Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore is a 2010 family
action comedy film directed by Brad Peyton
. The film stars Chris O'Donnell
and Jack McBrayer
. The film also stars the voices of James Marsden
, Nick Nolte
, Christina Applegate
, Katt Williams
, Bette Midler
, and Neil Patrick Harris
. The film is a sequel to 2001's Cats & Dogs
(despite the opening credits stating otherwise; saying the film is "based on characters" from the first film). The film was released on July 30, 2010. The film was critically panned, but was a modest commercial success, grossing over $110 million worldwide.
), delivering secret codes finds a Cocker Spaniel puppy outside his office. He brings the puppy inside, showing her to his Bloodhound
, Rex. Rex senses something is wrong with the puppy and starts to bark at her, making the worker take him outside. Both are locked out of the office. Rex looks in the window seeing the puppy taking pictures of the top secret documents and later revealing to be Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler
), an evil female hairless cat. Rex turns out to be a dog agent and reports to HQ.
In San Francisco, Diggs (voiced by James Marsden
), a German Shepherd
police dog
and his master, Shane (Chris O'Donnell
) are called to a hostage situation at Crazy Carlito's used car lot. Diggs deliberately ignores Shane's commands, attacking Crazy Carlito (Paul Rodriguez
) and causing him to release a device that Diggs grabs which causes the car lot office to blow up. Butch (voiced by Nick Nolte
) and Lou (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris) are watching a footage of the incident. Lou, no longer a field agent having been promoted to official level hence being termed "desk jockey" by Butch, wants Diggs to be an agent with Butch as his mentor (to his reluctance) to help bring down Kitty Galore.
At the police station, Diggs is suspended and sent back into the kennels. Shane wants to adopt Diggs but the police will not allow it. Shane promises Diggs that he will get him out and he also tells Diggs that that life is not about being top dog and he must learn to work with other people and listen to other people. Butch comes out of the floor of the kennel and recruits Diggs and takes him to D.O.G. HQ in a rocket. Lou shows them a video they received three hours ago. The video happens to be from Kitty Galore. In the video, she explains that she is going to broadcast a sound (she calls it the "Call of the Wild") that will drive all dogs completely insane all around the world, and without the dogs to protect the humans, she will enslave all mankind. Lou explains that Kitty has been trying to track down a stool pigeon named Seamus (voiced by Katt Williams), and that if they find Seamus, he can lead them to Kitty. Lou sends them on a mission to find Seamus and stop Kitty from broadcasting her "Call of the Wild".
After tracking down Seamus, Diggs and Butch meet a M.E.O.W.S. (Mousers Enforcing Our World's Safety) agent named Catherine (voiced by Christina Applegate
) who was after Seamus -who had broken his right wing during her pursuit of him- for the same reason the dogs were. She reveals that Kitty Galore was once an agent named Ivana Clawyu who worked for M.E.O.W.S. until about a year before the events of the film; Ivana was on a mission at a cosmetics factory during which a guard dog chased her into a vat of hair removal cream causing her to lose all her fur and give her the appearance of a Sphynx
cat. Unrecognizable and humiliated by her fellow agents, she left M.E.O.W.S. to return to her human home at Christmas, but unfortunately was kicked out. Since then, Ivana went rogue, changing her name to Kitty Galore and has been plotting her revenge, not only on dogs, but cats and humans as well (Catherine reveals that contrary to the dogs' beliefs, not all cats are evil and some care about humans just as much as dogs do).
After bringing Catherine to HQ, Lou is contacted by Tab Lazenby (voiced by Roger Moore
), the "fat cat" of M.E.O.W.S and they form an alliance to take down Kitty Galore. Seamus reveals where his cousin Nicky was going while working for Kitty. At a cat lady's home, they discover the middlecat (who is actually Calico), who activates a death trap which floods the room they are in with kitty litter (forgetting that he himself is inside). After escaping the flood, Calico tells them that he has been sending the parts to Kitty, who had stolen technology from various US establishments such as NASA, the Pentagon and even Microsoft, using other pigeons that work for her but claims that he does not know where she is hiding.
