Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 66.27.52.166 (talk) at 02:35, 2 July 2014. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 02:35, 2 July 2014 by 66.27.52.166 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) 2010 American film

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Brad Peyton
Screenplay by	Ron J. Friedman
Story by	Steve Bencich
Produced by	Andrew Lazar Polly Johnsen Greg Michael Brent O'Connor
Starring	James 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
Cinematography	Steven Poster
Edited by	Julie Rogers
Music by	Christopher Lennertz Theme song: Shirley Bassey
Production companies	Village Roadshow Pictures Mad Chance Polymorphic Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 30, 2010 (2010-07-30)
Running time	82 minutes
Countries	United States Australia
Language	English
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

James Marsden as Diggs, an arrogant, dimwitted, rebellious and egotistical German Shepherd who becomes an agent of D.O.G.
Nick Nolte as Butch (Agent 3293 at D.O.G.), a grumpy, gruff-voiced Anatolian Shepherd who acts as Diggs's mentor. Nolte replaced Alec Baldwin in this movie.
Christina Applegate as Catherine (Agent 47 at M.E.O.W.S.), a female Russian Blue cat, who becomes Diggs' partner.
Katt Williams as Seamus, a dim-witted, clumsy carrier pigeon.
Bette Midler as Kitty Galore, formerly a M.E.O.W.S. agent named Ivana Clawyu.
Neil Patrick Harris as Lou, who is now an adult beagle and the head official of D.O.G. HQ. Harris replaced Tobey Maguire in this movie.
Sean Hayes as Mr. Tinkles, a Persian who is detained on Alcatraz Island.
Wallace Shawn as Calico, an Exotic Shorthair who works for Mr. Tinkles. Wallace Shawn replaced Jon Lovitz in this movie.
Roger Moore as Tab Lazenby, the head of M.E.O.W.S. HQ
Joe Pantoliano as Peek, a Chinese Crested. He is the tech specialist and head of Covert Ops at D.O.G. HQ.
Michael Clarke Duncan as Sam, an Old English Sheepdog.
Elizabeth Daily as Scrumptious, Kitty's pet albino mouse.
Phil LaMarr as Paws,a robotic Maine Coon with metal teeth who works for Kitty.
J.K. Simmons as Gruff K-9
Carlos Alazraqui as Cat Gunner
Michael Beattie as Angus MacDougall
Jeff Bennett as Duncan MacDougall
Bonnie Cahoon as Dog PA
Grey DeLisle as Security English Bulldog
Roger Jackson as Fat Cat Inmate
Bumper Robinson as Cool Cat / Dog Killa / Slim
André Sogliuzzo as Snobby K-9
Rick D. Wasserman as Rocky
Karen Strassman as French Poodle (uncredited)

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

Kitty Galore is a parody of the Bond girl Pussy Galore.
Paws is a parody of Jaws, complete with metal teeth.
The opening sequence is a parody of the James Bond title sequence, which has become a series staple. The sequence includes references to the sequences for GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as the earlier Bond films.
Equally, the film's theme song is longtime Bond dame Shirley Bassey's cover of "Get the Party Started".
Tab Lazenby (a reference to George Lazenby) is voiced by Roger Moore. Moore played the role of James Bond seven times.
Kitty has an albino mouse named Scrumptious, a reference to the white cat held by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Soundtrack

Untitled

Track listing
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Get the Party Started"	Dame Shirley Bassey	3:59
2.	"Why Can't We Be Friends"	Sean Kingston feat. Jasmine V	4:19
3.	"Bad to the Bone"	George Thorogood	4:50
4.	"Eye of the Tiger"	Spectacular! Cast	3:32
5.	"Born to Be Wild"	Alana Dee	3:01
6.	"Friend"	Ziggy Marley	2:53
7.	"Magic Carpet Ride"	KSM	2:57
8.	"Atomic Dog"	The DeeKompressors (cover by George Clinton	2:08
9.	"Get Together"	The Youngbloods	4:37
10.	"Concerto for Claws & Orchestra"	Christopher Lennertz	2:40

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

"Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
Barnes, Brooks (May 19, 2010). "For Looney Tunes, a Big Left Turn at Albuquerque". The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
^ "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster, Inc. Retrieved 2012-03-13. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
"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)
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)
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)
Vera, Raphael. "Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore". ChristianAnswers.net. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
"Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore". Retrieved September 26, 2010.
"Amazon.com: Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore [Blu-Ray]". Retrieved September 26, 2010.

External links

v t e Brad Peyton
Films directed	Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl (2002) Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) San Andreas (2015) Incarnate (2016) Rampage (2018) Atlas (2024)
Films written	Pirate's Passage (2015)
TV series created	What It's Like Being Alone (2006) Dr. Dimensionpants (2014–2015) Frontier (2016–2018) Daybreak (2019)

Categories: