Cats and Dogs Movie Review

Review by Variety

Cats and dogs working together. A sign of the apocalypse? No, a concept for a sequel. Nine years after “Cats & Dogs” fetched more than $200 million worldwide with its comic take on interspecies animosity, Warners is unleashing “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” a faster, funnier follow-up in which CGI-enhanced canines and felines effect a temporary truce to combat a common enemy. Decked out with even more impressive f/x than its predecessor — and, perhaps more important, readily available in 3D — this breakneck sequel could do nicely at the late summer box office.

Much like the 2001 original, the new pic imagines a world in which humans remain blissfully oblivious, but dogs and cats are anthropomorphic mortal combatants, armed with high-tech weaponry and space-age surveillance while locked in a secret, centuries-old battle. Canines who take very, very seriously their roles as man’s best friends maintain a global spy network to prevent felines from re-establishing their long-ago dominance over humankind.

Review by The Hollywood Reporter

Although critter movies have performed extremely well at the boxoffice, “Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” will put that trend to a tough test.

This isn’t so much that the story and characters are weak — though they very much are — but that animatronics and computer animation so anthropomorphize these critters that they bear more resemblance to cartoons than actual flesh-and-fur animals. When cats and dogs, not to mention a bird and a mouse, don’t act like animals, those story and character weaknesses really stand out.

Which is not to say young audiences won’t embrace these critters too. CGI is so accepted now in video games and movies that these “Cats and Dogs” may look goofy rather than grotesque. Let’s just hope no youngster returns home and flings the family feline across the lawn to see if she can fly like Kitty Galore.

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Review by EW

No movie — whether aimed at adults or kids or canines themselves — has the right to be as tiresome and unoriginal as this action-comedy mutt. The plot of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore concerns cat and dog spies who team up to fight a feline terrorist.

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