Needing help to find out where Kitty could be hiding, they go see Mr. Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) who is locked up, in a similar fashion as Hannibal Lecter
in Silence of the Lambs, at a hidden prison on Alcatraz Island (he was presumably sent there from developing insanity from his torturous time with Mr. Mason' s maid and her sisters since the events of the first film). Although he refuses to help them fight Kitty (mentioning the risk of being blackballed if he did so), he gives a hint to the group that "a cat's eye reveals everything" and that he is planning his escape. Kitty discovers through an informant at the prison that the cats and dogs are working together and sends two Scottish orange tabby cat mercenaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall (voiced by Michael Beattie and Jeff Bennett respectively) to attack them and capture (and possibly assassinate) Seamus on the boat returning from the prison. The MacDougall twins attack Butch, Catherine, Diggs and Seamus on the boat, Butch managing to send Duncan overboard. Diggs hangs Angus on a flag pole, and is about to fling the tabby away. Butch tells Diggs not to do it, but Diggs does not listen.
After getting fed up with Diggs not listening to his commands (letting a carrier pigeon lead get away, almost getting the team drowned in Calico's kitty litter death trap and letting the MacDougall twins escape), Butch votes him off the team and leaves with Seamus to the pigeon's home to find clues. Catherine then takes Diggs to her home where he meets her nieces who tickle his tummy. Catherine learns that Diggs has been in and out of kennels his whole life due to the fact he never trusted anybody (he also never trusted Shane, and never trusted his superior officers) but himself. She takes him to the M.E.O.W.S. HQ, and Diggs, Catherine and Tab learn that Kitty is hiding at a fairground with her new master, a magician named Chuck the Magnificent (Jack McBrayer
), from a still picture from her video - by looking in the eyes like Tinkles said.
Not long after arriving at the fairground, Diggs and Catherine are captured by Kitty Galore and Paws, Kitty's assistant. Meanwhile, Butch (who begins to feel he was too hard on Diggs when he dismissed him even though he made the right choice of dismissing Diggs) discovers blueprints for a giant satellite dish in Seamus' home (this was why Kitty was after Seamus, his cousin stashed the blueprints there and Seamus used them as wallpaper). Back at the fairground, Kitty reveals to Diggs and Catherine that she plans to send the "Call of the Wild" via an orbiting satellite, which only dogs can hear through televisions, radios and cell phones to cause them to act hostile towards their humans. They will then be put in the kennels where they will spend the rest of their lives neglected. After escaping Kitty's death trap, Diggs and Catherine meet up with Butch and Seamus who were alerted by Tab and Lou.
Kitty uses the roof of the flying swings ride as the satellite dish to transmit the signal. Butch, Diggs, Seamus and Catherine reach the roof of the flying swings via Butch's jetpack. They see a red button, thinking it's the shut down button. They form a dog-cat pyramid to reach the red button, but fail. Seamus -with his right wing fully healed by this time- flies up to the button and presses it, but it is revealed that it is the button to start the satellite. Diggs tells Butch that if he goes up to some wires on the satellite, he can probably pull them off and shut down the satellite. Diggs brings Catherine along, and the two get to the wires. Kitty orders Paws to attack them, whereupon Paws is revealed to be a Terminator-esque robot.
However it is already too late, the Call of the Wild fires and dogs in Europe (London) and the majority of North America (New York and Albuquerque) start becoming hostile in their homes, leaving less than a minute before the signal hits San Francisco. Diggs goes to the wires but he cannot break them. He encounters Paws, who starts biting metal objects to get to Diggs. Diggs tricks Paws into biting one of the wires causing himself, and the satellite to explode in the nick of time. The humans watching think it is a stunt by the magician, who tried to climb onto the roof to get Kitty Galore down. When her pet mouse Scrumptious turns on her as payback for all the abuse he suffered throughout the film, Kitty ends up getting ejected from the satellite dish as it explodes in a flurry of fireworks, tied up in cotton candy and lands right in the magician's hat. When Chuck says to Kitty that they are now famous, she cries in both disbelief and defeat.
After the mission, Diggs goes to live with Shane, who has been looking for Diggs since he escaped from the police kennel. Diggs is called to HQ and is shown a live video revealing that Mr. Tinkles has escaped from prison with Calico (voiced by Wallace Shawn). In the film's cliffhanger ending, it is shown that Diggs, Butch, Catherine, and Seamus are still working together and they get ready to go after Mr. Tinkles.
