Way back in 2006 my pet turtle was in a local tv commercial. About 3 days after filming a check for $75 came in the mail made out to 'Cosmo the turtle'....
That's interesting to learn! It is usually white=purity in films in the West; which makes me wonder if Chinese viewers of movies with white=purity end up thinking, "Why does she dress like a ghost?"
It would have been funny if Lisa ran up to a golden retriever after Prince broke up with her, she confesses her love to him, and then the dog's owner walks up and is like "What the fuck are you doing lady?"
It's at the end of a sad montage where she keeps looking longingly at dog-related things like chew toys and watching Old Yeller while eating a bucketful of ice cream. Meanwhile we hear an echo of Prince's disembodied voice calling her a pizza-faced cinderblock.
Learning that the voice actor for the dog thought this was an animated movie at first makes SO much more sense- he definitely gives the dog the voice you'd expect in a kids movie and not the weirdly serious and dark film you get
I saw one shot of the guy in a dog collar and was immediately wishing youtube comments allowed me to post the "The Writers Barely Disguised Fetish" screenshot.
As someone who speaks Chinese and has read her share of manga, manwha, watched some Asian cinema... I don't know exactly how, but the director being a Chinese woman makes a lot of sense to me. I have to collect my thoughts and watch the entire video, but what I can say from the get go is that Asian romances tend to be a lot wilder as far as what they consider appropriate to include.
As a non-asian, this absolutely sounds like the plot of a manhwa. In fact it is. It's called Lady and the Beast. This isn't even the only one I've seen. It's just the only I've read.
The dialogue reminds me of a Chinese manhua/comic that was translated, but no proof reading was done. Which makes sense, seeing as that's basically what happened.
I seem to remember a short-lived Nickelodeon show similar to this. There was this bad kid who was cursed to live as a dog, and to undo the curse he has to do one-hundred good deeds.
I would love to see then try to out one-line this movie now if they haven't taken a crack at it yet. Them or Rifftrax. I'll take either or at this point.
More importantly; the reincarnated Alvin Flang was born to someone when that dog died. That bad-wigged goober turned into an old man and then got married and turned young again and all this is happening to someone who presumably until then had a family, friends, a life, maybe even a significant other? How does this change for them? Does he show up one day later with just YEARS of extra memories and a wife?
Love on the Leash is, for me, the Citizen Kane of Bad Movies. It does what truly great bad movies do in creating or rather re-creating 'reality' with a vision that is at once alien and yet just real enough to, but in a terrible way. Somehow it all works to help you to continue to watch and be entertained in an opened mouth awe-inspiring way. Due to the subject matter itself, more ambitious and weird than The Room, yet not the budget. It's got such a strange rhythm to the everyday that reminded me of David Lynch and how he plays with character and oddness The first time I watched it I was slackjawed in awe throughout. The 2nd time it was like I started to change into the reality of the film, like I transformed into it. And unlike lesser bad movies every decision is so weird, focused and fascinating, yet rivetting and entertaining. I feel like it moves genre into performance art in its strangeness. LOTL should be studied in film school. And I don't think I'm even joking.
Hey, big fan here, and I'm that someone who uploaded a copy of Love on a Leash with music. I was really lucky to find a "correct" dvd, and the movie is just precious. Happy it could help!
Well, that was indeed a crazy one. Basically, a reverse werewolf story, with a dash of beauty & the beast. It's good to know that a real-life romance came out of it. Thanks for the review.
Air Bud may have shown us a golden retriever can participate in a lot of human activities, but this is one situation that is definitely against the rulebook!
Glickman had some improvisation experience and he did indeed run with it! Judging from interviews he’s a really nice guy but evidently he realized the dog character was supposed to be rather a putz and made sure it would be!
I like how they didn't even reinforce the tail so it would actually act like a tail instead of like a floppy strip of fake fur fabric they got at a craft store.
This isn't a movie about a love story between a woman and a dog, it's a a story about a woman and the constant psychological torment she is continually subjected to by literally every other character.
