Plenty of heart and hijinks mixed with litter box humor.

Unlike the Babe films, the plot here is so thin that there's almost nothing for the effects and jokes to cling to.

Falls victim to a common pitfall of special-effects movies: The technology takes precedent over the characters and story.

While this fusion [of different effects] seamlessly creates the illusion cats and dogs are indeed talking to each other, the story has all the charm of a flatulent Fido who's just devoured a crate full of Gravy Train.