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{{Infobox film {{Infobox film
| name = Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | name = Cats & Dogs:<br /> The Revenge of Kitty Galore
| image = Cats_and_dogs_the_revenge_of_kitty_galore_poster.jpg | image = Cats_and_dogs_the_revenge_of_kitty_galore_poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical release poster | caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = ] | director = ]
| producer = Polly Cohen<br />]<br />Greg Michael<br />Brent O'Connor | producer = ]<br />Polly Johnsen<br />Greg Michael<br />Brent O'Connor
| writer = ]<br />]<br />]<br />Glenn Ficarra | screenplay = ]
| story = ]
| starring = ]<br />]<br>]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]<br />]
| based on = {{Based on|Characters Created|]<br />Glenn Ficarra}}
| music = ]<br>''']'''<br>]
| starring = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| music = ]<br>''']'''<br>]
| cinematography = Steven Poster | cinematography = Steven Poster
| editing = ] | editing = Julie Rogers
| studio = ] | studio = ] <br/> Mad Chance <br/> Polymorphic Pictures
| distributor = ] | distributor = ]
| released = {{Film date|2010|7|30}} | released = {{Film date|2010|7|30}}
| runtime = 85 minutes | runtime = 82 minutes
| country = {{FilmUS}}<br />{{FilmAustralia}} | country = United States<br />Australia
| language = English | language = English
| budget = $85 million<ref name="BOM">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=catsanddogs2.htm |title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |publisher=] |accessdate=2010-08-03}}</ref> | budget = $85,000,000<ref name="BOM">{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=catsanddogs2.htm |title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) |publisher=] |accessdate=2010-08-03}}</ref>
| gross = $111,670,804 | gross =$112,483,764
| preceded_by = '']''
}} }}
'''''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore''''', also known simply as ''Cats & Dogs 2'', is a 2010 American-Australian ] directed by ]. The film is a sequel to 2001's '']''. It stars ], ], and the voices of ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. ], ] and ] do not reprise their roles as Lou, Butch and Calico from the first film; instead, ], ] and ] voice Lou, Butch and Calico, respectively. '''''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore''''' is a 2010 ] ] film, directed by ]. The film stars ] and ]. The film also stars the voices of ], ], ], ], ], and ]. The film is a sequel to the 2001 film '']'' and was released on July 30, 2010. It received extremely negative reviews from film critics, but was a modest commercial success, grossing over $110 million worldwide.

The film was released on July 30, 2010, and was also released in ] 3D. Preceding the film is a new 3D short with ] titled "Coyote Falls".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/movies/20looney.html |title=For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque |work=The New York Times |first=Brooks |last=Barnes |date=May 19, 2010 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref>


==Plot== ==Plot==
At a base in Northern Germany, a worker delivering secret codes finds a ] puppy outside his office. He brings the puppy inside, showing her to his ], 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. At a satellite base in Northern Germany, a worker named Freidrich (]), who is delivering secret codes finds a ] puppy outside his office but the dog turns out to be Kitty Galore (voiced by ]), an evil female hairless ], in disguise. Freidrich's bloodhound Rex turns out to be a dog agent and reports to HQ.


In San Francisco, Diggs (voiced by ]), a ] ] is suspended from the force after blowing up a car dealership. Butch, an ], (voiced by ]) and Lou (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris), the head of D.O.G. HQ, recruit him to D.O.G. HQ. to stop Kitty Galore from broadcasting "The Call of the Wild", a sound that will drive dogs all around the world completely insane. After tracking down a ] named Seamus with valuable information, Diggs and Butch meet a M.E.O.W.S. (Mousers Enforcing Our World's Safety) agent named Catherine (voiced by ]) 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, Kitty returned to her human home only to be kicked out. Afterward, she vows revenge on humans and dogs. After bringing Catherine to HQ, Lou and Tab Lazenby (voiced by ]), the head of M.E.O.W.S, form an alliance to take down Kitty Galore much to Diggs's dismay. Diggs was jealous of Catherine for having better gadgets while he got nothing. At a cat lady's home, they discover the middle cat who has been sending parts of stolen technology to kitty using other pigeons that work for her, but claims that he does not know where she is hiding. Diggs ruined the plan when he disobey orders almost causing them to be killed kitty litter.
In San Francisco, Diggs (voiced by James Marsden), a ] ] and his master, Shane (Chris O'Donnell) are called to a hostage situation. Diggs deliberately ignores Shane's commands. He attacks the suspect, causing him to release a device that Diggs grabs which causes a building to blow up. Butch (voiced by Nick Nolte) and Lou (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris) are watching footage of the incident. Lou, no longer a puppy and now head official of the Dog HQ, wants Diggs to be an agent with Butch as his mentor to help bring down Kitty Galore.


