Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

Plot synopsis:
In Germany, a bloodhound named Rex discovers a Cocker Spaniel puppy stealing secret codes before revealing itself as Kitty Galore, a hairless Sphynx cat. Rex reports this incident to D.O.G. HQ. At a car dealership in San Francisco, the mascot Crazy Carlito plans to destroy the dealership building. The police arrive, and officer Shane Larson and his police dog Diggs arrive to stop Carlito. Diggs takes the remote detonator from Carlito but bites it in the process, blowing up the building. Butch and Lou, now a fully grown Beagle and the head of D.O.G. HQ, watch Diggs blowing up the car dealership. Lou wants to recruit Diggs as an agent, and Butch reluctantly agrees.
Diggs gets locked up in the police kennels to prevent him from causing any more incidents. When Shane leaves, Butch comes in through the floor, recruits him, and takes him to D.O.G. HQ. After tracking down a pigeon named Seamus with valuable information, Diggs and Butch meet a M.E.O.W.S. (Mousers Enforcing Our World's Safety) agent named Catherine who was after Seamus for the same reason the dogs were. Catherine reveals to Diggs that Kitty Galore was a former M.E.O.W.S. agent named Ivana Clawyu who, while on a mission at a cosmetics factory, was chased by a guard dog and fell into a vat of hair removal gel, causing her to lose all her fur. Unrecognized and humiliated by her fellow agents and humans, Kitty left M.E.O.W.S. and vowed to exact revenge on humans and dogs.
Lou forms an alliance with Tab Lazenby, the head of M.E.O.W.S, to take down Kitty Galore. At a cat lady's home, the team discover that Calico, the middle-cat who was Mr. Tinkles' former aid, has been sending parts of stolen technology to Kitty using pigeons that work for her. Diggs tries to attack Calico, who then attempts to drown the team in cat litter; due to some quick thinking they eventually manage to escape. Afterwards, they interrogate Calico as to Kitty's whereabouts, but he claims that he doesn't know where she is because the pigeon couriers are flying the stolen technology to a secret location.
The group travels to Alcatraz where Mr. Tinkles is currently a mental patient. They try to get him to tell him Kitty Galore's whereabouts, but he only gives them one clue: A cat's eye reveals everything. When Kitty Galore learns about the cats and dogs working together, she hires two mercenaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall to attempt to assassinate Seamus on the boat returning from the prison. Diggs subdues Angus and accidentally throws him overboard. Fed up with Diggs ruining the mission, Butch votes him off the team and leaves with Seamus to find clues.
Catherine takes Diggs to her home. She learns that the reason why Diggs never follows orders is because his past experiences have caused him to believe that he cannot trust anyone except himself, which led to him spending the majority of his life in kennels. She tells Diggs if he continues to think in this way, no one will able to help him. Diggs realizes how stupid he has been. Catherine takes Diggs to M.E.O.W.S. HQ, where they learn that Kitty is hiding at a fairground with her new master, an amateur magician named Chuck the Magnificent.
Not long after arriving, Diggs and Catherine are captured by Kitty Galore and her henchcat, Paws. Kitty reveals to Diggs and Catherine that she plots to transmit "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 left alone and unwanted in kennels. Diggs and Catherine escape and meet up with Butch and Seamus. Kitty uses the roof of the fairground's flying swings ride for a satellite dish. Diggs, Butch, Catherine and Seamus arrive. Seamus presses a red button, thinking it is a shutdown button, but it instead loads the "Call of the Wild" signal. Dogs around the world start acting insane in their homes. Paws battles them, revealing he is a robot in the process. Diggs tricks Paws into biting the wires, destroying the satellite. Kitty's pet mouse, Scrumptious, fed up with Kitty's abuse towards him, fires her away. Kitty gets covered in cotton candy and lands in the magician's hat with the humans thinking it was a stunt.
After the mission, Diggs goes to live with Shane before returning to H.Q. to learn that Mr. Tinkles has escaped from prison with Calico.

Tags: revenge

Review:
After seeing such a low score, I didn't expect it to be that great, but I found myself enjoying the film after a very short time.The movie was actually pretty funny, and I don't normally find kids movies very funny, but this was actually good as a sequel.
I've seen much worse kids movies get higher ratings than this.You need to approach it with an open mind and remember that it is a kids movie and you will enjoy this, especially if you love animals or have a younger friend who loves animals to watch it with.I have been waiting for years for a sequel to the original, and while this one wasn't as great as I remember the original being, it was still an enjoyable movie with many laughs, and familiar characters.The special effects were definitely not the best I've seen, but there isn't anything wrong with that, the movie wasn't trying to be mind blowing, but the effects got the job done.
