Product Details

• Actors: Jeff Goldblum
• Directors: Lawrence Guterman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: May 15, 2007
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (282 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P0J088
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,097 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Cats & Dogs (Widescreen Version)" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Comedic action-adventure that mixes live action with cutting-edge CGI and animatronic effects. "Cats & Dogs" 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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a classic comedy, but good for a few laughs April 4, 2009

By Billy Hollis VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

The premise of the movie is clever. Dogs and cats can talk, think, build machines, and are in general as clever or more clever than we humans, but they just keep it all hidden. And they are in perpetual conflict against each other.

The plot is that a human (Jeff Goldblum) is on the verge of discovering a cure for dog allergies, and the cats want to reverse it an make all humans allergic to dogs. It's rather silly, and just furnishes a backdrop against which to show doghouses with sophisticated electronics, ninja cats, and other aspects of the cat vs. dog conflict.

Tobey McGuire (Spiderman) voices the protagonist dog, a puppy accidentally inserted into the conflict. Alex Baldwin, Joe Pantoliano, and Susan Sarandon do some of the other dogs. One of the great voices of our age, Charleton Heston is the leader of the dogs, but his part is brief. Sean Hayes gives a nice, over-the-top, supervillianesque performance as the cat antagonist, and Jon Lovitz does a good turn as his assistant. In general the animal voices are the highlight of the movie, along with the continually funny joke of the dogs possessing technology and intelligence about which we humans have no clue.

Elizabeth Perkins and Jeff Goldblum lead the cast of humans. Perkins is passable, but this is not one of Goldblum's better efforts. It's really the animal's show. I found the parts with the humans to be pretty boring.

The movie contains some good moments with the animals, though, such as the the Russian Blue cat operative breaking into the human's house. It balances out as something worth a watch for a Saturday afternoon popcorn movie, but probably not something you're going to drag out and watch every year or three.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Interresting and funny May 24, 2009

By Lucky Luc

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This is an interesting movie. I'm an animal lovers and its fun to see the CGI making them humanely talking and in a "James Bond" type of setting. I did enjoy the story and the quality of the montage. Also the "making of" is a most see, how simple smart animal can do the trick and how the actor voice give them a personality. I'm more of a cat person I think they are smarter than dogs. In this production, the cats are kind-of the evil one, poor kitty. All animals are lovable and believable, it's a well done movie.

This is not a must have or a killer movie but to have fun, laughs and be entertained while eating popcorn, well I believe you will be satisfy of a well spend 10$. Kids and older-kids, animal lovers, will like it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Family fun with good effects January 5, 2002

By Mr. B. G. Fowler

Format:VHS Tape

This family movie will offer great fun for all, or at least all dog lovers. Here dogs are the undisputed good guys, whilst cats are all evil. Cats are underway to ensure that scientist Jeff Goldblum will never finish his serum to make all humans allergy-free to dogs. They plan to reverse the effects to make everyone allergic to dogs.

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about 'Cats And Dogs' is that it's obviously biased, especially for a movie that scoffs at people for actually having a favourite animal! That said, the special effects are fantastic and it's jam-packed with great characters and one-liners. For instance, a dog labelling himself 'Toto Annihilation' will have you rolling in your seats. Plus there's the fact that cat lovers can console themselves in the fact that the felines are undoubtedly the best characters, from the dictatorship of Mr Tinkles to the Samurai fighting cats and the Russian spy cat. The dogs, for their part, are mostly pretty wet, except for a marvellous Susan Sarandon as a stray mutt. Although it's surprising that many of the celebrity voices are highly unrecognisable. Indeed, you hardly notice Alec Baldwin or Toby Maguire.

Unfortunately though, for all it's style and obvious wit, it still has such a lame plot that you'll be gagging from some real action. It's the characters that engage rather than the big action sets. The idea is good too, but it's still more flashy effects than story or character progression. Thankfully though, the ladles of sickly sentiment are not as bad as in many kids' movies.