In a post-credits scene
, Mr. Tinkles tries to order a deworming cream and, realizing the camera is still on, he says "Cats Rule!, Yeah".
reports that 13% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 79 reviews, with an average score of 3.6/10. The critical consensus is: "Dull and unfunny, this inexplicable sequel offers little more than the spectacle of digitally rendered talking animals with celebrity voices." Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 35% based on 17 reviews. Another review aggregate, Metacritic
, calculated a score of 30 based on 19 reviews.
Joe Leydon
of Variety
wrote a positive-leaning review towards the film which reads "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." Critics cited the plot as recycled. Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club
negatively reviewed the film's plot saying "it’s still about a feline plot for world domination, and the slobbering secret agents who stand in the way. And it’s still, in the spirit of the original film, an unbelievable piece of shit."
The film was nominated for a Razzie for "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D", but lost to The Last Airbender
.
, but, it did manage to do better business than fellow summer talking animal
competition Marmaduke
. It earned an additional $69 million overseas for a worldwide total of $112.5 million, which makes it a modest box office success.
During its initial American theatre release, the film was preceded by the new 3D animated short film titled "Coyote Falls
" with Looney Tunes
' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
.
Family film
A family film is a film genre that is designed to appeal to a variety of age groups and, thus, families.In December 2005, Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial came first in a poll of the 100 Greatest Family Films. The genre today generates billions of dollars per annum.Family...
action comedy film directed by Brad Peyton
Brad Peyton
Brad Peyton is a Canadian-born film director, writer and television producer, born in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. His latest film is Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.-Career:...
. The film stars Chris O'Donnell
Chris O'Donnell
Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell is an American actor. He has played Robin in two Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell...
and Jack McBrayer
Jack McBrayer
Jack McBrayer is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his characters on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"...
. The film also stars the voices of James Marsden
James Marsden
James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
, Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor whose career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s when his commercial success made him one of the most popular celebrities of that decade.-Early life:...
, Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
, Katt Williams
Katt Williams
Micah S. Katt Williams is a U.S. comedian, rapper, and actor. He is best known for his role as Money Mike in Friday After Next...
, Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
, and Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
. The film is a sequel to 2001's Cats & Dogs
Cats & Dogs
Cats & Dogs is a 2001 American-Australian action-comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman. The screenplay by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra centers on the relationships between cats and dogs. It was shot in Victoria and Vancouver. The film was released on July 4, 2001 by Warner Bros...
(despite the opening credits stating otherwise; saying the film is "based on characters" from the first film). The film was released on July 30, 2010. The film was critically panned, but was a modest commercial success, grossing over $110 million worldwide.
Plot
At a satellite base in Northern Germany, a worker named Friedrich (Fred ArmisenFred Armisen
Fred Armisen is an American actor, comedian and musician best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and portraying off-color foreigners in various comedy films such as EuroTrip, Anchorman and Cop Out...
), delivering secret codes finds a Cocker Spaniel puppy outside his office. He brings the puppy inside, showing her to his Bloodhound
Bloodhound
The Bloodhound is a large breed of dog which, while originally bred to hunt deer and wild boar, was later bred specifically to track human beings. It is a scenthound, tracking by smell, as opposed to a sighthound, which tracks using vision. It is famed for its ability to discern human odors even...
, Rex. Rex senses something is wrong with the puppy and starts to bark at her, making the worker take him outside. Both are locked out of the office. Rex looks in the window seeing the puppy taking pictures of the top secret documents and later revealing to be Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
), an evil female hairless cat. Rex turns out to be a dog agent and reports to HQ.
In San Francisco, Diggs (voiced by James Marsden
James Marsden
James Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
), a German Shepherd
German Shepherd Dog
The German Shepherd Dog , also known as an Alsatian or just the German Shepherd, is a breed of large-sized dog that originated in Germany. The German Shepherd is a relatively new breed of dog, with its origin dating to 1899. As part of the Herding Group, the German Shepherd is a working dog...
police dog
Police dog
A police dog, often referred to as a "K-9 dog" in some areas , is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and other law-enforcement personnel in their work...
and his master, Shane (Chris O'Donnell
Chris O'Donnell
Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell is an American actor. He has played Robin in two Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell...
