Wonderful movie. Very VERY funny and entertaining. Diane Lane and John Cusack have great chemistry and Lane particluarly gives a great performance. 10 out of 10!

I loved this movie, Diane Lane and John CUsack have great chemistry and I love their characters. In fact, I love all the characters in this movie. They are very believable, especially Diane Lane's charachter's family. Wonderful movie.

An utter waste of celluloid. Okay, so maybe that's a bit over-the-top. After all, I've awarded the film two out of ten stars. Cusack *is* mildly amusing at times, but the screenplay reads like a high school student exercise. Absolutely *nothing* resembling character depth, *no* motivation, *no* chemistry between Lane and Cusack, and *waaay* too heavy on the product placement. In essence, Goldberg had no business stepping up from his sitcom roots and thinking he could direct a feature with anything more than sitcom sensibility.… Expand

Diane Lane is the hottest woman who has ever lived!!!!

Chick flick that won't even get your date hot and bothered. What a waste of talent.

Best romantic comedy in years. Diane Lane is excellent. Definitely go see this movie.

Light, Fluffy and entertaining. Its worth a night out and certainly better than most anything else available. Just because its not loud, flashy and moving so fast you can't tell what's happening, doesn't mean it isn't fun. The dialogue is pretty good, the acting is good and while its as predictable as a babies giggle, you might find yourself smiling and giggling yourself - which makes it worthwhile.… Expand

An incredible time waster. This movie proves just how much chemistry these recent romantic bore fests now contain...NOTHING. I yearn for flicks of the past where you could feel the awkward tension between the couple leading up to a overwhelming idea that they belong together. This movie reminded me of the horrid Alex and Emma, where the same banal characters and cookie cutter romantic scenes grace the screen. Back to the movie, while I think Lane and Cusack are fine actors in their own respect, together they are nothing short of a train wreck. I never felt any real connection. I could picture on the set when the director motioned to cut they probably separated and went to text their friends how boring their love interest is. I didn't smile once, just sat there with my sour patch kids and large coke and watched this trudge along like a traffic jam on the PCH. People that rave about this film make me question why independent movies or unique movie ideas even bother to exist. Please give me another TV remake, superhero movie, remake of a great classic and reduce it to a punchline, and especially cookie cutter romantic comedies. My gf liked this, but she is about as useless at reviewing movies as Leonard Maltin (oops, I'm mean!)… Expand

I laughed out loud a dozen times. Lots of fun even if it is fluff.

Lame and terribly boring. Predictable all the way. Great cast but not much to work with. Drags in many spots. Sound track is good.

Mostly amiable, but often implausible, predictable, and boring.

Cute - touching - a great date flick. Cusak delivers a good performance (as he always does) - his knack for dialogue seems to be getting sharper as he ages. Diane Lane is, as always, stunning. It's too bad she has been out of the picture for so many years - she really should be a superstar by now. And by my book - she is the most beautiful actress in the movies right now! So if you are looking for a light - romantic comedy - this si the flick for you (and your date!).… Expand

Well there goes 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. This dog doesn't hunt... at all! The only real talent I saw displayed was director Goldberg's Pit Bull-like ability to eviscerate the film's otherwise amazing cast of all its charm. Grrrr!

Endearing, funny not hilarious but funny in a sad way. good acting and pacing could've used more interesting scenes and dialogue though. beautiful actors.

They made Diane Lane out to be desperate and once none of her other first pick men pan out for boyfriends- then she realizes that John Cusack is the one she likes... Totally depressing that she should be so desparate less than a year out of a marriage to have family trying to find dates for her-- as if she isn't worth anything on her own.

Very lame and just weak. Not worth your hard earned time and money.

Great date movie! Don't look for brilliance... you won't find it here. But take a date and just enjoy the relative innocence and humor of two great actors trying to find love in modern times. In that case, you won't be disappointed.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen in theaters. I sincerely regret that I was not one of the many people who walked out during the show.

