“Love on a Leash” Podcast Movie Review
02/18/20 • 70 min
Love on a Leash – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 57
“My name is Alvin Flang.”
Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell meet ineptitude with ineptitude in this technical issue-laden episode. This week, the hosts review Fen Tian’s unfathomably incompetent romantic comedy Love on a Leash. Fitting with a film that features myriad sound issues, Daniel and Corky bungled the audio on this one. However, it weirdly harmonizes with a movie that is essentially one bonkers nonsequitur after another.
A movie so dangerous that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, Love on a Leash is a truly unusual experience. Tian makes some of the most confounding, insane and possibly brilliant (but definitely insane) directorial decisions you could imagine. There is no musical score, but there is a credited composer. This light-hearted rom-com fantasy gives us scenes of attempted suicide and attempted rape, not to mention a tacit approval of bestiality. Also, the villain is a pond.
Technically, Love on a Leash is the highest-rated film of all-time on IMDB (thanks, internet!). But is it fake news, or is it the real deal?
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pointless ducks, Judge Reinhold high-fives, Ace bandage bras and pizza-faced cinderblocks.
LOVE ON A LEASH FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. DVD release date: Aug. 19, 2013
Critic scores: n/a
This week’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing‘s The Dankster Double IPA (8.8% ABV)
This week’s darer: Erica Shultz, host of the Customers Also Watched podcast
Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This movie is a triumph of ineptitude. There is no score or soundtrack, nothing makes sense, characters are color-coded, and everything is just hilariously bad. It’s a train wreck from which you can’t look away.”
IMDB synopsis: “Love takes a furry twist in this slice of romantic comedy. A young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret: by night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of the golden retriever and the friend who gives him a home.”
This week’s referenced movies: Forbidden Kiss; Look Who’s Talking Now; Theodore Rex; Like Father, Like Son; Vice Versa; Love Actually; Psycho (1960); Fargo; Goodfellas; 1917; Teen Wolf (1985); The Room; The Social Network; The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare
RELATED CLIPS
Ralph the Movie Maker reacts to “I’m a Dog”
Interview with actor Robert Lanza (aka Frank)
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Love on a Leash – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 57
“My name is Alvin Flang.”
Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell meet ineptitude with ineptitude in this technical issue-laden episode. This week, the hosts review Fen Tian’s unfathomably incompetent romantic comedy Love on a Leash. Fitting with a film that features myriad sound issues, Daniel and Corky bungled the audio on this one. However, it weirdly harmonizes with a movie that is essentially one bonkers nonsequitur after another.
A movie so dangerous that it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, Love on a Leash is a truly unusual experience. Tian makes some of the most confounding, insane and possibly brilliant (but definitely insane) directorial decisions you could imagine. There is no musical score, but there is a credited composer. This light-hearted rom-com fantasy gives us scenes of attempted suicide and attempted rape, not to mention a tacit approval of bestiality. Also, the villain is a pond.
Technically, Love on a Leash is the highest-rated film of all-time on IMDB (thanks, internet!). But is it fake news, or is it the real deal?
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss pointless ducks, Judge Reinhold high-fives, Ace bandage bras and pizza-faced cinderblocks.
LOVE ON A LEASH FACTS AND FIGURES
U.S. DVD release date: Aug. 19, 2013
Critic scores: n/a
This week’s craft beer: Lead Dog Brewing‘s The Dankster Double IPA (8.8% ABV)
This week’s darer: Erica Shultz, host of the Customers Also Watched podcast
Why did Erica dare Daniel and Corky to watch Love on a Leash? “This movie is a triumph of ineptitude. There is no score or soundtrack, nothing makes sense, characters are color-coded, and everything is just hilariously bad. It’s a train wreck from which you can’t look away.”
IMDB synopsis: “Love takes a furry twist in this slice of romantic comedy. A young woman falls for a stray dog with a secret: by night, it becomes a man. Follow the journey of the golden retriever and the friend who gives him a home.”
This week’s referenced movies: Forbidden Kiss; Look Who’s Talking Now; Theodore Rex; Like Father, Like Son; Vice Versa; Love Actually; Psycho (1960); Fargo; Goodfellas; 1917; Teen Wolf (1985); The Room; The Social Network; The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Ratings: Daniel – Double Dare; Corky – Double Dare
RELATED CLIPS
Ralph the Movie Maker reacts to “I’m a Dog”
Interview with actor Robert Lanza (aka Frank)
Follow Dare Daniel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Be sure to listen, rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and more. New episodes come out every other Tuesday! Help support the show by clicking the Donate button on the Dare Daniel homepage, and send us your movie dares. Read more of Daniel’s movie reviews at Dare Daniel and
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Dare Daniel Podcast – All Dares Episode 2
“Gold chains for all!”
