🐾 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) Review

Trailers 🎥

Let’s start with showing you all the trailers, shall we?

Warner Bros tried to sell this as “bigger, louder, more 3D!!” Dogs in jetpacks, pigeons with attitude, Bette Midler hamming it up as a shaved evil cat. It looked less like a sequel and more like a bad DreamWorks spoof trailer.

Setup 🐾

This one says, “What if cats and dogs actually teamed up against a bigger threat?” The new villain: Kitty Galore, an ex-agent cat gone rogue, who wants to unleash The Call of the Wild — a device that would drive every dog insane permanently.

Plot Rundown 📖

German Shepherd rookie Diggs (James Marsden) teams up with grizzled Butch (Nick Nolte), a cat ally named Catherine (Christina Applegate), and a loudmouth pigeon named Seamus (Katt Williams). Together, they form a weirdly dysfunctional Avengers team to stop Kitty Galore before she turns the world into chaos.

Character Rundown 👤

Diggs (James Marsden) – Rookie dog agent, clumsy but determined.

Butch (Nick Nolte) – Still grumpy, now even raspier.

Catherine (Christina Applegate) – Cat ally who proves cats can be heroes too.

Seamus (Katt Williams) – Loud pigeon comic relief.

Kitty Galore (Bette Midler) – Bald cat villain with campy flair, leaning full Bond spoof.

Mr. Tinkles (Sean Hayes) – Returns briefly, Hannibal Lecter-style in prison, and steals the movie in five minutes.


The Vibes 🎭

Louder, dumber, tries too hard. It goes all-in on being a Bond parody, but it loses the small goofy charm the first had.

Pros ✅

Mr. Tinkles cameo = comedy gold.

Bette Midler commits to the camp.

That Alcatraz sequence is… memorable.


Cons ❌

The CGI in 2010 looks worse than the first movie.

Characters are flat, jokes are forced.

Too try-hard with the Bond references.


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Final Thoughts 💭

The sequel is bigger and noisier but not better. The jokes fall flat, the CGI is dated, and the only real entertainment comes from Tinkles and Kitty Galore’s over-the-top energy.

Rating: 6/10


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Spoiler Warning ⚠️

Time to pull back the curtain on this cat-astrophe.

Spoilers 🧨

The third act cranks the absurdity up to eleven. Kitty Galore captures the heroes, brags about her master plan, and activates The Call of the Wild. Every dog on earth is about to go feral. Meanwhile, our team of misfits escapes in classic “chaotic slapstick” fashion, causing explosions and gadget malfunctions along the way.

The highlight of the film — for sheer absurdity — is the Alcatraz Island sequence. Yes, Kitty Galore’s base of operations is on Alcatraz. She’s got henchcats and tech scattered across the prison like it’s a Bond villain lair. The heroes infiltrate, Diggs bungles his way into helping, Catherine proves her worth, and Seamus… is loud. It’s the kind of set piece that makes you wonder if the writers were just ticking off a “Bond parody checklist.”

And then… enter Mr. Tinkles. Locked away Hannibal Lecter-style in a high-security cell, wearing a straightjacket, sipping tea, and throwing shade at everyone. He mocks Kitty, gloats about his own superiority, and pretty much owns the film even though he’s in it for a hot five minutes.

The finale ends with Kitty’s plan foiled, her device destroyed, and the cats and dogs reluctantly working together. Diggs finally proves he’s not useless, Butch softens his heart (again), and Kitty Galore gets humiliated. Classic “villain loses to slapstick” ending.