Why so much hype?

Good concept, poorly executed.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Succinctly, the first half is slow but the second half really hits home.Solodz expertly weaves through the darkness and finds pockets of light without ever betraying the tragedy of it all. I enjoyed this more than most of his films aside from Happiness. Enjoyed not being the operative world.Wonderful cameos. Great concept. If you can't relate to any of these people in some form, you haven't yet lived. Fantastic. Warning, don't eat while watching this film. Peace.

As a former fan of Todd Solondz' work, I was eager to view "Wiener-Dog". There were harbingers of disappointment in the first vignette, but not until the last 20 minutes of the film was I forced to resign myself to the sad reality that Solondz has become a victim of his own filmic nihilism in that he has become an auteur of ugly, boring, artistically hollow visions. His treatment of each of the separate narratives of this film reveals what one fears is an unintentionally autobiographical snapshot of his own fears as a film maker and a creator. The only redeeming moments in this rather masturbatory work come through some of the performances of the cast. However, for the regrettable experience that it is to fidget and sigh ones way through this film, it is still not worth the time, effort and disappointment required to view it - particularly if one is or ever was a fan of Solondz' work. Initially, I felt a pang of disappointment at seeing that Heather Matarazzo would not be reprising her role as Dawn... however, I quickly realized the blessing at not having this minor atrocity tread on her interpretation of the character. At least some part of Solondz' legacy was left unscarred by this film-- even it was only the characterization that a gifted child actor brought to the titular role in a previous incarnation. If you loved or cared for "Welcome to the Dollhouse", or any other Solondz' other, earlier works... steer clear of this one.

OK so I have watched almost 20 minutes of this heaping pile of garbage that someone decided to call a movie. First off, who are these actors and where did they find them? TERRIBLE TERRIBLE acting. And believe me I watch some pretty stupid crap and like it.... The parents are so stiff and seem like strangers, the mother talks to her maybe?! 8/9 year old kid about a little poodle her mother found, who was raped by a neighborhood stray, who has a pretty racist name, and how the poodle died because she got pregnant from said stray and got AIDS.... WHO TALKS TO THEIR KIDS LIKE THAT?!?!?!?! And the father,who the hell is this guy? He's like a friggen robot with his acting. Did he take William Shatner and David Caruso's acting courses???? I can't even bring myself to watch anymore because this has actually angered me so much in about 17 minutes.

As i watched this movie i had a few good laughs.. but in the end, i failed to get the point. If there was one.. the acting is stiff and artificial, which by all means may have been intended, but not to my liking. The interconnected stories didn't connect at all which made the plot impressively uninteresting. Was it even the same dog pictured throughout the movie? Who knows... the humor is quirky, dark and bizarre, I can give credit for that, but there is no story.. Half way through I started yawning and towards the end of the movie I longed for it to end. Even so I rate this movie with a 6, since it was actually funny, when you managed to look past the pointlessness of it all.