YMMV / Cats & Dogs

• Awesome Music: The James Bond-esque title music of the sequel. Which is a remix of P!nk's album song, "Get the Party Started," sung by Shirley Bassey. Found here.
• Evil Is Cool: While the movie gets flak from cat lovers for making all felines villainous, it does redeem itself a bit with this trope, with Mr Tinkles and his henchmen often claiming more amusing personalities and gags than the heroic dogs.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • NOT GOOD!!! ^Explanation The Dobermans' flat reaction to seeing Caroline Brody pick Lou who was hidden in a nearby haystack beforehand.
  • "I want you to stay here" "Why?" "Because I hate you." Even people who hate the film agree that this line is Black Comedy gold.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Mr. Tinkles attempting to murder Lou's owners.
  • Kitty Galore mocking Catherine's desperate pleas and her inability to swim while lowering her and Diggs to drown in a container full of water.
• Narm: Alexander Pollock's performance as Scottie Brody reeks of some of the most wooden, unexpressive acting ever seen in a child actor, leading to The Nostalgia Critic making a Running Gag in his review of the movie of him wondering if he's even actually human.
• Rooting for the Empire: Cat lovers, or even people who like cats and dogs equally, are probably not going to buy into the "dogs are good, cats are evil" thing.
• So Bad, It's Good: With plenty of outdated special effects and poor writing to go around you might end up finding it laughable in how it's essentially trying to be a live action cartoon.
• So Okay, It's Average: Most people's opinions of the first film. The second and third... not so much.
• Special Effects Failure: The CGI work and animatronics for the first movie have not aged well at all. The CG lip sync of the animals is rather disturbing and it's glaringly obviously which shots use live animals and which use puppets or CGI. The ninja cats and Russian Blue, the only animals visualized either mostly or fully in CGI, stand out the most with how dated and cartoonish they are.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Many people agree that the concept of the movie is very unique and creative, but is undermined by unfunny gags and cheesy, dated effects. It probably would have been less jarring if the entire thing was animated instead of being a mix of CGI and live action.
  • The human B-plot of Paws Unite! appears to lead up to a performance of "Run", a song that Zoe was working on during the film's events, only for it to be interrupted by the epilogue. Thus, Roger's narration drowns out her singing, which becomes near-inaudible. During the epilogue, Zoe's family receives a recording contract due to said song while footage of them jamming is displayed, thus resulting in a plothole.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Seamus has been at times mistaken as a female bird.

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