) are called to a hostage situation at Crazy Carlito's used car lot. Diggs deliberately ignores Shane's commands, attacking Crazy Carlito (Paul Rodriguez
Paul Rodríguez
Paul Rodriguez is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.-Personal life:Rodriguez was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México to Mexican agriculture ranchers.. His family migrated to East Los Angeles, where he enlisted in the military; he was stationed in Iceland and Duluth, Minnesota...
) and causing him to release a device that Diggs grabs which causes the car lot office to blow up. Butch (voiced by Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor whose career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s when his commercial success made him one of the most popular celebrities of that decade.-Early life:...
) and Lou (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris) are watching a footage of the incident. Lou, no longer a field agent having been promoted to official level hence being termed "desk jockey" by Butch, wants Diggs to be an agent with Butch as his mentor (to his reluctance) to help bring down Kitty Galore.
At the police station, Diggs is suspended and sent back into the kennels. Shane wants to adopt Diggs but the police will not allow it. Shane promises Diggs that he will get him out and he also tells Diggs that that life is not about being top dog and he must learn to work with other people and listen to other people. Butch comes out of the floor of the kennel and recruits Diggs and takes him to D.O.G. HQ in a rocket. Lou shows them a video they received three hours ago. The video happens to be from Kitty Galore. In the video, she explains that she is going to broadcast a sound (she calls it the "Call of the Wild") that will drive all dogs completely insane all around the world, and without the dogs to protect the humans, she will enslave all mankind. Lou explains that Kitty has been trying to track down a stool pigeon named Seamus (voiced by Katt Williams), and that if they find Seamus, he can lead them to Kitty. Lou sends them on a mission to find Seamus and stop Kitty from broadcasting her "Call of the Wild".
After tracking down Seamus, Diggs and Butch meet a M.E.O.W.S. (Mousers Enforcing Our World's Safety) agent named Catherine (voiced by Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
) who was after Seamus -who had broken his right wing during her pursuit of him- for the same reason the dogs were. She reveals that Kitty Galore was once an agent named Ivana Clawyu who worked for M.E.O.W.S. until about a year before the events of the film; Ivana was on a mission at a cosmetics factory during which a guard dog chased her into a vat of hair removal cream causing her to lose all her fur and give her the appearance of a Sphynx
Sphynx (cat)
The Sphynx is a rare breed of cat known for its lack of a coat.The contemporary breed of Sphynx started in 1966, in Roncesvalles, Toronto when a hairless kitten named Prune was born. The kitten was mated with its mother , which produced one more naked kitten...
cat. Unrecognizable and humiliated by her fellow agents, she left M.E.O.W.S. to return to her human home at Christmas, but unfortunately was kicked out. Since then, Ivana went rogue, changing her name to Kitty Galore and has been plotting her revenge, not only on dogs, but cats and humans as well (Catherine reveals that contrary to the dogs' beliefs, not all cats are evil and some care about humans just as much as dogs do).
After bringing Catherine to HQ, Lou is contacted by Tab Lazenby (voiced by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
), the "fat cat" of M.E.O.W.S and they form an alliance to take down Kitty Galore. Seamus reveals where his cousin Nicky was going while working for Kitty. At a cat lady's home, they discover the middlecat (who is actually Calico), who activates a death trap which floods the room they are in with kitty litter (forgetting that he himself is inside). After escaping the flood, Calico tells them that he has been sending the parts to Kitty, who had stolen technology from various US establishments such as NASA, the Pentagon and even Microsoft, using other pigeons that work for her but claims that he does not know where she is hiding.
Needing help to find out where Kitty could be hiding, they go see Mr. Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) who is locked up, in a similar fashion as Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Lecter M.D. is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them.Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer...
in Silence of the Lambs, at a hidden prison on Alcatraz Island (he was presumably sent there from developing insanity from his torturous time with Mr. Mason' s maid and her sisters since the events of the first film). Although he refuses to help them fight Kitty (mentioning the risk of being blackballed if he did so), he gives a hint to the group that "a cat's eye reveals everything" and that he is planning his escape. Kitty discovers through an informant at the prison that the cats and dogs are working together and sends two Scottish orange tabby cat mercenaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall (voiced by Michael Beattie and Jeff Bennett respectively) to attack them and capture (and possibly assassinate) Seamus on the boat returning from the prison. The MacDougall twins attack Butch, Catherine, Diggs and Seamus on the boat, Butch managing to send Duncan overboard. Diggs hangs Angus on a flag pole, and is about to fling the tabby away. Butch tells Diggs not to do it, but Diggs does not listen.