After talking to Mr Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) who is locked up in ], two mercenaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall (voiced by Michael Beattie and Jeff Bennett) respectively attempt to assassinate Seamus on the boat returning from the prison. Diggs subdues Angus and accidentally throws him overboard. After getting fed up with Diggs ruining the mission, Butch votes him off the team and leaves with Seamus. Catherine takes Diggs to her home, where she learns that the reason why Diggs never follows orders is because he never trust anyone but himself, which lead to him getting into the kennels a lot. She tells Diggs if he continues doing these bad habits, no one will able to help him. With that said, Diggs realizes how selfish and stupid he has been and 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. Butch and Seamus are alerted of Diggs and Catherine's capture. 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 cellphones to cause them to act hostile towards their humans. They will then be left alone and unwanted in kennels. Diggs and Catherine however 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 lands in the magician's hat with the humans thinking it was a stunt, while Diggs and the others escape.
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. Butch recruits Diggs and takes him to HQ. Lou gives them a mission to track down a pigeon named Seamus (voiced by Katt Williams) who is an informat and apparently works for Kitty Galore.


After the mission, Diggs goes to live with Shane before coming to H.Q. to learn that Mr Tinkles has escaped from prison with the middlecat (aka Calico) and hacked their systems, so Diggs, Butch, Seamus, and Catherine go to stop him.
After tracking down Seamus, Diggs and Butch meet a M.E.O.W.S. agent named Catherine (voiced by Christina Applegate) who was after Seamus 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 she became rogue after a mission against the dogs during which she was knocked into a vat of hair removal gel causing her to lose all her fur and give her the appearance of a ] cat, thus resulting in being ridiculed by her cat comrades and later be kicked out of her human home. Since then, Kitty has been plotting her revenge on not only dogs, but cats and humans as well.


==Cast==
After bringing Catherine to HQ, Lou contacts Tab Lazenby (voiced by Roger Moore) of MEOWS and they form an alliance to take down Kitty Galore. Seamus reveals where a pigeon was going while working for Kitty. At a cat lady's home, they discover the middlecat (who is actually Calico) that has been sending the parts to Kitty using other pigeons that work for her but claims that he doesn't know where she is hiding.
* ] as Shane Larson, a police officer who wants to adopt Diggs; however, the police will not allow it.
* ] as Chuck, Kitty's new owner and an aspiring but scatterbrained amateur magician.
* ] as Freidrich (bit-part), a German worker who first finds Kitty Galore (disguised as a puppy) in a dumpster outside.
* ] as Crazy Carlito (bit-part), the mad bomber
* ] 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===
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 hidden prison on Alcatraz Island. Although he refuses to tell them Kitty's exact location, he gives a hint to the group that all secrets are revealed in a cat's eye 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 mercinaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall (voiced by Michael Beattie and Jeff Bennett) to attack them and capture (and possibly assassinate) Seamus on the boat returning from the prison.
* ] as Diggs, an arrogant, dimwitted, rebellious and egotistical ] who becomes an agent of D.O.G.
* ] as Butch (Agent 3293 at D.O.G.), a grumpy, gruff-voiced ] who acts as Diggs's mentor. Nolte replaced ] in this movie.
After getting fed up with Diggs not listening to his commands, Butch leaves with Seamus to the pigeon's home to find clues. Catherine takes Diggs to her home. Catherine learns that Diggs has been in and out of kennels his whole life. She takes him to the Cat HQ. Diggs, Catherine and Tabs learn that Kitty is hiding at a fairground with her new master, a magician, from a still picture from her video - by looking in the eyes like Tinkles said.
* ] as Catherine (Agent 47 at M.E.O.W.S.), a female ] cat, who becomes Diggs' partner.
* ] as Seamus, a dim-witted, clumsy carrier ].
* ] as Kitty Galore, formerly a M.E.O.W.S. agent named Ivana Clawyu.
* ] as Lou, who is now an adult ] and the head official of D.O.G. HQ. Harris replaced ] in this movie.
* ] as Mr. Tinkles, a ] who is detained on ].
* ] as Calico, an ] who works for Mr. Tinkles. Wallace Shawn replaced ] in this movie.
* ] as Tab Lazenby, the head of M.E.O.W.S. HQ
* ] as Peek, a ]. He is the tech specialist and head of Covert Ops at D.O.G. HQ.
* ] as Sam, an ].
* ] as Scrumptious, Kitty's pet albino ].
* ] as Paws,a robotic ] with metal teeth who works for Kitty.
* ] as Gruff K-9
* ] as Cat Gunner
* Michael Beattie as Angus MacDougall
* ] as Duncan MacDougall
* Bonnie Cahoon as Dog PA
* ] as Security ]
* ] as Fat Cat Inmate
* ] as Cool Cat / Dog Killa / Slim
* ] as Snobby K-9
* ] as Rocky
* ] as French ] (uncredited)


