Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of the Kitty Bald Ears

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Movie
German title Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of the Kitty Bald Ears
Original title Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Country of production USA , Australia
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 79 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Brad Peyton
script Ron J. Friedman
Steve Bencich
John Requa
Glenn Ficarra
production Polly Cohen
Andrew Lazar
Greg Michael
Brent O'Connor
music Christopher Lennertz
Pink
camera Steven B. Poster
cut Julie Rogers
occupation

* = Speaking role

chronology

←  Predecessor
Cats & Dogs - Like cats and dogs

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr is an action comedy with parodic elements from 2010 , which was filmed in 3D and is the sequel to Cats & Dogs . Alternative title is Cats & Dogs 2 .

action

prolog

In Northern Germany, a man who works on a ward that has secret codes found a puppy of the Cocker Spaniel breed . When the man takes the puppy to the ward, his bloodhound Rex suddenly starts barking wildly because something is wrong with the puppy. The man brings Rex out. The dog sees through the window that the puppy is the disguised former cat agent Kitty Kahlohr (in the original: Kitty Galore). Kitty Kahlohr photographs the secret files and disappears. However, Rex is an agent and immediately informs the headquarters.

Main storyline

The police dog Diggs is locked in the kennel because he accidentally caused the explosion himself during his last assignment, in which a madman threatened to blow up a used car dealership. His human "partner" Shane wants to take him in, but he is not granted it.

In the meantime, the dog agent center becomes aware of Diggs. Lou from the first part, who is no longer active in the field, decides to put Diggs on the case of Kitty Kahlohr. The dog agent Butch frees Diggs from the kennel and leads him to the dog center. He and Butch are supposed to track down an informant, the pigeon Seamus. The two of them find Seamus on a lighthouse, but there is also Catherine, a cat agent who is looking for Seamus for the organization MEOWS (which stands for mouse hunter unit for top world security ). The cat agent flies away with a kind of rocket backpack , but Butch has one too. Finally, Diggs and Butch reach Seamus, breaking a wing. It is decided by Lou that Butch, Diggs and Seamus must work together with the cat Catherine. Diggs dislikes this because he hates cats.

Catherine tells that Kitty Kahlohr's real name is Ivana Clawyu . After falling into hair removal cream at a cosmetics factory, she became a Sphynx cat . She no longer recognized her human family at that time and put her on the street. Her colleagues at MEOWS also made fun of her and so she bitterly disappeared into the underground and took the name Kitty Kahlohr .

To find out where Kitty Kahlohr is now, Diggs and his companions are looking for Kitty Kahlohr's henchman in an old woman's house; it's Calico , who was Mr. Tinkle's henchman in the first part. They find out they need Mr. Tinkles to get more information about Kitty Kahlohr. Mr. Tinkles is in custody in Alcatraz . Tinkles refuses to talk about the exact whereabouts of Kitty Kahlohr, but he says she keeps all of the secrets in a cat's eye.

A prison informant notifies Kitty Kahlohr that the cat and dog agents are working together. Then she puts two Scottish professional killer cats on the group: Angus and Duncan MacDougall. During the fight against the killers, Diggs refuses Butch's orders and is therefore excluded from the mission by Butch. Catherine takes Diggs home after the incident, where Diggs tells her that he spent most of his life in the kennel as he was never able to obey orders; as a puppy he had learned not to trust anyone but himself. Catherine Diggs then shows MEOWS headquarters . When the two of them look at a picture of Kitty Kahlohr and enlarge it so that only the eye can be seen in a close-up, they see a reflection of an advertisement with the words "CHUCK THE MAGICIAN" . This is what Mr. Tinkles meant by his message when he said the information was hidden in a cat's eye. It turns out that Kitty Kahlohr's whereabouts are a fairground and Chuck the wizard is her master.

When Diggs and Catherine arrive at the fairground, they fall into a trap owned by Kitty Kahlohr, in which they are tied up over a pool of water. Catherine uses Diggs' collar to open her bonds, but before she can use it to free Diggs, it falls into the pool of water. Catherine can overcome her fear of water, fetches the collar and now frees Diggs too. Butch and Seamus are now at the fair too , as they have already been informed by Lou and Tab Lazenby, the boss of MEOWS .