After getting fed up with Diggs not listening to his commands (letting a carrier pigeon lead get away, almost getting the team drowned in Calico's kitty litter death trap and letting the MacDougall twins escape), Butch votes him off the team and leaves with Seamus to the pigeon's home to find clues. Catherine then takes Diggs to her home where he meets her nieces who tickle his tummy. Catherine learns that Diggs has been in and out of kennels his whole life due to the fact he never trusted anybody (he also never trusted Shane, and never trusted his superior officers) but himself. She takes him to the M.E.O.W.S. HQ, and Diggs, Catherine and Tab learn that Kitty is hiding at a fairground with her new master, a magician named Chuck the Magnificent (Jack McBrayer
Jack McBrayer
Jack McBrayer is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his characters on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"...
), from a still picture from her video - by looking in the eyes like Tinkles said.
Not long after arriving at the fairground, Diggs and Catherine are captured by Kitty Galore and Paws, Kitty's assistant. Meanwhile, Butch (who begins to feel he was too hard on Diggs when he dismissed him even though he made the right choice of dismissing Diggs) discovers blueprints for a giant satellite dish in Seamus' home (this was why Kitty was after Seamus, his cousin stashed the blueprints there and Seamus used them as wallpaper). Back at the fairground, Kitty reveals to Diggs and Catherine that she plans to send the "Call of the Wild" via an orbiting satellite, which only dogs can hear through televisions, radios and cell phones to cause them to act hostile towards their humans. They will then be put in the kennels where they will spend the rest of their lives neglected. After escaping Kitty's death trap, Diggs and Catherine meet up with Butch and Seamus who were alerted by Tab and Lou.
Kitty uses the roof of the flying swings ride as the satellite dish to transmit the signal. Butch, Diggs, Seamus and Catherine reach the roof of the flying swings via Butch's jetpack. They see a red button, thinking it's the shut down button. They form a dog-cat pyramid to reach the red button, but fail. Seamus -with his right wing fully healed by this time- flies up to the button and presses it, but it is revealed that it is the button to start the satellite. Diggs tells Butch that if he goes up to some wires on the satellite, he can probably pull them off and shut down the satellite. Diggs brings Catherine along, and the two get to the wires. Kitty orders Paws to attack them, whereupon Paws is revealed to be a Terminator-esque robot.
However it is already too late, the Call of the Wild fires and dogs in Europe (London) and the majority of North America (New York and Albuquerque) start becoming hostile in their homes, leaving less than a minute before the signal hits San Francisco. Diggs goes to the wires but he cannot break them. He encounters Paws, who starts biting metal objects to get to Diggs. Diggs tricks Paws into biting one of the wires causing himself, and the satellite to explode in the nick of time. The humans watching think it is a stunt by the magician, who tried to climb onto the roof to get Kitty Galore down. When her pet mouse Scrumptious turns on her as payback for all the abuse he suffered throughout the film, Kitty ends up getting ejected from the satellite dish as it explodes in a flurry of fireworks, tied up in cotton candy and lands right in the magician's hat. When Chuck says to Kitty that they are now famous, she cries in both disbelief and defeat.
After the mission, Diggs goes to live with Shane, who has been looking for Diggs since he escaped from the police kennel. Diggs is called to HQ and is shown a live video revealing that Mr. Tinkles has escaped from prison with Calico (voiced by Wallace Shawn). In the film's cliffhanger ending, it is shown that Diggs, Butch, Catherine, and Seamus are still working together and they get ready to go after Mr. Tinkles.
In a post-credits scene
Post-credits scene
A post-credits scene is a short clip that appears after some or all of the closing credits of a film have run...
, Mr. Tinkles tries to order a deworming cream and, realizing the camera is still on, he says "Cats Rule!, Yeah".
