Perhaps the nicest thing that can be said about Dog Park, Kids In The Hall cast member Bruce McCulloch's underwhelming directorial debut, is that it's at least bad in a pleasant sort of way: Unlike, say, Detroit Rock City or Dick, it never crams its awfulness down your throat. Instead, the film is defined by what it lacks—namely, laughs, interesting and or/believable characters, and anything whatsoever to hold the audience's interest over the course of 90 minutes. A romantic comedy so light that it practically apologizes for its existence, Dog Park stars Luke Wilson as yet another sad-sack loser, this time an unlucky-in-love writer who must go through several bad relationships before beginning one with the film's Ms. Right, a children's-television host played by Natasha Henstridge. Romantic comedies live and die on the strength of their characters and the chemistry of their leads, and Dog Park is sadly lacking on both counts. None of the characters are particularly funny or interesting: Wilson is bland and poorly developed, while Henstridge is sketchily conceived and vaguely unlikable. At one point, her cynical best friend (Amie Carey) states that Henstridge is the funniest person she knows, which is a bit odd since her character is about as warm and ingratiating as a wet blanket and as funny as a book of autopsy reports. It would be nice to report that Dog Park has something, anything, going for it, but it's just a leaden, laughless, strangely solemn waste of time and energy.