Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)

This review contains no spoilers.
This film is also available in 3D.

This film was shown with the new CGI Wile-E Coyote short, 'Coyote Falls'. It's pretty awesome.

A few of you may remember the 2001 family film Cats & Dogs, an interesting spy movie spoof starring dogs as secret agents and cats as supervillains. It wasn't particularly memorable for the most part, but included a few rather interesting characters. Fast forward nine years and we now have a sequel, which is far better than the original.

Plot
Yeah, the plot's pretty recycled from the first one. The secret organisation of dog secret agents is in trouble because a supervillain cat is hellbent on world domination, so they hire a newcomer who messes things up, is fired, but ends up saving the day. Thankfully, there is far less emphasis on the human characters in this one, which is what we wanted to see. Also, cats and dogs now have to work together.

Characters
The new agent is a German Shepherd named Diggs, who isn't really memorable. In fact, he's kind of annoying. While his backstory is interesting, there's a little too much emphasis on it and loses all emotional attachment with the audience by the fifth time it's mentioned. There is a female cat agent who is pretty cool, and numerous characters return from the last film, matured and completely in-character. The new villain is Kitty Galore, who really shouldn't be interesting, with a cliched backstory and a character archetype we've all seen before, but is for some reason one of the best characters in the film. There's also a minor character who is a pigeon named Seamus. He's completely useless and also a little annoying, although he is fairly charming for the first few scenes he's on screen.
There are human characters as well, but we don't care about them.

Visuals and Cinematography
I was glad that, for the most part, the creators stuck with using real animals instead of CGI. CGI is used where there's a need for really dynamic, non-animalistic characters, such as the two main
villains and a few minor characters. Seamus is also CGI, mainly because it'd be really hard for a bird to be an actor. The CGI is quite impressive and I love the James Bond-style opening credits, they're really impeccable.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack is mostly licensed music, but it's not unfitting and not very annoying. In fact, it uses older music and remixes of some 90s tunes instead of the horrible tween music we have nowadays.

Overall
A lot of people called this movie a pile of shit. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Remember, it's a family movie and a spoof of the spy genre, so it's meant to be a bit silly.

7/10