I'm having flashbacks to the Norm McDonald as a Pigeon story on Mike Tyson Mysteries. I'm actually disappointed that the Film didn't end with the pair both becoming Dogs together.
My wife and i love this movie. We quote it all the time. Famous lines like: "YEAH RIGHT! You really know how to lie!" "What? You mean you don't weigh yourself, at least twice, daily?" Or my favorite, "Who says 'indigo?' what kind of planet am I on!?" Also, why didn't Alvin just take Lisa to the pond, when in human form? 😆
Well, with us living in an age of movies doing remakes and stories told before many times, I guess I give the movie credit for not being something that's been done before. I doubt there is a category of "Romcoms of falling in love with your dog." At least I HOPE there's not one.
@@runeanonymous9760 You know I had heard before that Comet was a kryptonian whose mind was trapped in a horse, but according to Wiki, he was a centaur who wanted to be full human but accidentally turned full horse. He did actually have the ability to turn temporarily human for awhile so it's even more parallel.
Can't wait for the crossover with "A talking cat?!" where Duffy and Prince go around helping people with love advice, with Alvin constantly insulting people and Duffy being on the brink of falling asleep. Every episode ends with them both getting hit by a speeding car and winding up in the hospital with loosely-applied bandages, before being reincarnated for their next mission in whatever time-warp universe this seems to take place in.
Okay if there is a color theory at play here, Green in China is traditionally associated with purity and cleanliness. This can be interpreted to be fertility as well. Maybe that’s at play here?
mind blowing you found a weather girl photo in a green dress.... when they use Green screen, but it works for the themes of this film. Wonderful video.
Well, that was a bit of editing trickery. After I edited out and replaced the caption, I realised the pink dress in the original still was missing that Lisa always wears green, so I shifted the colour digitally.
It depresses me this isn’t the first media product I’ve heard about where a woman or girl does weird things with her actual dog (thanks My Life as Inukai san’s Dog your contribution to the anime community will stain its legacy a little further)
This reminds me of a small subpart of Authorian legend, where one of the knights meets a woman named Ragnul, who is a beautiful woman by day but turns into a pig (?) at night. She asks him if he'd rather she was a woman at day or at night, but he tells her that it should be her choice and so it's up to her, which breaks the curse (somehow?) And they are happily married at the end
@@MediumRareOpinions hmmmm, given Phelan’s history with Mortal Kombat, I’m inclined to believe that it’s Outworld. Besides, the Marita is in another castle. XD
I'm glad you mentioned Who Killed Captain Alex, because as soon as I heard Alvin Flang's "riffing" or "commentary" I immediately labeled him as a "Video Joker" in my head. I'm not massively surprised the two actually got married IRL; meeting in circumstances *this* laughably bizarre is bound to leave a lasting impact (and conversation-starter for life).
This movie (and the behind the scenes for it) is nuts, great to see you do a video on it. You actually included some clips/plot points I don't remember seeing in other reviews, so I appreciate the additional Love on a Leash lore 😂
Not only is there a Lisa with a messed-up love life, human Prince reminds me of Greg Sestero and Lisa's mom has a similar personality to the other Lisa's mom, Claudette. 😅
I expected better out of Peter Davison as the composer. Even if he’s one of my least favorite doctors, he’s still a time lord, you think he would have been able to put music in.
I’ve seen reviews of this movie in my recommendations for years and always assumed that it was like a Hallmark plot where this Golden Retriever helps its owner find love. Boy were my assumptions wrong. 😟 -Yuh pizza faced cinderblock-
Oh my god this movie, never have I seen a pitch that would immediately bring up so many red flags, then turns out to raise red flags you didn’t even know were possible. How do you make a Golden Retriever unlikable.
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Hope you enjoy the video, I had a lot of fun editing it!
SYMBOLISM
Is Alvin Flang related to Brian Flim by any chance?
I can tell 😄
Your editing was always my favorite part of your videos.