Its a good sequel full of laughs and fun for the family to enjoy.If you can approach this movie with an open mind, and remember its not an adult's film, but fun for the family, you will find plenty of enjoyment and laughs for everyone in the family..
I loved the part where it was announced to congratulate a dog on his son, son, daughter, daughter, son, daughter.....just one of those clever parts that you have to pay attention to catch.I loved the opening credits and Shirley Bassey theme, straight from James Bond and very clever.Sometimes we need a change from the movies we watch.
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!.
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.
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.
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).
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..
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.
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..
Well, the official website for "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" has a paw for a mouse pointer, the movie uses most every lazy pun possible about pets, and a reviewer has already claimed the movie marks the end of civilization as we know it.
With such prospects, a film about talking cats and dogs coming together to fight off Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler) doesn't eye well for adults.
Any mathematicians in the theater can better spend their time tracking the noticeable upward curve of boredom and silliness the longer the movie runs (the pet gags during the end credits don't count).Aren't kids movies like this supposed to be funny despite their absurdity?
It took 9 years to bring this sequel of "Cats & Dogs" to the theaters, which gave it plenty of time to spread a wide umbrella for big name voices.
Nick Nolte's deep scratchy voice took to the end credits to figure out, but it stands out in his role as a scrappy mentor dog, Butch, the muscle of a secret agency run by semi-intelligent talking dogs.We learn that dogs have an underground spy organization where no human has ever entered, appropriately outfitted with hi-tech gadgets in the Bond tradition and specially tailored for dog clichés.
The first pet puns are quirky and tone setting, but after the third or fourth - and when combined with lame cultural references (including Hannibal Lecter and who knows what else) - it becomes torture.The main character is a German shepherd police dog named Diggs (James Marsden), who joins a band of unlikely heroes to try to protect humans against Kitty Galore.
Cats & Dogs [2]: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (1:22, PG-13, 3-D) — other: talking animals; 3rd string; sequelI created the "talking animals" subcategory after years of frustration trying to figure out whether to slot things like this under SF, fantasy, or elsewhere.
They know that kids, and their parents, will be willing to pay and suffer through almost anything if it has a cute wise-cracking dog or cat character.This movie sets a new standard for the worst of a genre, however.
I like how this spoofs James Bond movies right down to the opening credits and the name Kitty Galore.
When I saw a trailer for this movie I wanted to go and see it despite its bad reviews.In all the reviews I read people said that the movie sucked.What I don't understand is why does everyone always judge sequel's so badly?Not all sequels are bad,and that's a true fact.Have you ever watched Toy Story 3?That is a sequel and that movie was even better than the first.Now about Cats and Dogs 2.I liked this one better than the first and I really don't care what others may think about that.Yes its a kids movie so of course its not going to please adults.But that doesn't mean little kids are the only ones who will like it.I'm sure some teenagers like it as well.I know that's true because I'm 15 and I enjoy this movie.
All this make for a bad and especially annoying film but you can't blame the kids--after all, most children are not movie reviewers and don't mind all this silliness!
It's a shame, as the first film, "Cats & Dogs" was pretty good and had some appeal for all ages--whereas "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" would only appeal to someone over age 10 if they have very, very, very low standards...or a traumatic brain injury.My verdict: dumb and tedious but also fun for young kids.
(I like cats, too hahaha :D).The movie brings back original characters; Lou the beagle (Neil Patrick Harris), Butch the Anatolian Shepherd Dog (Nick Nolte), Shep the Old English Sheepdog (Michael Clark Duncan), Peek the Chinese Crested (can't remember his voice actor), and even a cameo of Mr.Tinkles the Persian cat!
Diggs (James Mardsen) the German Shepherd/Alsatian, is a great character, and does bring colour and humour to the film, as well as a level of humanity; what I mean is, it shows the dog having problems, which the audience can relate to, much like Butch in the original.
The whole cats and dogs working together is a good message for kids, showing you should overlook your differences etc in the face of adversity, to help one other out and build a bond.The humour, no matter how over done, is funny, especially the cats on 'nip!
The human actors are just a distraction to the spy like efforts of the cats and dogs, and there are no characters as funny as some of the cats in the original.
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty galore, better than the original.
It was entertaining, the special effects were quite good, I liked the characterizations of the animals and I believe that the actors voices were well paired with their character animals.I think the movie could have gone a little more in depth with character development and also some of the 'exactly how did this cat do this'?
information, but all in all I think this sequel at least equal to if not better than the original movie.There are fewer humans in this one, and I don't think it was laugh out loud funny, but it was good, and my little girl really liked it too.