Cast
- Chris O'DonnellChris O'DonnellChristopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell is an American actor. He has played Robin in two Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell...
as Shane Larson, a police officer who wants to adopt Diggs; however, the police will not allow it. - Jack McBrayerJack McBrayerJack McBrayer is an American actor and comedian. He gained national exposure for his characters on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"...
as Chuck, Kitty's new owner and an aspiring but scatterbrained amateur magician. - Fred ArmisenFred ArmisenFred Armisen is an American actor, comedian and musician best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and portraying off-color foreigners in various comedy films such as EuroTrip, Anchorman and Cop Out...
as Friedrich, a German worker who first finds Kitty Galore (disguised as a puppy) in a dumpster outside. - Paul RodriguezPaul RodríguezPaul Rodriguez is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.-Personal life:Rodriguez was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México to Mexican agriculture ranchers.. His family migrated to East Los Angeles, where he enlisted in the military; he was stationed in Iceland and Duluth, Minnesota...
as Crazy Carlito, the mad bomber - Kiernan ShipkaKiernan ShipkaKiernan Brennan "Kiki" Shipka is an American child actress noted for playing Don and Betty Draper's daughter Sally on the AMC series Mad Men.-Career:...
as Little Girl, a young girl who makes a bit-part appearance when Diggs, Butch, Catherine, and Seamus are in the park. She is scared away by Seamus talking in front of her. She reappears on the ferry and at the fairground (both instances seeing Duncan talking and Kitty pleading for help respectively).
Voice cast
- James MarsdenJames MarsdenJames Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
as Diggs, a rebellious, egotistical German ShepherdGerman Shepherd DogThe German Shepherd Dog , also known as an Alsatian or just the German Shepherd, is a breed of large-sized dog that originated in Germany. The German Shepherd is a relatively new breed of dog, with its origin dating to 1899. As part of the Herding Group, the German Shepherd is a working dog...
whose arrogance got him sent to the dog pound; which happened throughout his life. However he was approached by Butch to aid D.O.G. - Nick NolteNick NolteNicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor whose career has spanned over five decades, peaking in the 1990s when his commercial success made him one of the most popular celebrities of that decade.-Early life:...
as Butch (Agent 3293 at D.O.G), a grumpy, gruff-voiced Anatolian ShepherdAnatolian Shepherd DogThe Anatolian Shepherd Dog also known as Karabash is a breed of dog which originated in Anatolia and was further developed as a breed in America....
who acts as Diggs's mentor. - Christina ApplegateChristina ApplegateChristina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...
as Catherine (Agent 47 at M.E.O.W.S.), a female Russian BlueRussian BlueThe Russian Blue is a cat breed that has a silver-blue coat. These cats are known to be highly intelligent and playful but tend to be timid around strangers...
cat and Diggs' love interest. - Katt WilliamsKatt WilliamsMicah S. Katt Williams is a U.S. comedian, rapper, and actor. He is best known for his role as Money Mike in Friday After Next...
as Seamus, a dim-witted, clumsy pigeon who is an informant and appears to have something Kitty Galore wants. - Bette MidlerBette MidlerBette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
as Kitty Galore. Once a M.E.O.W.S. agent named Ivana Clawyu, Kitty fell into a puddle of removal hair cream, which gave her the appearance of a SphynxSphynx (cat)The Sphynx is a rare breed of cat known for its lack of a coat.The contemporary breed of Sphynx started in 1966, in Roncesvalles, Toronto when a hairless kitten named Prune was born. The kitten was mated with its mother , which produced one more naked kitten...
cat. After being ridiculed by her fellow felines and kicked out of her human home, she plots revenge on cats, dogs, and humans. - Neil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick HarrisNeil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...
as Lou, an adult BeagleBeagleThe Beagle is a breed of small to medium-sized dog. A member of the Hound Group, it is similar in appearance to the Foxhound, but smaller, with shorter legs and longer, softer ears. Beagles are scent hounds, developed primarily for tracking hare, rabbit, and other game...
and the head official of D.O.G. HQ. The young protagonist from the last movie, Lou has matured and joined D.O.G., where he eventually was promoted to head official, which became something for Butch have occasionally joke at. - Sean HayesSean Hayes (actor)Sean Patrick Hayes is an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, for which he won an Emmy Award, four SAG Awards, one American Comedy Award, and six Golden Globes nominations.He also portrayed comedian Jerry Lewis in the...
as Mr. Tinkles, a Persian who is detained on Alcatraz IslandAlcatraz IslandAlcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. Often referred to as "The Rock" or simply "Traz", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison, and a Federal...