==Reception==
Not long after arriving at the fairground, Diggs and Catherine are captured by Kitty Galore and Paw. Kitty reveals that she plans to send a signal that only dogs can hear through televisions and radios to cause them to act hostile towards their humans. After escaping Kitty's death trap, Diggs and Catherine meet up with Butch and Seamus who were alerted by Tab and Lou.


===Box office===
Kitty uses a chair ride as a satellite dish to transmit the signal. Seamus accidentally presses the button to start the program thinking it was the shutdown button. Dogs start becoming hostile in their homes. Kitty orders Paws to attack them and the final battle begins. Paws' fur is ripped off during the fight and he turns out to be a Terminator-style robot. Diggs tricks Paws into biting one of the wires causing the dish and Paws to explode. The humans watching think it is a stunt by the magician. When her pet mouse Scrumptious turns on her, Kitty ends up getting ejected from the satellite, tied up in cotton candy and lands right in the magician's hat.
''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' 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 ], retreating 44% to $6,902,116 to 7th place and lifting its total to $26,428,266 in 2 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 movie is considered a huge ], as it grossed less than half of the first ''Cats & Dogs'', but it did manage to do better business than fellow summer talking animal competition '']''. 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 ] theatre release, the film was preceded by the new 3D animated short film titled '']'' with ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/movies/20looney.html |title=For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque |work=The New York Times |first=Brooks |last=Barnes |date=May 19, 2010 |accessdate=July 16, 2010}}</ref>
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). It is shown that Diggs, Butch, Catherine, and Seamus are still working together, hinting at another sequel titled "Cats and Dogs 3".


===Critical response===
There is a post-credits scene with Mr. Tinkles and Calico.
''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' received very unfavorable critical reception. Review aggregate ] reports that 14% of 94 critics have given the film positive reviews, with an average score of 3.6/10.<ref name="rotten tomatoes">{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_and_dogs_the_revenge_of_kitty_galore/ | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Movie Reviews, Pictures | work=Rotten Tomatoes | publisher=''], Inc.'' | accessdate=2012-03-13}}</ref> The critical consensus is: "Dull and unfunny, this inexplicable sequel offers little more than the spectacle of digitally rendered talking animals with celebrity voices."<ref name="rotten tomatoes" /> Another review aggregate, ], calculated a score of 30/100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/cats-dogs-the-revenge-of-kitty-galore | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore reviews at Metacritic.com | publisher=''] Inc.'' | work=Metacritic | accessdate=2012-03-13}}</ref>


