Solondz loves revisiting his creations (he did it in Life During Wartime and, glancingly, Palindromes). Alas, he never improves on the originals.

Wiener-Dog is a mordantly funny tour of the human condition seen from the low-slung position of a sausage dog.

It is a movie with a hard core of disillusionment.

With this collection of characters for an anthology set-up, Wiener-Dog is just about the Todd Solondz-iest film you could expect from writer-director Todd Solondz, but there is an interesting formal setup to set it apart from the more standard formula...