Following The Revenge of Kitty Galore, this ‘live action’
comedy sees felines and canines team up to take on a megalomaniac cockatoo
Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite! comes, 10 years on, cold on the heels of its predecessor, 2010’s Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – which was itself the sequel no one much wanted to 2001’s moderately pleasurable Cats & Dogs. It seems rather odd that it has taken nearly 20 years for this trilogy to unfold. Perhaps the producers were hoping we would all forget how bad each previous edition had been before they made another instalment?
Returns have diminished considerably with Paws Unite! The first film had Jeff Goldblum and Elizabeth Perkins hamming it up rather charmingly as the humans while Tobey Maguire, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and Sean Hayes, among others, voiced the other mammals in the cast. Revenge saw contributions from Bette Midler as villainess Kitty Galore, plus Nick Nolte, Christina Applegate and dear old Wallace Shawn, yet the end result was still nominated for a Razzie for Worst Eye-Gouging Misuse of 3D.