] of '']'' 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."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943220.html?categoryId=31&cs=1#ixzz0vClehM6x | author=Leydon, Joe | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Read Variety's Analysis of the Movie | date=2010-07-25 | accessdate=2010-07-30 | publisher='']'' | work=Variety}}</ref> Critics cited the plot as recycled. Scott Tobias of '']'' 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/cats-dogs-the-revenge-of-kitty-galore,43626/ | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore Film Review | author=Tobias, Scott | work=The A.V. Club | publisher=''] Inc.'' | accessdate=2010-07-30}}</ref>
==Cast==
===Voice cast===
* ] as Diggs. A rebellious German Shepherd who joins the dog agency to stop Kitty Galore and learns about to follow orders. He is the main protagonist of the film.
* ] as Butch. A somewhat grumpy Anatolian Shepherd Dog and the deuteragonist of the film. He becomes Digg's partner. He becomes irritated with Digg's rebellious personality, but manages to overcome it. He is from the first film, voiced by Alec Baldwin.
* ] as Catherine. A feisty but soft-hearted cat who works with a cat agency called M.E.O.W.S. she revalves to her friends who are Butch ,Diggs and Seamus plus She reluctantly helps the dogs after cats and dogs are forced to team up to stop Kitty Galore. She learns that Digg's doesn't follow orders, because the only person he depends on is himself so no one can fail him and she begins a friendship with him. She is the tritagonist of the film. She has nieces' at her house, which are kittens'.
* ] as Seamus. A dim-witted but serious pigeon and the secondary tritagonist of the film. He is a target of Kitty Galore, because he holds plans of her world conquest plan that are blueprints (which he mistanken for wallpaper) that were given to him by his cousin Nicky. He helps Diggs, Butch, and Catherine stop Kitty Galore.
* ] as Kitty Galore. A maniacal Sphynx Cat and the main antagonist of the film. She plans to put all dogs in the pound when they loose control of their sensitive hearing of a satelite that she will send a beam down to Earth from and have cats as her slaves as revenge on humans' for throwing out of her home after she fell into a pad of hair removal cream as she once worked for M.E.O.W.S and had hair.
* ] as Lou. The leader of the dog agency D.O.G. He was from the first film as a puppy and now has became leader of Dog HQ (though not known, because he decided to become a family dog at the end of the first film, but possibly changed his mind.) He gives the assignment of retrieving Seamus, and tells his agents that cats and dogs will have to team up to stop Kitty Galore. He is shown to have a wife and kids (though his kids are seen and his wife is mentioned.) He was voiced by Tobey Maguire in the first film.
* ] as Mr. Tinkles,the villain from the first film. He is shown locked up in a secret prison on an island (though not known as his fate was living with Rosy the maid and her sisters, but possibly went on another rampage, resulting him in the prison.) Although he refuses to help the heroes fight Kitty Galore, he helps them by giving them a riddle "A cat's eye reveals everything". Which he is later said was right by Catherine when she sees Kitty Galore's location on a picture of her on a computer at M.E.O.W.S. HQ. He is later seen at the end when he appears on a screen at P.A.W.S., revealing that he escaped prison (which he said he was planning to do, when the heroes were visiting him.) and that he's in The Caribbean, planning his revenge along with Calico. Unlike the first film, he is a minor character.
* ] as Peek-A Chinese Crested dog who was from the first film, still working as computer intellegance. Unlike the first film, he is a minor character.
* ] as Tab Lazenby. A british Tuxedo Cat who his the head of M.E.O.W.S.
* ] as Sam. A blind Old English Sheepdog who was from the first film. Unlike the first film, he is a minor character.
* ] as Calico. Originally Mr. Tinkles's main henchman in the first film. He is shown giving devices to pigeons' when he first appears on the film. He says to the heroes he in unknown of Kitty Galore's loation, but tells them were Mr. Tinkles, describing him as a "crazy old cat". He is seen again with Mr. Tinkles at the end in The Caribbean. He was voiced by Jon Lovitz in the first film.
* ] as Gruff K-9
* ] as Scrumptious, Patches, Catherine's Niece
* ] as Paws, Cat Spy Analyst
* ] as Cat Gunner, Cat Spy Analyst
* ] and ] as Angus and Duncan MacDougall
* ] as Dog PA
* ] as Security Bulldog, Catherine's Niece
* ] as Fat Cat Inmate
* ] as Cool Cat, Dog Killa, Cat Spy Analyst, Slim
* ] as Snobby K-9
* ] as French Poodle (uncredited)
* ] as Rocky

===Live-action cast===
* ] as Shane
* ] as Chuck
* ] as Friedrich
* ] as Crazy Carlito
* ] as Little Girl

==Reception==
''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' was met with negative reviews. Review aggregate ] reports that 13% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 79 reviews, with an average score of 3.6/10.<ref name="rotten tomatoes">{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_and_dogs_the_revenge_of_kitty_galore/ | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Movie Reviews, Pictures | work=Rotten Tomatoes | publisher=''], Inc.'' | accessdate=2010-07-30}}</ref> The critical consensus is: "Dull and unfunny, this inexplicable sequel offers little more than the spectacle of digitally rendered talking animals with celebrity voices." <ref name="rotten tomatoes" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cats_and_dogs_the_revenge_of_kitty_galore/?critic=creamcrop | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Cream of the Crop) | work=Rotten Tomatoes | publisher=''Flixster'' | accessdate=2010-07-30}}</ref> Another review aggregate, ], which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 30 based on 19 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/catsanddogs2 | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore reviews at Metacritic.com | publisher=''] Inc.'' | work=Metacritic | accessdate=2010-07-30}}</ref>


