Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)

What was my excuse to go to see Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore to the cinema? I am always interested in seeing well done special effects...even if it is in deplorable movies, such as G-Force or Transformers.In the case of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, the special effects are competent, and they are complemented with the wonderful practical creations of Romaire Studios.Oh, and by the way, I also have a special affection for dogs.However, nothing of that helped me to enjoy this atrocious and deeply tedious film.

The original Cats & Dogs was not a gem of modern cinema, but it made me laugh with its ingenious parody of the spy cinema, not to mention I could also recognize the attitudes from cats and dogs I have met during my life in the characters (of course I am not talking about the gadgets and the action scenes, but about the brief moments where the authentic nature from those animals was perceived).Now, as it usually happens, the obligatory sequel looses the slight charm from the original movie and increases the level of coarse humor, and the result is another family movie where the story is replaced by noise and visual excesses.

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is composed by tired routines of a stupid humor which do not provoke even one smile, and the apparatus action sequences are very boring as well as irrelevant, and they only work as a distraction on the slow way to the ending.It is a mistake to expect too much from a film like this, but I always have the slight hope of finding filmmakers who do not take the family cinema as an excuse for reducing the intelligence from the screenplays to the minimum, or ignoring the most basic precepts of cinematographic narrative.Bad luck; I will keep searching.

As I said on the beginning of the commentary, the good special effects are not enough to recommend Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, because the movie is authentically horrible and hateful.I think that the animals from this film should have also been behind the cameras; I am sure they would have made a much better job.

Fmovies: This belated sequel to the 2001 box-office hit Cats & Dogs is better than I expected. That's not to say it's great, it's not, but there have been far inferior kiddie films I've sat through this year with my four year old (not naming any names... Alvin and Shrek). There's free-flowing action that will entertain the younglings and the animals themselves are cute and/or funny enough to please all audience members, though the plot has more than its fair share of eye-rolling moments and the CGI is poorer than it should be considering the movie's $85m budget.

The gags are hit or miss, however the few that stick are quite amusing. A riff on Silence of the Lambs is hilarious and provides the sole laugh-out-loud scene whilst the Head of M.E.O.W (the feline secret service agency) Tab Lazenby – cheekily voiced by Roger Moore – offers plenty of 007 parodied humour. Elsewhere the talented voice cast do their best to inject energy into the frequently lack-lustre and cheesy script. Marsden is likable as lead mutt Diggs, Nolte is gruff as ever as Alec Baldwin's replacement for the hardened Butch, Applegate brings the sass as Catherine and Midler is clearly having a blast as the malevolent Kitty. Chris O'Donnell fares a lot worse as live-action character Shane, Diggs' loving ex-cop partner, his unabashed mugging an absolute low in his career.

Decent enough viewing with the nippers on a wet weekend.

2.5 out of 5 (1 - Rubbish, 2 - Ordinary, 3 - Good, 4 - Excellent, 5 - Classic)

Once more, we chose to ignore the generally negative user reviews and redboxed Cats and Dogs; The Revenge of Kitty Galore. In a word (or should I say a minimum of 10 lines of words), we loved it. From the opening credits with the great Shirley Bassey doing a James Bond theme version of Pink's Let's Get the Party Started, I knew it was going to be clever and well written, and it didn't disappoint. The cast is very good with the appropriately utilized voices of the two main characters; the distinctive gravelly voice of Nick Nolte and in instantly recognizable voice of and Bette Midler as Kitty Galore herself (although slightly over the top), but obviously having a ball playing the villain. I could have done without the token stereotypical and very obnoxious black character, apparently required in all animated movies; in this case "Kat" (no pun intended) Williams. At least it wasn't Wanda Sykes. All in all, my advice would be to ignore the mostly negative reviews and rent Dogs and Cats: The Revenge of Kitty Galore; it is a very cute and thoroughly entertaining movie suitable for all ages.

Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore fmovies. Mary wanted to see it-- her rule is, if it's got a cat in it, she wants to see it. Quick summary: the trailer shows all the good scenes. The first movie had been mildly cute, although forgettable. The highlight of sequel should have been "more really cute dogs and cats." But they decided to put an average (full grown) German Shepherd in the lead (instead of the cute puppy from the first movie), and focused too much on the pigeon (who, admittedly, did get most of the good lines). The supporting cat was good, but had too little screen time. Most of the plot was quotes from other movies, with cats and dogs playing the parts (in particular, the opening title scene was a very well done version of the old James Bond movie title sequences). Except for where it was a direct parody of other movies, the plot was mostly perfunctory, and the denouement was a long and mostly incomprehensible action scene. The 3- D was both irrelevant, and also badly done. See it in 2D. If you see it, do stick through the credits for the final scene.

I repeat: This is a CHILDREN'S MOVIE!!

There's a lot of up and down votes on something that really wasn't meant for critically snarky 30-somethings. Get a grip!

The First Movie was interesting because the concept of our pets being part of shadow spy organizations that stayed out of human sight was an eye-opener. Following up on the initial break-out is always an up-hill slog.

This one was Okay. Crazed Cat Villain attempts to take over the world by making all dogs go crazy so humans will put them all into kennels. Both Canine and Feline Organizations get together to prevent disaster. what follows is EASY and ENTERTAINING to a Child. . .

Repeat: 'Entertaining to a Child', not someone's Little Genius who reads the New York Times for Bedtime Stories!

The references and gags put in for the accompanying adults are there to LIGHTLY ENTERTAIN us by eliciting Pun-Groans or soft snickers. They ARE NOT trying to give you a Comedy Central Sidetrack. The Adult is NOT the Target Audience here. If they did that, IT WOULD NOT BE A KID MOVIE ANYMORE!

Personally, I groaned at the Batman/Joker redux of Kitty Galore. Then I smiled at the Dangerous Kitty doing the Silence of the Lambs sendup.

And the rest of the time, I just sat back and enjoyed a rambunctious, Tom & Jerry style action romp simply because I wanted to be entertained by something lighthearted.

And the Pigeon was a Hoot!

Simply put: A good clean Movie for Little Kids that won't put the adult to sleep. Or even if you don't have Kids, and you want something light and silly to watch that doesn't require thought, this is an easy choice. Enough said.

Took my sons aged 4 & 6 to this & they loved it. It may not be the most entertaining movie ever for adults, but heck, it passed a morning of the school holidays, & that's good enough for me. Being a Bond fan, I loved the opening credits & liked the fact that they were copying that genre. I confess to intermittent feelings of boredom, but have yet to sit through a kid's movie where this was not the case at some point. It is clearly very very difficult to make a film which genuinely entertains adults and children throughout - if they manage to make both laugh at some point, they are doing well in my humble opinion! I asked my kids whether they had preferred Toy Story 3 (which has a much higher rating on IMDb) or Cats & Dogs, and they said they had liked both just the same. Perhaps IMDb should only allow kids to review kids films! Adults, this film may not be Oscar material, but lets keep things in perspective.