| Movie DescriptionMarmaduke (v. Owen Wilson) is a Great Dane living in rural Kansas with a cat named Carlos (v. George Lopez) His owner Phil (Lee Pace) works for Bark Organic dog food. Phil is very strict, from Marmaduke's perspective.
One day, Carlos tells Marmaduke that he overheard Phil saying that they were being transferred to Orange County. They move from Kansas into their new house in California. Phil's boss, Don Twombly (William H Macy) has the goal of getting Bark Organic into every Petco store in the country. Phil and Don meet at the dog park to discuss Phil's assignment - an ad campaign to win over Petco - where Marmaduke meets a beautiful dog named Jezebel (v. Fergie), whose boyfriend is Bosco (v. Kiefer Sutherland), a controlling and violent dog with two minions named Thunder and Lighting. Bosco intimidates Marmaduke, who does not want to fight.
Marmaduke then meets Mazie (v. Emma Stone), who develops a crush on Marmaduke. He also meets Giuseppe (v. Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a Chinese Crested dog who is afraid of everything, and Raisin, a highly-intelligent but decidedly minute Dachshund. They get together at night and crash a party thrown by Bosco for pedigrees only, only to be scared away by Bosco. Marmaduke then asks Mazie to help him get a girl, whom she presumes is herself, but is actually Jezebel.
Marmaduke has Carlos (the other family pet, the cat) pretend to be lost in the dog park and the two stage a fight in front of all the other dogs in order to boost Marmaduke's perceived toughness. Marmaduke then enters a dog surfing contest put together as a promotional stunt by Phil (to sway Petco) and beats Bosco, who is an established dog-surfing champion. They get in a dog fight, which appalls the Petco executives. |