Super-producer Johnny Flores is gone, but the show goes on. On this very special episode of the Dare Daniel podcast, hosts Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell read a bumper crop of bad movie dares. Daniel and Corky also offer their thoughts on the best and worst films of 2019. Finally, they look back at some recent episodes, while also looking ahead to 2020.
FACTS AND FIGURES
This week’s craft beer: Revision Brewing‘s Hazy Life NE IPA (7.75% ABV)
This week’s Dares: The Velocipastor (dared by Jaylen Mason); Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Robert Berry); The Face of Love (Rosemary Barnes); any Hallmark or Netflix Christmas movie (Vanessa McNetflix); Pokémon Detective Pikachu (David Paul); Dune (1984) (Jaina Sinclair); Left Behind: Vanished – Next Generation (Mrs. Buck Williams); Thankskilling 3 (Mr. Positivity Wolfie T); Think Big (Mike Dub); Caligula (Marco Cabodi)
Other referenced movies: Groundhog Day; Love Actually; Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas; God’s Not Dead 2; Legal Eagles; Knives Out; The Irishman; Uncut Gems; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; 1917; The Rise of Skywalker; Parasite; Pain & Glory; Assassins; Rolling Thunder Revue; Renaldo & Clara; Marriage Story; In Fabric; The Duke of Burgundy; Midsommar; Peterloo; Mr. Turner; Topsy-Turvy; Avengers: Endgame; Us; Hustlers; God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness; Glass; Aladdin; All Is True; Yesterday; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Somewhere in Time; Titanic; Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Heaven’s Gate; Ishtar; Eraserhead; An American Werewolf in Paris; Thankskilling; Norbit; Over the Top; Odd Jobs; Plan 9 from Outer Space; Myra Breckenridge; Leonard Part 6
RELATED CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS
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“The VelociPastor” Podcast Movie Review
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The VelociPastor – Dare Daniel Podcast Episode 58
“Self-consciously shitty is still shitty.”
Even the director of The VelociPastor believes that it would be a fool’s errand to find meaning in the film. Thankfully, we’ve got the two fools for the job. Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell dig deep into The VelociPastor, a genre sendup inspired by autocorrect.
The VelociPastor stars Greg Cohan as a priest who transforms into a cheap-looking dinosaur. Meanwhile, appealing newcomer Alyssa Kempinski plays Carol, a prostitute with a pancreas of pewter.
An absurd premise played absurdly for absurdity’s sake, The VelociPastor divided the hosts. Corky found the film funny and charming, but Daniel felt that the jokes didn’t land. The VelociPastor certainly leans into its micro-budget ineptitude. However, that pervasively smug self-awareness only makes the labored comedy bits more aggravating.
Elsewhere, Daniel and Corky discuss wormhole juice, ginger ninjas, dragon warrior antidotes and Aristophanes references.
NEW DARES
Charlie’s Angels (2019) (Charlie)
Kung Pao: Enter the Fist (William K. Wolfrum)
THE VELOCIPASTOR FACTS AND FIGURES
VOD release date: Aug. 13, 2019
Critic scores: 58 on Rotten Tomatoes
This week’s craft beer: Moonraker and Almanac’s Time Bender Hazy DIPA (8% ABV)
This week’s darer: Jaylen Mason
Why did Jaylen dare Daniel and Corky to watch The VelociPastor? “Because I don’t have the courage to watch it myself.”
IMDB synopsis: “After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.”
This week’s referenced movies: Love Actually; Titanic (1997); Love on a Leash; Fight Club; The Birds; Ed Wood; Hard to Kill; Charlie’s Angels (2000); Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Grindhouse; Sharknado; Birdemic; Spider-Man; The Graduate; Schindler’s List; Pan’s Labyrinth; Apocalypse Now; Airplane!; Top Secret!; The Great Escape; Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; God’s Not Dead 2; The Runaway Jury; This Is Spinal Tap; Jurassic Park; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; Dragged Across Concrete; the Star Wars movies; Alien; The Two Popes; The Girlfriend Experience; Hollywood Shuffle; The Foot Fist Way; Citizen Kane
Ratings: Daniel – Dare; Corky – Reverse Dare
RELATED CLIPS
The pastor becomes...the VelociPastor!
Forbes article about Brendan Steere
“You’re an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.”
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