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

The ongoing war between the canine and feline species is put on hold when they join forces to thwart a rogue cat spy with her own sinister plans for conquest.

Director:

Brad Peyton

Writers:

Ron J. Friedman, Steve Bencich,

Stars:

James Marsden, Bette Midler, Chris O'Donnell

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James Marsden	...	Diggs (voice)
Nick Nolte	...	Butch (voice)
Christina Applegate	...	Catherine (voice)
Katt Williams	...	Seamus (voice)
Bette Midler	...	Kitty Galore (voice)
Neil Patrick Harris	...	Lou (voice)
Sean Hayes	...	Mr. Tinkles (voice)
Wallace Shawn	...	Calico (voice)
Roger Moore	...	Tab Lazenby (voice)
Joe Pantoliano	...	Peek (voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Sam (voice)
Chris O'Donnell	...	Shane
Jack McBrayer	...	Chuck
Fred Armisen	...	Freidrich
Kiernan Shipka	...	Little Girl

Storyline

In the age-old battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, formerly an agent for cat spy organization MEOWS, has gone rogue and hatched a diabolical plan to not only bring her canine enemies to heel, but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to join forces for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves -- and their humans.

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Plot Keywords:

cat | dog | kitty | german shepherd | puppetry | 

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Taglines:

Sheared Genius

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Family

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for animal action and humor

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [fr]

Country:

USA Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 July 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cats & Dogs 2

Filming Locations:

Alcatraz Prison, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$85,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£1,553,005 (UK) (6 August 2010)

Gross:

$43,575,716 (USA) (15 October 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CD2 Films, Mad Chance, Polymorphic Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Two actors in the film, Chris O'Donnell (Shane) and Sean Hayes (Mr. Tinkles), were born on June 26, 1970.

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Goofs

Upon arrival to Playland, Catherine uses a mannequin to pay the entrance fee. The automated mannequin proceeds to throw coins at the entrance booth attendant, but the worker flinches before the coins are thrown at him.

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Quotes

Kitty Galore: Meow!

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Connections

References On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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Soundtracks

"I Believe I Can Fly"
Written by R. Kelly

User Reviews

Nothing innovating but still really entertaining and funny!

I went to the cinema to watch this movie because my girlfriend really appreciated the first part which I've never seen and she convinced me to come with her. She bought the DVD of the first movie and there was a special gift card in it which allowed her to have a reduction of ten dollars on a ticket for the sequel and so we went to the cinema.

I didn't expect anything from this movie and I wouldn't usually comment on such a movie because it is simply not my kind of genre, but as I see now such horrible votes and the movie entering in the infamous top one hundred bottom list, I thought I'd be better if I might write my opinion, because this movie isn't simply that bad - and I am generally kind of severe on movies! While watching this movie for one and a half hour, I've never taken a look on my watch, I've never felt bored at all and I found this movie very entertaining. There were also a lot of nice laughs, especially the naive but sympathetic pigeon was worth the watch

• and let me tell you that it is rather difficult to make me laugh.

Beside the pigeon, the little girl which always saw the animals making crazy things while her mother didn't recognize anything was an entertaining running gag, too. Another funny thing was the scene in the animal's Alcatraz which I thought was a nice idea. The collaboration, the prejudices and the growing team spirit between the secret agencies of the cats and the dogs were also some really nice elements in this movie even if they were predictable. And the movie even had something philosophical: Cats and dogs put away their prejudices to save their beloved humans together and fight a common enemy. Well, I know, this is a predictable content, too, but still very touching and even teaching for young kids who are watching this movie. And the idea of adapting the world of James Bond to the world of cats and dogs isn't silly at all, but very funny for the kids, nicely done for the adults who understand some funny allusions and certainly better than most of the boring super agent comedy movie in the key of Austin Powers and other boring stuff.

A part of that, the movie is well animated and has a perfect length. People who really like cats or especially dogs might even give a few stars more, for example for the funny and cute video clips in the end of the movie.

Of course, this movie is just a sequel, it shows nothing innovating and the story is predictable and of course there are no twists in the movie, but you can't expect that from any animation movie a part of the amazing "Wall-E". Some people here say that you should put the children into the cinema to watch this movie and head yourself for the - in my opinion - heavily overrated "Inception" - I mean, you just can't compare those movies and if you take this point as a judgement, it is certain that you may be disappointed.

So, don't listen to some of those really ordinary and exaggerated hate comments and spend some ninety minutes with your kids or younger sister or girlfriend or cat/dog fetish, switch your brain off and enjoy the nice jokes and this very entertaining movie.

5,5 to 6 stars out of 10!