Not enough green
It's low-key inspiring how an elderly Chinese lady was like "Y'know what? I'm not getting any younger. I'm gonna make a movie."
Way back in 2006 my pet turtle was in a local tv commercial. About 3 days after filming a check for $75 came in the mail made out to 'Cosmo the turtle'....
I hope Cosmo wandered over to the set alone and they hired him on the spot.
@@AllisonPregler Not trying to 'actually' you just pointing out how dumb paperwork can be, it fries your brains!!
I found the story delightful, thank you for sharing!
The delivery of the line “Don’t spend it all on green clothing” is magical
“Not all green! Ewww!!! 🤢”
Green symbolizes purity in China. Lisa's decorated her whole house green because the director really wants you to know she's a virgin.
It's a shame she went with fucking PAINTER'S TAPE GREEN and not something a little nicer, at least.
That's interesting to learn! It is usually white=purity in films in the West; which makes me wonder if Chinese viewers of movies with white=purity end up thinking, "Why does she dress like a ghost?"
According to an interview Steven did, he was told that green means HORNY in China!
@@user-lb9xw4xf2q Probably. When I lived in Hong Kong I remember learning white was a mourning color instead of black.
SYMBOLISM!!!
It would have been funny if Lisa ran up to a golden retriever after Prince broke up with her, she confesses her love to him, and then the dog's owner walks up and is like "What the fuck are you doing lady?"
It's at the end of a sad montage where she keeps looking longingly at dog-related things like chew toys and watching Old Yeller while eating a bucketful of ice cream. Meanwhile we hear an echo of Prince's disembodied voice calling her a pizza-faced cinderblock.
Learning that the voice actor for the dog thought this was an animated movie at first makes SO much more sense- he definitely gives the dog the voice you'd expect in a kids movie and not the weirdly serious and dark film you get
there’s an online interview with him about the movie made by youtuber Ralphthemoviemaker
If anything, this movie has added Pizza Face Cinderblock to my insult vernacular.
I saw one shot of the guy in a dog collar and was immediately wishing youtube comments allowed me to post the "The Writers Barely Disguised Fetish" screenshot.
IT'S NOT WEIRD ARRARRARRARRARR
Erm... Uh oh, Bonios?
As someone who speaks Chinese and has read her share of manga, manwha, watched some Asian cinema... I don't know exactly how, but the director being a Chinese woman makes a lot of sense to me.
I have to collect my thoughts and watch the entire video, but what I can say from the get go is that Asian romances tend to be a lot wilder as far as what they consider appropriate to include.
As a non-asian, this absolutely sounds like the plot of a manhwa. In fact it is. It's called Lady and the Beast. This isn't even the only one I've seen. It's just the only I've read.
Them finding love on a terrible movie set is pretty similar to Allison and Phelan meeting through a terrible website that hosts videos.❤
can't believe we got love on a leashed
Oh my god, why did this make me laugh so hard?
@@AllisonPreglerand wasn't Phelan a cat at one point?
😭
@@SalazarArtNationthat is correct 😂
I just keep playing 15:06 over and over, I love how Phelan can barely believe what he's saying or get the words out xD
The dog's voiceover kind of makes me wonder if my cat's just been making fun of us for almost 19 years and we just haven't noticed it yet.
I mean it’s a cat, of course it is. 💀
Alison and Phelous reviewing a bad movie with a talking dog is like peanut butter and jelly.
*AINT NO RULE...*
Nah, peanut butter and jelly is overrated. Allison and Phelous are underrated.
Surprised you didn't mention the dog constantly breaking into songs.
"Cuz I'm a dog, and it hurts my feet when it's hot outside, cuz I'm a dog!"
I think that Glickman noticed the lack of music and decided to provide some by singing!
The dialogue reminds me of a Chinese manhua/comic that was translated, but no proof reading was done. Which makes sense, seeing as that's basically what happened.
I seem to remember a short-lived Nickelodeon show similar to this. There was this bad kid who was cursed to live as a dog, and to undo the curse he has to do one-hundred good deeds.
100 Good Deeds for Eddie McDowd!
"Don't spend it all on green clothing" is fantastic. He sounds exactly like someone on MST3K.
I would love to see then try to out one-line this movie now if they haven't taken a crack at it yet. Them or Rifftrax. I'll take either or at this point.
With any luck they'll make of prequel chronicling Alvin Shcwang's 90's year, living out in California and harassing Mitch Buchannan.
More importantly; the reincarnated Alvin Flang was born to someone when that dog died. That bad-wigged goober turned into an old man and then got married and turned young again and all this is happening to someone who presumably until then had a family, friends, a life, maybe even a significant other? How does this change for them? Does he show up one day later with just YEARS of extra memories and a wife?
Love on the Leash is, for me, the Citizen Kane of Bad Movies. It does what truly great bad movies do in creating or rather re-creating 'reality' with a vision that is at once alien and yet just real enough to, but in a terrible way. Somehow it all works to help you to continue to watch and be entertained in an opened mouth awe-inspiring way. Due to the subject matter itself, more ambitious and weird than The Room, yet not the budget. It's got such a strange rhythm to the everyday that reminded me of David Lynch and how he plays with character and oddness The first time I watched it I was slackjawed in awe throughout. The 2nd time it was like I started to change into the reality of the film, like I transformed into it. And unlike lesser bad movies every decision is so weird, focused and fascinating, yet rivetting and entertaining. I feel like it moves genre into performance art in its strangeness. LOTL should be studied in film school. And I don't think I'm even joking.
I can't believe they made a golden retriever unlikable
I met a real one that attacked my family’s labradoodle one thanksgiving, giving our dog ptsd.
Hey, big fan here, and I'm that someone who uploaded a copy of Love on a Leash with music.
I was really lucky to find a "correct" dvd, and the movie is just precious. Happy it could help!
Thanks so much for sharing it with the world!
Apparently the color green traditionally symbolizes happiness and fertility, of which this movie features neither.
as bad as the movie is, the dog is still cute, I wanna pet him
Me too, but remember, he is not gay.
He's probably a good boy.
It's a double dose of Phelous Phriday A Power Ranger Robot Ninja Turtle toy examination and "A F@#$ing Dog?!?" movie review with Allison.
"Love at first bark"? I'd have gone with "Bestiality has never been more romantic"
This looks like a great double feature with Vampire Dog 😂 the dog's ad libs are hilarious, great vid Allison
Well, that was indeed a crazy one. Basically, a reverse werewolf story, with a dash of beauty & the beast. It's good to know that a real-life romance came out of it. Thanks for the review.
37:50 this edit made me laugh til I was crying holy shit God bless your editor
Edit: just realized who edited this; God Bless FilmBrain
He’s the best!!
All hail the Whambulance!
I can't believe Gustavo from Big Time Rush voiced the dog in this. He always was the funniest person on the show
Oh😂I see
My goat
"DOOOOGGGSSS!"
It's not baywatching, but I just wanted to say that I kept saying "Son of a Mitch" while failing at a minigame in Stardew Valley
I love your profile pic!
@@taliaroses thanks!
Air Bud may have shown us a golden retriever can participate in a lot of human activities, but this is one situation that is definitely against the rulebook!
A week after you watch this movie a dog will climb out of your TV and make you watch Turner & Hooch
After all these years it's still really good seeing you both together. Truly makes me happy to see ya both thriving
The dog being dubbed is like if the "Wizard People, Dear Reader" guy was somehow IN the Harry Potter movie.
Brad Neely. Also did The Professor Brothers and China, IL among other things
*You Pizza-Faced Cinderblock!* ah, we're reaching Food Fight levels of doggy insults, *You Cold Farted Itch!*
XD
Glickman had some improvisation experience and he did indeed run with it! Judging from interviews he’s a really nice guy but evidently he realized the dog character was supposed to be rather a putz and made sure it would be!
I like how they didn't even reinforce the tail so it would actually act like a tail instead of like a floppy strip of fake fur fabric they got at a craft store.
Love the Snoopy shirt that Phelous chose for this review lol
An Allison/Phelan review? Yes! A perfect way to start a Friday.
Damn, that guy's the smoothest operator of all time. "I'm not into you at all, will you marry me"
So, someone's fetish turned into a Lifetime movie?
Puppy love in the most disturbing way possible
Everything this Dog says just sounds like Phelan's line dubs in his videos.
This isn't a movie about a love story between a woman and a dog, it's a a story about a woman and the constant psychological torment she is continually subjected to by literally every other character.
I'm having flashbacks to the Norm McDonald as a Pigeon story on Mike Tyson Mysteries.
I'm actually disappointed that the Film didn't end with the pair both becoming Dogs together.
Kinda like Fruit Basket but weather dependant.
Also, doggo actor did a good job. Sat when told sat, swim when told swim. Good boy!
Imagine beign the kids the actors had because they met each other in this "film". Imagine owning your existance to Love on a Leash
My wife and i love this movie. We quote it all the time. Famous lines like: "YEAH RIGHT! You really know how to lie!" "What? You mean you don't weigh yourself, at least twice, daily?" Or my favorite, "Who says 'indigo?' what kind of planet am I on!?"
Also, why didn't Alvin just take Lisa to the pond, when in human form? 😆
This is what happens when you mix David DeCoteau's talking animal movies with his 1313 movies.
Don't give him ideas. Soon, we'll get a homoerotic warlock coven movie from him with werewolves.
At least if someone makes a porn parody they don't have to change the name
Oh hell yeah I saw this reviewed by another channel and was hoping y'all would cover it eventually
The commentary from the dog seems pretty funny, but yeah I'm glad you guys are reviewing this. Thank you
Wow, Air Bud Entertainment really let themselves go 😂
Well, with us living in an age of movies doing remakes and stories told before many times, I guess I give the movie credit for not being something that's been done before. I doubt there is a category of "Romcoms of falling in love with your dog." At least I HOPE there's not one.
the next DCEU movie should be this with Supergirl and Comet the Superhorse, which actually happened in the comics
@@runeanonymous9760 You know I had heard before that Comet was a kryptonian whose mind was trapped in a horse, but according to Wiki, he was a centaur who wanted to be full human but accidentally turned full horse.
He did actually have the ability to turn temporarily human for awhile so it's even more parallel.
Can't wait for the crossover with "A talking cat?!" where Duffy and Prince go around helping people with love advice, with Alvin constantly insulting people and Duffy being on the brink of falling asleep. Every episode ends with them both getting hit by a speeding car and winding up in the hospital with loosely-applied bandages, before being reincarnated for their next mission in whatever time-warp universe this seems to take place in.
This is the kind of movie you find at gas stations next to those Roy D. Mercy CDs and counter cookies that has been sitting there for several weeks.
He's a dog during the day, but human at night? Isn't that the best of both worlds?!
I love you guys tell the context and story behind the movie, it makes the commentary so much better.
this movie sure is the dog's dinner
OH GOD... !!!
This is so painful.
Okay if there is a color theory at play here, Green in China is traditionally associated with purity and cleanliness. This can be interpreted to be fertility as well. Maybe that’s at play here?
I'd say RiffTrax needs to do this movie but it looks like Stephen Kramer Glickman did the job for them.
You guys have such great energy together; this video was so much fun
I'd make a peanut butter joke but I'm eating some right now. No dogs involved, I swear.
My first thought when this popped up was “Dammit Allison!”
I’m about to watch but I feel a lot of heavy sighs , and Oh, Lawds coming on.
They were going to use this idea on Baywatch when Stephanie got reincarnated, but the dog took one look at the script and noped out.
mind blowing you found a weather girl photo in a green dress.... when they use Green screen, but it works for the themes of this film. Wonderful video.