The film was nominated for a ] for "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D", but it lost to '']''.
] of '']'' 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." <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117943220.html?categoryId=31&cs=1#ixzz0vClehM6x | author=Leydon, Joe | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Read Variety's Analysis of the Movie | date=2010-07-25 | accessdate=2010-07-30 | publisher='']'' | work=Variety}}</ref> Critics cited the plot as recycled. Scott Tobias of '']'' 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 s***."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/cats-dogs-the-revenge-of-kitty-galore,43626/ | title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore Film Review | author=Tobias, Scott | work=The A.V. Club | publisher=''] Inc.'' | accessdate=2010-07-30}}</ref>


==References to James Bond==
==Box office==
* Kitty Galore is a parody of the ] ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Vera, Raphael|url=http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2010/catsanddogs2010.html |title=Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore|publisher=ChristianAnswers.net|date= |accessdate=2011-05-13}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2012|not at http://web.archive.org/web/20110723041913/http://christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/2010/catsanddogs2010.html either}}
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* Paws is a parody of ], complete with metal teeth.
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 '']''. However, the film successfully earned an additional $67,763,768 overseas for a worldwide total of $111,349,521, which makes it a box office success.
* The opening sequence is a parody of the ], which has become a series staple. The sequence includes references to the sequences for '']'' and '']'', as well as the earlier Bond films.
* Equally, the film's theme song is longtime Bond dame ]'s cover of "]".
* Tab Lazenby (a reference to ]) is voiced by ]. Moore played the role of James Bond seven times.
* Kitty has an albino mouse named Scrumptious, a reference to the white cat held by ].


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==Video game== ==Video game==
A video game, developed by 505 Games, was released on July 20th, 2010 for the Nintendo DS. It is titled ''Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' after the movie with the same name. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Dogs-Revenge-Galore-Nintendo-DS/dp/B003JRZJM0 |title=Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore |accessdate=September 26, 2010}}</ref> A video game was developed by ] and it was released on July 20, 2010 for the ]. It is called ''Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' after the movie with the same name.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JRZJM0 |title=Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore |accessdate=September 26, 2010}}</ref>


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==DVD and Blu-Ray release==
The Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray, and DVD copies of ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' was released on November 16th, 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Dogs-Revenge-Galore-Blu-ray/dp/B0034G4OTA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1287371553&sr=8-5 |title=Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore |accessdate=September 26, 2010}}</ref> The ], ], and ] copies of ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' was released on November 16, 2010.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0034G4OTA |title=Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore |accessdate=September 26, 2010}}</ref>


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2010 American film
Cats & Dogs:
The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrad Peyton
Screenplay byRon J. Friedman
Story bySteve Bencich
Produced byAndrew Lazar
Polly Johnsen
Greg Michael
Brent O'Connor
StarringJames Marsden
Nick Nolte
Christina Applegate
Katt Williams
Bette Midler
Roger Moore
Neil Patrick Harris
Chris O'Donnell
Jack McBrayer
Sean Hayes
Michael Clarke Duncan
Wallace Shawn
CinematographySteven Poster
Edited byJulie Rogers
Music byChristopher Lennertz
Theme song:
Shirley Bassey
Production
companies		Village Roadshow Pictures
Mad Chance
Polymorphic Pictures
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • July 30, 2010 (2010-07-30)
Running time82 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Australia
LanguageEnglish
Budget$85,000,000
Box office$112,483,764

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 the 2001 film Cats & Dogs and was released on July 30, 2010. It received extremely negative reviews from film critics, but was a modest commercial success, grossing over $110 million worldwide.

Plot

At a satellite base in Northern Germany, a worker named Freidrich (Fred Armisen), who is delivering secret codes finds a Cocker Spaniel puppy outside his office but the dog turns out to be Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler), an evil female hairless Sphinx cat, in disguise. Freidrich's bloodhound 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 is suspended from the force after blowing up a car dealership. Butch, an Anatolian Shepherd, (voiced by Nick Nolte) and Lou (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris), the head of D.O.G. HQ, recruit him to D.O.G. HQ. to stop Kitty Galore from broadcasting "The Call of the Wild", a sound that will drive dogs all around the world completely insane. 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 (voiced by Christina Applegate) 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, Kitty returned to her human home only to be kicked out. Afterward, she vows revenge on humans and dogs. After bringing Catherine to HQ, Lou and Tab Lazenby (voiced by Roger Moore), the head of M.E.O.W.S, form an alliance to take down Kitty Galore much to Diggs's dismay. Diggs was jealous of Catherine for having better gadgets while he got nothing. At a cat lady's home, they discover the middle cat who has been sending parts of stolen technology to kitty using other pigeons that work for her, but claims that he does not know where she is hiding. Diggs ruined the plan when he disobey orders almost causing them to be killed kitty litter.

