Love Gone to the Dogs is a rom-com between a single mom with a very accident-prone family and a doctor, who's also the town's mayor. The situation was a bit too slapstick for me, and the characterization, esp. the nemesis a bit shallow, but rom-coms are not meant to be character studies.
Just to recap... Single mom Leah Taylor just moved to town with her grandpa (an inventor prone to mishap), two sons (one's a sports hero, other's a nerd genius) and one beagle who knows what he wants and has a talent of sneaking out of fences and doors. They were basically asked kindly to leave their previous town after a couple mishaps with grandpa's experiments. However, not long after arrival in this town, the beagle went after her neighbor's newspaper... and her neighbor, Dr. Shane O'Grady, was also the mayor. Before they can sort that out, the beagle went after his champion bichon as well... While Leah and Sean seem to like each other on a personal level, and so did their dogs (much to his dismay), their situation forced them to different sides of the issues, regarding her sons (one of them had an accident with a homemade hang-glider), her grandpa (who's making a move on his mother!), and regarding the experiments (one of which blacked out the neighborhood!). When a different neighbor organized a signature drive to show the Taylors the way out of town, Sean, as mayor, was forced to make a choice... Ask Leah to stay... or cut bait and run? And will Leah make a run for it ahead of time?
The characters feel like they're almost hamming it up for the camera, being just a bit MORE outraged than the situation called for, or a bit too nonchalant about the situation, and some of the situations were just... cliche? Trope? But overall, decent piece of writing for the chuckles. If you like sit-coms, this may be 4/5, but this feels more sit-com than rom-com.
Category: contemporary / comedy
Primary Plot: Single mom and accident-prone family found herself falling for the doctor next door, who's also the mayor...
Tropes: small town, doctor/patient, single parent, crazy grandparent, pets, enemies to lovers
Overall Rating: 3/5
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