Cats & Dogs

Cats & Dogs is a 2001 American-Australian spy action-comedy film. The film was directed by Lawrence Guterman with screenplay by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, and stars Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins and Alexander Pollock. It was released on July 4, 2001 by Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Zide/Perry Productions, and Rhythm and Hues Studios. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but it was a success at the box office, grossing $200,687,492 on a $60 million budget.

Plot
The film uncovers the truth about the high-tech, secret war being waged in neighborhoods everywhere that humans aren't even aware of: an eternal struggle between the two great armies of Cats and Dogs. The story follows a Cat plan to destroy a new vaccine that, if developed, would destroy all human allergies to Dogs, and the Dogs' efforts to stop the Cats from executing their plan.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Very weak and clichéd plot that is easily predictable and forgettable.
 * 2) Almost all the dogs in this movie look poorly trained and constantly distracted by whatever they see.
 * 3) * All the dogs are even portrayed as the good guys while the cats are the villains.
 * 4) Poor acting from the human actors.
 * 5) The ancient Egyptian backstory scene of the secret war between cats and dogs is literally unbelievable.
 * 6) Overuse of pointless fast forwarding effects.
 * 7) The cartoon sound effect is heard in almost every fight scene
 * 8) Unfunny jokes and gross-out humor (e.g. poop jokes and fart jokes).
 * 9) The film's concept and story would've fleshed out and done better as an animated film.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The concept of cat and dogs as spies is somewhat interesting.
 * 2) The villain, Mr. Tinkles, is completely animated throughout most of the movie, allowing more control of the character instead of a real cat.
 * 3) Somewhat decent score.
 * 4) It can easily be enjoyed by many despite being bad, especially kids.
 * 5) Okay characters.
 * 6) “Oh, putting a happy face on. What an interesting philosophy. At what point did you forget that WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD?!”

Reception
Cats & Dogs has a 54% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes based upon 117 reviews (63 positive, 54 negative) with an average rating of 5.5/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "A great concept, but the movie fails to develop the characters and some of the jokes are hit-or-miss.". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 47 out of 100 based upon 26 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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