After talking to Mr Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) who is locked up in Alcatraz, two mercenaries named Angus and Duncan MacDougall (voiced by Michael Beattie and Jeff Bennett) respectively attempt to assassinate Seamus on the boat returning from the prison. Diggs subdues Angus and accidentally throws him overboard. After getting fed up with Diggs ruining the mission, Butch votes him off the team and leaves with Seamus. Catherine takes Diggs to her home, where she learns that the reason why Diggs never follows orders is because he never trust anyone but himself, which lead to him getting into the kennels a lot. She tells Diggs if he continues doing these bad habits, no one will able to help him. With that said, Diggs realizes how selfish and stupid he has been and 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 (Jack McBrayer). Not long after arriving, Diggs and Catherine are captured by Kitty Galore and her henchcat, Paws. Butch and Seamus are alerted of Diggs and Catherine's capture. 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 cellphones to cause them to act hostile towards their humans. They will then be left alone and unwanted in kennels. Diggs and Catherine however 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 lands in the magician's hat with the humans thinking it was a stunt, while Diggs and the others escape.

After the mission, Diggs goes to live with Shane before coming to H.Q. to learn that Mr Tinkles has escaped from prison with the middlecat (aka Calico) and hacked their systems, so Diggs, Butch, Seamus, and Catherine go to stop him.

Cast

  • Chris O'Donnell as Shane Larson, a police officer who wants to adopt Diggs; however, the police will not allow it.
  • Jack McBrayer as Chuck, Kitty's new owner and an aspiring but scatterbrained amateur magician.
  • Fred Armisen as Freidrich (bit-part), a German worker who first finds Kitty Galore (disguised as a puppy) in a dumpster outside.
  • Paul Rodriguez as Crazy Carlito (bit-part), the mad bomber
  • Kiernan Shipka 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

Reception

Box office

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 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 movie, retreating 44% to $6,902,116 to 7th place and lifting its total to $26,428,266 in 2 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 movie is considered a huge box office bomb, as it grossed less than half of the first Cats & Dogs, 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 Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.

Critical response

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore received very unfavorable critical reception. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 14% of 94 critics have given the film positive 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." Another review aggregate, Metacritic, calculated a score of 30/100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable 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."

The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D", but it lost to The Last Airbender.

References to James Bond

Soundtrack

Untitled
Track listing
No.TitleArtistLength
1."Get the Party Started"Dame Shirley Bassey3:59
2."Why Can't We Be Friends"Sean Kingston feat. Jasmine V4:19
3."Bad to the Bone"George Thorogood4:50
4."Eye of the Tiger"Spectacular! Cast3:32
5."Born to Be Wild"Alana Dee3:01
6."Friend"Ziggy Marley2:53
7."Magic Carpet Ride"KSM2:57
8."Atomic Dog"The DeeKompressors (cover by George Clinton2:08
9."Get Together"The Youngbloods4:37
10."Concerto for Claws & Orchestra"Christopher Lennertz2:40

Video game

A video game was developed by 505 Games and it was released on July 20, 2010 for the Nintendo DS. It is called Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore after the movie with the same name.

Home media

The DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray copies of Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore was released on November 16, 2010.

References

  1. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
  2. Barnes, Brooks (May 19, 2010). "For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque". The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
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  4. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore reviews at Metacritic.com". Metacritic. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved 2012-03-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Leydon, Joe (2010-07-25). "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Read Variety's Analysis of the Movie". Variety. Reed Business Information. Retrieved 2010-07-30. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. Tobias, Scott. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore Film Review". The A.V. Club. The Onion Inc. Retrieved 2010-07-30. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. Vera, Raphael. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore". ChristianAnswers.net. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  8. "Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore". Retrieved September 26, 2010.
  9. "Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore [Blu-Ray]". Retrieved September 26, 2010.

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