Beverly Hills Chihuahua / Underdog

Beverly Hills Chihuahua - A spoiled pet Chihuahua is swept away from her comfortable 90210 existence, when the impulsive niece (Piper Perabo) of her wealthy owner (Jamie Lee Curtis) combines dog-sitting with a vacation in Mexico. When Chloe gets lost south of the border, her scrappy Chihuahua admirer, Papi (voiced by George Lopez), embarks on a mission to bring her back home. While Chloe's pint-size dog in shining armour searches for his posh crush, she must contend with the rough-and-tumble side of life, learning a few important lessons along the way.

Underdog - To save the day here comes Underdog a 1970s Saturday morning cartoon transformed to glorious semi-CGI animated life its a talking animal live-action film--a la BABE--with wisecracks aplenty. Voiced by Jason Lee Underdog is the joke of the K-9 police force after his weakness for ham disrupts a public ceremony. Dejectedly he lets himself get abducted for an animal experiment by a mad scientist Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage). He escapes doused in experimental chemicals to become a dog with 80 times his normal strength. Jim Belushi embodies the sad-sack security guard at the laboratory who finds Underdog and takes him home as a playmate for his alienated tweener son (Alex Neuberger). The fact that chaos follows will come as no surprise but what may is the genial tone the film maintains throughout.

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