Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a 2008 movie by Walt Disney Pictures directed by Raja Gosnell. The first preview of the movie was seen next to The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, and originally the movie was scheduled for a September 26, 2008 release, but the release was moved to October 3. The story is about a chihuahua who gets dognapped in Mexico and has to escape from an evil Dobermann. Destino, a 2003 short movie made by Walt Disney Pictures based on an idea started by Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí in the 1940s, was thought to be seen before Beverly Hills Chihuahua, but this didn't happen. Insteed, a sneak-peek of the Disney movie Bolt was seen.

 The story 
The movie is about a spolied chihuahua from  Beverly Hills named Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore). Her owner, "Aunt Viv" (Jamie Lee Curtis), has to go to Italy, so she leaves Chloe with her niece, Rachel Ashe Lynn (Piper Perabo). Rachel and her friends go on vacation to Mexico, and Chloe gets dognapped by  an evil Mexican dognapper who at first wants to use her in dog fights but sees her value and wishes to put her at ransom (have the owners have to pay money to get her back). In the meantime, Papi (voiced by George Lopez), a male chihuahua who is in love with her is on the lookout for her. Chloe makes friendship with a lonely German Shepherd named Delgado (voiced by Andy Garcia) who travels with her to protect her from the evil Dobermann (voiced by Edward James Olmos) who wants to kill her and steal her diamond collar to return it to the dognapper who owns him.

 Cast 
 Human cast 
 Manolo Cardona as Sam
 Maury Sterling as Rafferty
 Jamie Lee Curtis as Aunt Viv
 José María Yazpik as Vasquez
 Jesús Ochoa as Officer Ramirez
 Piper Perabo as Rachel Ashe Lynn

 Voice cast 
 George Lopez as Papi
 Carlos Juvera as Tomás
 Luis Guzman as Chucho
 Andy Garcia as Delgado
 Cheech Marin as Manuel
 Paul Rodriguez as Chico
 Drew Barrymore as Chloe
 Placido Domingo as Monte
 Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo as Rafa
 Edward James Olmos as El Diablo

 Visual effects 
 Cinesite in London, using their specially developed pipeline for creating digital muzzle replacements, animated the many talking dogs. The in-house visual effects supervisor is Matt Johnson.

 Music 
The music to Beverly Hills Chihuahua was written by composer Heitor Pereira, who recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Brothers.

 Reception 
Beverly Hills Chihuahua earned $29 million USD in its opening weekend.  It was #1 in the box office for two weeks. Despite this, the movie was rather poorly received by critics.

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Category:2008 comedy movies
Category:Disney movies
Category:American family movies
Category:Movies about dogs
Category:Movies directed by Raja Gosnell
Category:Beverly Hills, California in fiction
Category:American family comedy movies