movie knocks Inception out of the #1 spot AND passes it as one of the top 3 movies rated on IMDb. IT'S THAT GOOD! The movie is basically about a drug lord who smuggles cocaine into the United States through bags of dog food. When people start reporting illness in their pets, the magic dogs and cats try to find out what happens.Chris O'Donnell could get an Oscar nomination for this. His performance was nothing short of amazing. Like when he played Robin in that Batman movie.When the animals talk it looks really cool. I bet they used peanut butter or something to make them talk.The bottom line is this movie is incredible. Better than Inception, Dark Knight, Kazaam, or any movie in the Scary Movie franchise. Go see it.

if you are like me and you want to see it just for the cute comedy then see it. Personally I thought it was funnier then a lot of comedies for adults.

and also a happy one

teenagers in slasher movies, or great American movies like Platoon where a young girl is raped by Americans, or the great Spielberg in his Saving Private Ryan where American soldiers shoot German soldiers who are trying to surrender. No, there wasn't any 'f' bombs, nobody was in a nude scene, nobody was decapitated, nobody cheated on their spouses. You know the types of movies adults enjoy.Yes, there are times I wish to watch a racy movie or a war movie, however this was not one of those times. The wife and I desired a cute movie that anybody of any age could watch, and this movie was one of those.Real quickly, I fell asleep during the original Cats and Dogs, but this movie hooked me from the first and wouldn't let me off the hook. The original lost me in the first 10 minutes.

so to speak. Enter the dogs from part 1. From there the jokes are fast and furious, some hitting home and some missing, but overall, I had a smile on my face the whole time, and my eleven year old loved every minute. There is another new edition to the crew a pigeon picked up mid way through the movie that is down right hilarious. The voice work is well done, and in one truly inspired moment Mr. Tinkles the main villain from part 1 shows up to do a gut busting scene taken straight from Silence of the Lambs. It's at this moment you will groan or laugh in spite of yourself and truly feel the movie is worth your dollars. All in all an excellent family film that will have kids enjoying themselves and enough stuff to keeps the parents entertained. Note I saw the 3D version and truly nothing is really added from the effect, though the picture is clean and vibrant.

forget it. If you're looking for something you can show your kids, this is it.

*that* one and hate this one for not being the original . The Bond references start from the villain's name in the title, upon which Jay Leno does a routine which is likely based on personal experience. If you know which Bond flick involves a red Mercury Cougar, you'll do fine... : The numerous external movies references keep the adults awake if you care . The not so cute animals add reality. Spoiler: The cute puppy some of the one star reviewers want is a disguise for Kitty Galore - so there! : In animal treatment obsessed San Francisco, I guess they had to give some Peta bread... : Other than a flavored iMac, the product placements are kept to a minimum a Moto phone, too . The San Francisco Bay Area location selections are interesting and may have been a source of ire to the one star folks Spoiler The only one that came from pure cloth was Playland at the Beach, which has been gone for almost four decades, plus never existed in the form depicted in the movie. Spoiler The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk currently has the same model of attraction as used in the movie next to the Rock and Roll cars , except their operational one has many old photos of the Boardwalk.With the number of one and two star reviews, I would expect a piece of cow manure I would never own. Instead, just as noted in the SFGate review which the low reviewers will probably hate , I found a decent movie the family including our rescue cat can sit down and enjoy.P.S. Kudos to the staff of the Century Tanforan who were willing to switch us out of the Sorcerer's Apprentice to this movie at no cost.P.S.S. I don't see in the trivia whether some of the animals were rescue animals. I'm curious to find out.