There were
whole subplots which could have been pared down, and I got rather tired of the main character's personal life.
Not exact matches
That's also true of the film as a
whole,
which is so elaborately plotted — crosscutting between past and future while keeping a good half - dozen
subplots spinning in the air — as to seem more like a contraption than a movie.
And of course there's a
whole freakin»
subplot about «what girls want,» via
which Marmaduke learns to be a better man and will — I shit you not — teach Lee Pace's harried dad to be a better dad.
And don't even get me started on the
whole mollusk exoskeleton
subplot,
which is almost laughable in its lame attempts at symbolism.