6. Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011)
You remember
Marley & Me, don't you? It's the movie about that dog that you were so sure wasn't going to make you cry, and then what happened? You cried, didn't you? No shame in that, of course, it's just a little bit embarrassing that you said you wasn't going to cry. You know who else was crying when
Marley & Me ended, though for totally different reasons? Its producers. Why? Because (spoiler, I suppose) when they killed off that cutesy mutt, they also killed off any chance of a making a sequel. A sequel that would have totally made millions. Which is why, I guess,
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years exists. It's a prequel, of course, set during a period of time they skipped over in the original movie (conveniently the same period of time that means Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston don't have to make an appearance). The weirdest thing about this straight-to-DVD child exploitation device, though, is that Marley is imbued with the power of speech. Seriously. He talks using voiceover. It's a weird embellishment that makes it even more disturbing when you remember that Marley
dies.