Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite! - a tired sequel

 

I have watched this trailer and it does not appeal to me. It looks tired but I am not an ideal reviewer. It's about a cockatoo and a lizard plotting to undermine the peace between dogs and cats. The central players are a red, tabby and white cat and a sheepdog. It's been criticised for less than good CGI and that the mouths of the animals don't look convincing when they are speaking. 

To be honest, it is not the kind of film that I would watch anyway despite being an animal advocate and lover. I guess it is for children predominantly and I am well beyond that age group.

Personally, it seems to me that filmmakers rely too heavily on CGI which they have to do in this instance but I think in general they have run out of ideas. If you look back at the old films the ideas are better. The storylines are superior. Is it possible for creativity to dry up in the film business? I think it's possible for creativity to dry up in general across all the media including book fiction. It seems to me that the stories are a recycling or navel gazing. It is boring.

When you think of the huge amount of material churned out by the "creatives" the quality is bound to be diluted. It's a dilution of ideas. That's my phrase of the day :) .

There is only so many ideas that humankind can have to entertain ourselves. And when the ideas dry up you recycle the old ones and jazz them up with CGI. That's why I say this sequel is tired. It's an ideas deficit.