original dog sued them for using his likeness so they replaced his head with the head of a dog that has less scruples...
5. bringerzl - July 9, 2009 7:56 PM
The photoshopped dog makes it funny
6. Rich Waffle-U - July 10, 2009 3:51 AM
From the Amazon synopsis, it's difficult to tell whether this will be a comedy or a dark portrayal of one man's psychologically difficult introduction to the world of bestiality.
7. glace neuf - July 10, 2009 1:24 PM
this movie brings the HEAT!
8. Cash - July 10, 2009 2:19 PM
How is that dog staying at cheek-level, as his front feet are just dangling in the air?
Gravity defying dog scares me!
9. Remegy - October 6, 2009 9:41 PM
he he he... Heavy Petting...
(Don't you just LOVE immature sex jokes?)