, and, alongside the creepy prisoner in the cell next to him, is a reference to Hannibal LecterHannibal LecterHannibal Lecter M.D. is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them.Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer...
. - Wallace ShawnWallace ShawnWallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
as Calico, an Exotic Shorthair, Mr. Tinkles' henchman. - Roger MooreRoger MooreSir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...
as Tab Lazenby, the head official of M.E.O.W.S. HQ - Joe PantolianoJoe PantolianoJoseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano is an American film and television actor. He played the character of Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, Bob Keane in La Bamba, Cypher in The Matrix, Teddy in Memento, Francis Fratelli in The Goonies, Guido "the Killer Pimp" in Risky Business, and Jennifer Tilly's...
as Peek the Chinese CrestedChinese Crested DogThe Chinese crested dog is a smaller hairless breed of dog. Like most hairless dog breeds, the Chinese crested comes in two varieties, both with and without fur, which are born in the same litter: the Hairless and the Powderpuff....
, tech specialist and head of Covert Ops at D.O.G. HQ. - Michael Clarke DuncanMichael Clarke DuncanMichael Clarke Duncan is an American actor, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.- Early life :...
as Sam the Old English SheepdogOld English SheepdogThe Old English Sheepdog is a large breed of dog which was developed in England from early herding types of dog. The Old English Sheepdog has very long fur covering the face and eyes...
. Despite his reappearance, his script is limited to two lines. - Elizabeth DailyElizabeth DailyElizabeth Ann Guttman , better known by her stage names of Elizabeth Daily and E.G. Daily, is an American voice actress, actress, singer-songwriter, and musician...
as Scrumptious, Kitty's pet mouseFancy mouseFancy mice are domesticated breeds of the common or house mouse . The terms fancy and "feeder mice" are often used interchangeably by retailers, and are in fact the same variety of mouse....
who eventually turns on her / one of Catherine's nieces - Phil LaMarrPhil LaMarrPhillip "Phil" LaMarr is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. One of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv, he is also known for his small, but memorable role as Marvin in Pulp Fiction...
as Paws, a Maine CoonMaine CoonThe Maine Coon is a breed of domestic cat with a distinctive physical appearance and valuable hunting skills. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America, specifically native to the state of Maine, where it is the official State Cat....
, Kitty's robotic henchcat. / Cat Spy Analyst - J. K. SimmonsJ. K. SimmonsJonathan Kimble "J. K." Simmons is an American actor. He is best known for his roles on television as Dr. Emil Skoda in NBC's Law & Order , Assistant Police Chief Will Pope in TNT's The Closer, neo-Nazi Vernon Schillinger in the HBO prison drama Oz, on film as J...
as Gruff K-9 - Carlos AlazraquiCarlos AlazraquiCarlos Jaime Alazraqui is an American actor, comedian, impressionist and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Deputy James Garcia on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. His voice-over work includes the role of Bobbi Fabulous on Phineas and Ferb, the Taco Bell chihuahua, Denzel Q...
as Cat Gunner / Cat Spy Analyst - Michael Beattie as Angus MacDougall, one of the MacDougall Twins.
- Jeff BennettJeff BennettJeffrey Glenn "Jeff" Bennett is an American voice actor and musician, listed "among the top names in the voice-over field", best known as the voice of Johnny Bravo in the series of the same name...
as Duncan MacDougall, one of the MacDougall Twins. - Bonnie Cahoon as Dog PA
- Grey DeLisleGrey DeLisleGrey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...
as Security English BulldogBulldogBulldog is the name for a breed of dog commonly referred to as the English Bulldog. Other Bulldog breeds include the American Bulldog, Olde English Bulldogge and the French Bulldog. The Bulldog is a muscular heavy dog with a wrinkled face and a distinctive pushed-in nose...
