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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Although this film can stand proudly on its own, its themes, rhythms and camera work are strongly reminiscent of Italian Neorealism in general and Vittorio De Sica's "Umberto D." in particular. Indeed, I was surprised to find that the script came from a story by the film's writer Jonathan Raymond, because it feels more like director Kelly Reichart's homage to those wonderful Italian films of the 40s and 50s where hope and despair walk hand in hand and grit replaces glamour.This is the story of a young woman and her dog, lost in the middle of a recession and stranded at the frayed edge of an apathetic country. The dog is good, but it is the young woman who steals the show. Michelle Williams is always believable and always interesting, and that's good news because she's on screen nearly every minute of this film.Since her role in this film, Williams has gone from strength to strength, and is arguably one of the most intriguing talents in acting today. It is to be hoped that we hear more from Reichart as well, because with "Wendy and Lucy", she has shown us a deft hand and a kind and caring sensibility.

It always amazes me how a $200,000.00 low budget movie can move me more that a $200,000,000.00 computer generated piece of crap!!!! This "little" movie obviously is a prime example...You can actually feel the desperation and subtle panic in Michelle Williams' character in the market and garage. The scene with Lucy towards the end is heart-wrenching. Michelle Williams will win an Oscar someday!!! Great Little movie.......Great Little Movie......Great Little Movie......Great Little Movie......Great Little Movie....Great Little Movie......Great Little Movie......Great little Movie.......Great Little Movie...Sorry for so many "Great Little Movie" statements but I had to have a minimum of 10 Lines!!!

Wendy and Lucy (2008): There was a reason why 'Marley & Me' was mediocre. While it drew a nice draft of a life of a dog and a couple, it never went deeply into their conflicts. It always ended up with sappy jokes and over sentimental moments. All in all, while the things that were happening on the screen was realistic, it didn't feel realistic. 'Wendy and Lucy' is the total opposite. It didn't go throughly into the life of Wendy. It does not go into jokes or sentiment. And yet, it feels far more deeper and realistic than the other 'dog is a man's best friend films'.The film is not really about the dog Lucy, but about Wendy. We know nothing of her, except that she is going to Alaska and that she has a dog. She thinks of nothing else, but that she wants to go to Alaska, that she has some car trouble and that she needs to find her dog. This is the only determination that character has through out the film and that is why the story goes on.And the film talks about nothing else but that. Now, how authentic is that. Here's a character who doesn't have a fortune, who always gets kicked in the ass by reality. This is a character who seems so hopeless. This is the kind of character that we want to see to survive and to get what she wants. Unfortunately, she does not get the happy ending, as she, considering her financial status, leaves the dog behind with a man who seems to be rich (We never know for sure). And when she leaves the dog, we are so pain-struck that all you can do is to break down in tears. This is not sentimentality, but the tears we get from the sadness of such authentic dread.These kinds of loners are everywhere in the film. There are a bunch of people who make a fire and sit around it, while traveling and making comfort for themselves. There are teenagers walking down the street, talking about their tired mothers. Most memorably, there's a man who could be a serial killer, talking to Wendy in the night about how much he hates this town, how he killer more than 700 kids and how both of them were lost in the world. The film is full of them, simply to show that Wendy's not alone.Michelle William's performance is the reason why Wendy is such a great character. She is quite like Jodie Foster is 'The Silence of the Lambs'. She is small, pretty young girl with a determination and a goal. But who doesn't really have a good reality. Williams is going for bigger things I hope, in the future.The only problem of this film is that it's too short. But it's not a flaw. It simply means that I wanted more of the film. I wanted to see what happened to the characters. These are such deep through beings in the world. The film is so authentically brilliant that I could've sworn, I though I heard a dog bark when Lucy barked on screen.4/4

After having massively enjoyed watching the first season of Dawsons Creek in my teens, (which holds the unique honour of being the only TV season boxset,that I watched from the beginning to the end in one sitting!)I made sure to keep checking every so often to see what projects the actors were now making.When I finished watching James Van Der Beeks very good performance in the excellent jet-black comedy The Rules of Attrection,and I started to hear that Katie Holme had been cast in the new Batman film,my first through was that these two would be the main break out stars of the series.However,just as Batman Begins was about to come out,I noticed that people were starting to talk about a film that Michelle Williams was co-starring in,which seemed to be a small, low-budget film called Brokeback Mountain...The plot:Whilst Wendy (who only has her dog Lucy for a companion) is on her way for an important job interview,her car suddenly breaks down in the middle of nowhere.Realising that the town is completely dead at night,Wendy decides to sleep in the car and wait until morning.Almost as soon as the sun has risen,a security guard knocks on the car doors to tell,Wendy that she needs to move the car,due to it blocking a road.With the guard and Wendy having moved the car,Wendy decides to ask the guard if there is a near by supermarket,so that she can get some dog food for Lucy.Tieing up Lucy next to the supermarket,Wendy goes to get some tins of food for Lucy.As she gets nearer the till,Wendy begins to realise that she has to not waste a single penny that she has got on her.Which leads Wendy to deciding that she has to shoplift the food.Unluckally for her,she is easily spotted and taken to the police, to spend the whole night in jail.Having been released from the cell,Wendy goes rushing back to the supermarket,and discovers to her horror that Lucy is no longer there.With the kind help of the security guard,Wendy is able to get in contact with a local animal shelter (who tell her that they will keep an eye out for Lucy) and a near by car repair shop.But now,with her money more limited then ever,Wendy begins to wonder if there is anyway possible that she can afford for the car to get repaired,and pay for the food and blankets that she and Lucy will desperately need..View on the film:The first thing that caught my attention about the film was the astonishing performance from Michelle Williams as Wendy,who has taken the character in the complete opposite direction of her "high maintenance" character in Dawsons Creek.Williams makes the character someone that is very easy to relate to,even for people who have only ever had to face half the problems, that she faces in the film.This is helped by Williams brilliantly changing her physical appearance,which really helps to show how much Wendy is trying to keep her life moving,even when it seems that the world is determined to keep her on the outskirts of society.Along with Williams,Lucy the dog also gives a very good performance,with the way she interacts with Wendy being very natural,and helping to give a strong sense of companionship for Wendy.Although the screenplay does have a bit of an out-of-place, small sub-plot with a tramp which feels out of place,the main centre of the screenplay by writer/director Kelly Reichardt and Jon Raymond (who also wrote the short story Train Choir:which is the story that the film is based on)put the film into a painfully real reality,with Reichardt gritty,very grainy look helping to complement the fantastic screenplay in making a film that has only a hand full of characters,look like a place that you could easily find yourself in. Final view on the film:An amazing,grainy film,with a stunning performance by Williams and brilliant directing from Reichardt.