i have be excite about _cats and dogs_ since i catch the hilarious trailer month ago . have now waste a glorious saturday afternoon ( during calgary stampede week no less and when i could have be do something really enjoyable ) and i feel immensely cheat . the trailer reveal that the film have some good line and that it entail an intriguing and pregnant premise . what the trailer doesn not show be the almost non stop dreck that litter and ruin the rest of the film . i be talk about an unnecessary and distract and obligatory and unconvincing sentimentality to the whole thing . three cliched aspect be especially annoy represent1 . the dad ( jeff goldblum and absolutely sleepwalk ) be a scientist who and despite the fact that he work at home and be apparently neglectful of his so . we know this because of his inattention to junior soccer tryout . this tension lend to some appalling resolution ( sorry for the slight spoiler but if you can not see this come you lack a pulse ) that have nothing at all to do with cat or dog and be not remotely humourous . 2. lou the beagle have not only to help save the world from the cat he also have to earn the love of junior and who ( in an unspeakably stupid and unbelievable scene ) reject the dog initially a if any little kid would reject a darling beagle puppy and but the plot require this kind of stuptidity . why can not the movie focus on the battle at hand instead of attempt this sentimentality and complete with soar violin . ick . 3. for no fathomable reason whatsoever and a stray voice by poor susan sarandon show up a the love interest for the grizzled head dog and lou mentor . ah . so the general have a romantic past what be the point of that . i would add that there be some annoyance typical of a lot of family film that most viewer apparently accept uncritically but that set my teeth on edge represent1 . the quirky scientist and with no apparent mean of financial support and his realtor wife live in a house that be easily worth a million dollar and on a massive lot with impeccably maintain garden . doesn not this depiction of social class bother anybody but me . 2. susan sarandon stray be clearly a pure breed a saluki i think . oh the idle rich how dare they abandon a $ 3000 dog . do hollywood writer who clearly themselves come overwhelmingly from the privileged class have any idea how real people live and especially how their purported character might live . i have to add a a canadian ( one who recently immigrate here from the u ) that i can never live down and or understand and the need for film like this one and shot in victoria and bc have to be set in america one of the first scene show a usps letter box and one russian cat malign these american security system . nothing in the movie hinge on american ness in any way and so why not just set the damn thing in bc . so producer of these film believe that american would refuse to see a movie set where it be actually film .