The four find out that Kitty wants to use a device that she has installed on a children's carousel to transmit a signal using a satellite that makes all the dogs in the world go crazy and they are therefore locked in the kennel. Seamus presses a red button on the device to shut it down, but that button was the trigger. Kitty now sends her assistant walker (in the original Paws (paws)) to stop Diggs and the others from breaking the signal in time for the countdown. During a fight between Diggs and Biter, Biter's fur is stripped and it is revealed that he is a robot. Diggs can overpower Walkers, however, by getting him to bite the wires of the machines. Kitty is now being betrayed by her own pet mouse. The mouse presses a button to catapult Kitty into the air. Kitty is wrapped in cotton candy and ends up in Chuck's magic hat. Those in attendance think the blast and everything else were part of Chuck's performance, and so Chuck becomes the star of the fairground.

epilogue

Diggs, Butch, Catherine and Seamus are still working together. The dog headquarters firewall is hacked. Suddenly, Mr. Tinkles appears on the control center screen. He escaped from prison and lives in California, where he is planning his next crime . Diggs and the others are assigned to stop Tinkles.

Voice actor

Surname Original voice German voice
Diggs James Marsden Sascha Rotermund
Kitty bald ear Bette Midler Joseline Gassen
Catherine Christina Applegate Claudia Lössl
Butch Nick Nolte Pure beauty
Seamus Katt Williams Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Lou Neil Patrick Harris Frank Schaff
Mr. Tinkles Sean Hayes Axel Malzacher
Calcio Wallace Shawn Michael Nowka
Lazenby tab Roger Moore Lothar Blumhagen
Angus MacDougall Michael Beattie Gerald Schaale
Duncan McDougall Jeff Bennett Dietmar miracle
Biters Phil LaMarr

Parodies of James Bond and other films

  • The name Kitty Kahlohr is a reference to Pussy Galore from the James Bond film Goldfinger .
  • The MacDougall brothers' watercraft is very reminiscent of the watercraft from The Spy Who Loved Me .
  • The sequence that follows the opening is stylistically based on the famous and lavishly designed James Bond intros. The theme music is even interpreted by Shirley Bassey , who contributed the title song three times ( Goldfinger , Diamond Fever , Moonraker ) to the original James Bond films .
  • The name Tab Lazenby is a reference to James Bond actor George Lazenby . In the original he is dubbed by Roger Moore , who also played the role of James Bond . The German dubbing voice Lothar Blumenhagen also dubbed Roger Moore several times, including in the television series Die 2 and in Simon Templar , but not in the James Bond films.
  • Kitty Kahlohr has a white mouse that she often strokes. This alludes to the James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld , who always strokes a white Persian cat.
  • Beißer , who turns out to be a robot in the end , is a reference to Terminator
  • The name Beißer (or Paws in the original) also refers to Beißer (in the original Jaws ) from the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker , whose trademark is a metal bit.
  • Mr. Tinkles is tied up just like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs and speaks like him too, so he also has the same mask.

Reviews

The film was largely received positively by critics, especially the CGI effects were praised.

“[...] This results in a lot of crazy action adventures with the use of modern high-tech gadgets and good old animal lists. In addition to real four-legged friends, which are made to speak with CGI effects, animatronic puppets are used. For example, in an amusing episode based on "The Silence of the Lambs". In the dialogues, a bag full of four-legged clichés are messed up and the smallest viewers will certainly be amused by this entertaining spy fun with united velvet paws and dog paws. "

- kino.de

“The film humorously plays with the contrast between the harmless appearance of pets and their considerable abilities as action heroes. The many jumps, trips, flights and falls correspond to the dramaturgy of a 3D film. But even if it is always exciting and a cat is even considered so dangerous that it is tied up with a leather gag like Hannibal Lekter, nothing really bad happens to either animal or human, so that the children's fun with talking animals is not spoiled by brutalities should. "

- film-zeit.de

““ Cats & Dogs - The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr ”is a sequel that many people don't even know that the film is a sequel. The film manages the rare trick of being better than the original and the 3D effect gives “Cats & Dogs - The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr” an additional level of entertainment. Anyone who wants to spend a fun afternoon at the cinema with their children and doesn't want to see an animated film can do nothing wrong with “Cats & Dogs - The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr”.

- sneakfilm.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 644 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Kahlohr . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ German synchronous files
  4. ↑ Criticism on kino.de
  5. ↑ Criticism on film-zeit.de ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  6. ↑ criticism sneakfilm.de