"Cats & Dogs": the idea of the original movie (which I haven't still seen, but I will) didn't appeal me 10 years ago.
It's not a very smart movie and the dialog is quite simple (OK, the dove character and some of the supporting cast is plain boring), but it worked great as a family movie: the kids (specially the 4 years one, who loved "Toy Story 3") liked the plot and followed it quite all the time without need of much explaining, and the parents liked the sometimes blatant, sometimes more silently reference to movies and sagas, from Bond's (it's really Shirley Bassey at the opening credits!) to "Die Hard", "Lethal Weapon", "Men in Black" or even Burton's "Batman".
The middle part was a bit slow (both in the CGI an plot advancement departments) and the main character development was scarce, by any means; much more interesting was his kitty companion and the misadventures of both the villain and his mouse.All in all, recommended as a light family film or as a cop & spy spoof (if you want the spoof not to be as offensive to the original material as the Scary/Date/Disaster/Superhero Movie sagas..
I saw the prequel to this, Cats & Dogs (2001), a few years ago and, although I didn't agree with the sentiments expressed in the film, I kind of liked the way it was done.
The voices of the main characters were provided by; James Marsden as Diggs, Nick Nolte as Butch, Christina Applegate as Catherine, Katt Williams as Seamus, Bette Midler as Kitty Galore and Roger Moore as Tab Lazenby.
For a children's film, 'Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore' is pretty much the usual generic flick.
The voice casting (that includes stars like James Marsden, Christina Applegate, Bette Midler, Nick Nolte, Sean Hayes and more) is good too.
I think this movie is good enough to be watched by the whole family.Its funny as hell, i like the introduction of twinkles, using the psychology Hannibal Lecter uses to pick peoples buttons, and also the introduction of the pigeon.
Too bad they tried to use some clichés and jokes from other spy movies giving them this "pet way of talking", as in other animated movies, they add a funny character -remember Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon?- which wasn't totally necessary, but makes the movie bearable.I don't know if it's some bad acting by some of the actors, and a story that was too predictable -I know it's a children movie, but surprise is always good, and if we look back into the first movie, nobody would've expected Mr. Tinkles to take over his owner's company, and then leaving his sidekick behind, talk about twist of a bolt-.
Butch, yes one of the returning heroes from Cats And Dogs 1 but voiced this time by Nick Nolte (guess Alec Baldwin wanted nothing to do with the sequel) gets advised by returning hero #2 Lou (also voiced by another actor) that he wants Diggs to join up with them to fight the new feline threat to canine and human kind Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler).
Cats and dogs this time around have to join forces to remove the world of Kitty Galore the feline threat.
From the absurd amount of cat and dog puns that are more forced than the drama on American Idol, to the just not funny jokes coming either from the main dog (who I am certain is probably missing his brain) to the pigeon that supposedly works for the big "bad" of this movie (and no, I do not really care why a bird works for a cat, but it is really stupid, that is for sure.) I wish I could say maybe the CGI is good, but no, it looks like the same half-hearted attempts they use in Asylum films, and worst of all it couldn't be less convincing that the animals are talking unless you just made them ALL CGI, instead of using real cats and dogs.
Sure, I know people try and use the stupid excuse, "But its for kids, can't you let it just be that?" No, I can't, because while there are still being great, incredible kid films being made and released (just think Lion King or How to Train Your Dragon) that not only are really, really enjoyable for children, but just so for adults, then I cannot stand while crap like this is being made.
The movie is based on the cats and dogs joining together and trying to beat Kitty Galore.
This live action/CGI feature is a sequel to 2001's Cats And Dogs, a film which I am pretty sure I saw but which I can remember nothing about.
Waste of Good talent Like Katt Williams who is really funny in the parody movies I watch is the mind blowing annoying pigeon who never shuts up.
Nothing can beat this film's awfulness.Cats And Dogs 2 is not a movie, It is a cliché.
Actually, you had it right the first time."I think the reason some folks didn't like this movie is because it delivers the clever dialog and the great action at such a fast pace that some of the good stuff goes whipping past the audience before they know it.
The end credit sequence shows cats and dogs playing and righting, like something out of "Animals Do The Funniest Things"Whilst it will keep you smiling all the away through, there are only a few places that are really funny.All in all, its good - but I'm not sure its better than the first one..
If you are a dog person, and have an open mind about kids movies, you'll probably like this sequel.
I would probably recommend CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE!!!.
This movie is nowhere nere as good as the first cats and dogs but it is funny and entertaining.