Well, that was a bit of editing trickery. After I edited out and replaced the caption, I realised the pink dress in the original still was missing that Lisa always wears green, so I shifted the colour digitally.
Ya'll realize it's near impossible not to make Howard the Duck jokes 2 seconds in, right?
Bow chicka quack quack
My favorite Movie Nights video so far!
It depresses me this isn’t the first media product I’ve heard about where a woman or girl does weird things with her actual dog (thanks My Life as Inukai san’s Dog your contribution to the anime community will stain its legacy a little further)
Prince desire to become human is most certainly dogged determination
This reminds me of a small subpart of Authorian legend, where one of the knights meets a woman named Ragnul, who is a beautiful woman by day but turns into a pig (?) at night. She asks him if he'd rather she was a woman at day or at night, but he tells her that it should be her choice and so it's up to her, which breaks the curse (somehow?) And they are happily married at the end
on a side note, apparently Phelan must of had his home taken over by Shao Kahn because his background looks like the purple skies of Outworld.
He's just hanging out at Pat Morita's purple sky castle.
@@MediumRareOpinions hmmmm, given Phelan’s history with Mortal Kombat, I’m inclined to believe that it’s Outworld. Besides, the Marita is in another castle. XD
We didn't realize how good we had it with 50 Shades.
Nine and 1/2 weeks is the good version of 50 shades of grey
Imagine if Steph-Dog showed up in this movie as the angel on the dogs shoulder
"Just push her off!"
Did you guys deliberately go for the green t shirt and beige t shirt to match the main characters in the film or was it purely by accident?
I'm glad you mentioned Who Killed Captain Alex, because as soon as I heard Alvin Flang's "riffing" or "commentary" I immediately labeled him as a "Video Joker" in my head.
I'm not massively surprised the two actually got married IRL; meeting in circumstances *this* laughably bizarre is bound to leave a lasting impact (and conversation-starter for life).
I think we all know the secret to changing back: Groppler Zorn.
That green- it's like Granny Smith mixed with chartreuse and the result was Dalek-level hatred.
This movie (and the behind the scenes for it) is nuts, great to see you do a video on it. You actually included some clips/plot points I don't remember seeing in other reviews, so I appreciate the additional Love on a Leash lore 😂
Great episode ~ had me laughing so hard 🤣
Not only is there a Lisa with a messed-up love life, human Prince reminds me of Greg Sestero and Lisa's mom has a similar personality to the other Lisa's mom, Claudette. 😅
Ralphthemoviemaker's favorite movie!!!! 😂
Exactly 😂
Ah yes, who isn't waiting for virginity?
I’ve had over sixty years of it…
Since watching this, "pizza-faced cinderblock" has been stuck in my head. Curse you.
Y'know, people clown on The Room a lot, but at least Tommy Wiseau had basic understanding of scene continuity.
Well, he hired people with an understanding of scene continuity lol
@@AllisonPregler Money well spent!
@@AllisonPregler Is that why it allegedly cost $6 million?
Missed oppurtunity to call this movie Princess and the Dog
Your vids are always so fun and comforting
Thank you!!
Thank you for bringing this film into my world!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!
Dog is such a Golden Negtriever!
I feel attacked, my house is almost as green as hers.
I expected better out of Peter Davison as the composer. Even if he’s one of my least favorite doctors, he’s still a time lord, you think he would have been able to put music in.
I'm so glad you've finally been introduced to the Lord-King, Alvin Flang.
I want to see you do an episode of Animorphs after that. Lol
Lololol there's a lot of manga with this kind of storyline. Read one just last night actually 😂
How have I never heard of this movie
I’ve seen reviews of this movie in my recommendations for years and always assumed that it was like a Hallmark plot where this Golden Retriever helps its owner find love.
Boy were my assumptions wrong. 😟
-Yuh pizza faced cinderblock-
Oh my god this movie, never have I seen a pitch that would immediately bring up so many red flags, then turns out to raise red flags you didn’t even know were possible. How do you make a Golden Retriever unlikable.