/ one of Catherine's Niece - Roger L. JacksonRoger L. JacksonRoger Labon Jackson is an American voice actor. He is best known for voicing the killer Ghostface in the Scream films, leaving him to keep an unknown identity to withhold the mystery of Ghostface...
as Fat Cat Inmate - Bumper RobinsonBumper RobinsonBumper Robinson is an American actor and voice artist. Robinson got his nickname because he repeatedly bumped into things while running through his home as a young child.- Life and career :...
as Cool Cat / Dog Killa / Cat Spy Analyst / Slim - André SogliuzzoAndré SogliuzzoAndré Sogliuzzo is an Italian-American voice actor, comedian, and actor.-Animated roles:* American Dad! – Dill* Avatar: The Last Airbender – King Bumi, Hakoda, Haru* The Batman – Duncan* Brandy & Mr...
as Snobby K-9 - Rick D. WassermanRick D. WassermanRick D. Wasserman is an American actor and voice actor. He is also known as Rick Wasserman.-Television:* Black Panther – Radioactive Man/Igor Stancheck* The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes – Thor, Absorbing Man...
as Rocky - Karen StrassmanKaren StrassmanKaren Strassman is an American voice actress and actress who is most known for her television and film appearances as well as voice acting. She voices many characters in many video games, animated series and anime series, including Zhalia Moon in Huntik: Secrets & Seekers, Fantine in IGPX, Kallen...
as French PoodlePoodleThe Poodle is a breed of dog. The poodle breed is found officially in toy, miniature, and standard sizes, with many coat colors. Originally bred as a type of water dog, the poodle is highly intelligent and skillful in many dog sports, including agility, obedience, tracking, and even herding...
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Reception
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore has received mostly negative reviews from critics. Review aggregate Rotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
reports that 13% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 79 reviews, with an average score of 3.6/10. The critical consensus is: "Dull and unfunny, this inexplicable sequel offers little more than the spectacle of digitally rendered talking animals with celebrity voices." Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 35% based on 17 reviews. Another review aggregate, Metacritic
Metacritic
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, calculated a score of 30 based on 19 reviews.
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Joseph Patrick Michael "Joe" Leydon is an American film critic and historian. A critic and correspondent for Variety and a contributing writer for MovieMaker Magazine, he is the author of Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See and a contributing critic for Leonard Maltin's Movie...
of Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
wrote a positive-leaning review towards the film which reads "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." Critics cited the plot as recycled. Scott Tobias of The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. Its features include reviews of new films, music, television, books, games and DVDs, as well as interviews and other regular offerings examining both new and classic media and other elements of pop culture. Unlike its...
negatively reviewed the film's plot saying "it’s still about a feline plot for world domination, and the slobbering secret agents who stand in the way. And it’s still, in the spirit of the original film, an unbelievable piece of shit."
The film was nominated for a Razzie for "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D", but lost to The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender
The Last Airbender is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is a live-action film adaptation of the first season to the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender....
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Box office
The film earned $4,225,000 on opening day, and $12,279,363 on its opening weekend reaching #5 at the box office and having a $3,314 average from a very wide 3,705 theaters. In its second weekend, its drop was very similar to the first film, retreating 44% to $6,902,116 to seventh place and lifting its total to $26,428,266 in two weeks. It held better in its third weekend, dropping 39% to $4,190,426 and remaining in the Top 10. The film closed on October 21, 2010 after 84 days of release, earning $43,585,753 domestically. Produced on an $85 million budget, the film is considered a huge box office bomb, as it grossed less than half of the first Cats & DogsCats & Dogs
Cats & Dogs is a 2001 American-Australian action-comedy film directed by Lawrence Guterman. The screenplay by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra centers on the relationships between cats and dogs. It was shot in Victoria and Vancouver. The film was released on July 4, 2001 by Warner Bros...
, but, it did manage to do better business than fellow summer talking animal
competition Marmaduke
Marmaduke (film)
Marmaduke is an American live action film adaptation of Brad Anderson's comic strip Marmaduke. The film centers on a rural Kansas family and their pets – a Great Dane named Marmaduke and a Balinese cat named Carlos – as the family relocates to California.-Plot:Marmaduke is a Great Dane living in...
. It earned an additional $69 million overseas for a worldwide total of $112.5 million, which makes it a modest box office success.
During its initial American theatre release, the film was preceded by the new 3D animated short film titled "Coyote Falls
Coyote Falls
Coyote Falls is a 2010 Looney Tunes film starring characters Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. It is directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by , produced by Reel FX Creative Studios and released by Warner Bros. Animation. It is the first Wile E...
" with Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner
Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner are a duo of cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. The characters were created by animation director Chuck Jones in 1948 for Warner Bros., while the template for their adventures was the work of writer Michael Maltese...
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