What is it about people--like John Cusack in this movie--who actually believe that Doctor Zhivago is a great romantic film? An engrossing political chronicle of Russia before and after it became the Soviet Union, yes...but come on, already! It's about a guy who marries the sweetest woman in the world and then finds all kinds of elaborate and tortuous methods for cheating on her before deserting her altogether! On the other hand, I guess Cusack's and Diane Lane's shared love of it (which, of course, makes them The Perfect Couple) isn't nearly as idiotic as the premise that a woman as incredibly attractive as Lane, fortysomething or no, has to resort to posting a high school photo on the Web to get guys to notice her. Writer-director Gary David Goldberg, who brought you the good TV sitcom Family Ties, the bad one Spin City and the underrated one Day by Day (whose child-care center setting is replicated here) proves, as TV vets venturing onto the big screen go, to be a poor man's Hugh Wilson and a homeless man's James L. Brooks. Every plot point, twist, turn, nook and cranny in his painfully predictable, ridiculously slavish to form romcom has been mapped out with a mathematical precision and finiteness that would be strangely impressive if it weren't so utterly lazy. Wacky family members and friends? Check. Potential partners that are attractive but totally wrong for our hero and heroine? Check and double check. Gay friends who are denied any depth, dimension or opportunity to do anything other than Be Supportive? Check-a-roonie! Superficial costuming device (in this case, Ramones T-shirts) designed to make the hero look hip and cutting edge? Gabba-gabba-check! An interminable series of increasingly contrived misunderstandings designed only to artificially keep the lovebirds apart and stretch out the movie's running time? Check-a-doodle-doo! (A point for semi-originality for the Searching For Trojans bit, though: it's been done before, too, but at least in several dozen fewer examples of Chick Cinema than all the above listed elements.) Equally dispiriting is how surprisingly mean-spirited Goldberg can be here: the running bit in which Lane verbally abuses a genuinely nice deli employee who's only doing his job is just loathsome, and so is the mileage the movie gets out of a male supporting character who's obviously in overwhelming emotional pain. (Unbelievably, this is the SECOND Diane Lane movie, following the equally phony and unwatchable Under the Tuscan Sun to use this joke: would it be funny in the least if we saw a feamale character sobbing her heart out throughout the film?) Lane seems to be conducting a one-woman campaign to obliterate fond memories of her brilliant work in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful here; I really do like her, Cusack, Christopher Plummer and Elizabeth Perkins (take one step back, Dermot Mulroney)...but the only cast members to survive this are Stockard Channing and Jordana Spiro, who invests her boilerplate-plus role as Cusack's ditzy Disposable Date with so many quirky, endearing and thoroughly original spins that I can only surmise that she got away with because Goldberg was out having a latte when he was supposed to be directing her scenes. Oh, yes...as the title indicates, there are two terrific canines in the movie too, but they only have peripheral roles; I'd say that the real bow-wows referred to in the title are Goldberg's script and direction...but to be completely fair, the quite favorable response that a large portion of my showing's audience gave this movie indicates that some people out there really Must Love Dogs.… Expand

This is the lowest grade i have given in a long long time. I would have given it an even lower score but it had several one line singers in it that made me laugh out loud. Usually I am very careful about the movies I go to but I was visiting a friend and he wanted to see it along with his girlfriend. All in all this was not a terrible movie, but it certainly wasn't good, surprising since Cusack has been in so many winners. He was brillant in Better off Dead. Now that's a great movie with a bit of romance thrown in. Must love Dog's bothered me for several reasons. First and fore most it's message was it is not o.k. to be alone. From the moment diane Lane's character was divorced her whole family of brothers, sisters, father, and gay friends, were constantly trying to fix her up. It was so contrived It was almost surreal. I had to ask myself if they were doing it on purpose to be arty but realized long before the end it was just weak writting. These people were so co-dependent it was nauseating. One of the few good things in this movie was in the very end she chased after him which is a rarity not only in the movies but real life. They could have done something with this but when it came time for the big speech she rattled off two sentences how she was scared to show her true self and everything was all better. If you tend to be really sappy to begin with you might actually like this movie but I still doubt you will think it great. For all others , unless you want a terminally average evening try something else like bowling, or see a terrific movie like Cinderalla Man. Must love Dogs in my opinion needs a few waps on the rump with a rolled up newspaper.… Expand

This movie is nowhere near as bad as reviewers and users say. But again, this is the site that includes Reversal of Fortune in the top 10 films of all time. It's not great but it's far from being a stinker. Snappy dialogue, some good laughs, yes very sappy and the ending defies all credibility - but worth seeing if you want a lite chick-flic. It plays like a TV movie of the week, sort of a cross between Desperate Housewives and a Tracy-Hepburn classic. Much more palatable than most North American fodder.… Expand

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

It was GREAT i could see it AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN.

Must love Crap.

Bland and flat. The characters have no chemistry. It's filled with tired romantic comedy chestnuts, like the family that suddenly bursts into a choreographed song at the dinner table. The dog angle was barely used and felt tacked on. It's like a computer created a bad Nora Ephron cloned movie, and this was the result.

Totally unnecessary and inconsequential, Must Love Dogs is pleasant enough to be palatable. The cast deserves much better material.

It was great. Totally enjoyable. Laughed all the way through it. Maybe it is a chic flic but even my husband loved it.

I would compare this movie to the one with Hugh Grant and Sandra Bullock.... No chemistry. The roles they each played wasnt really suited for them. But i liked the comedy tidbits.

I laughed the entire time. Great chemistry and John Cusack is his usual rumpled, hilarious self.