Cats & Dogs

Plenty of heart and hijinks mixed with litter box humor.

Unlike the Babe films, the plot here is so thin that there's almost nothing for the effects and jokes to cling to.

Falls victim to a common pitfall of special-effects movies: The technology takes precedent over the characters and story.

While this fusion [of different effects] seamlessly creates the illusion cats and dogs are indeed talking to each other, the story has all the charm of a flatulent Fido who's just devoured a crate full of Gravy Train.

No real drama here, only little spurts of humor, and the decision to blend animatronics with live-action animals can get annoying.

Cats & Dogs is meant to be entertaining and for the most part, is. Ignore the humans, embrace the animals and watch the fur, and fun, fly! And fear not - no animals were harmed in the making of this movie.

...juvenile caricature the whole way, so adults had better beware.