Metacritic reviews

A faster, funnier follow-up in which CGI-enhanced canines and felines effect a temporary truce to combat a common enemy.

A clever, funny movie that will entertain kids and adults.

This isn't so much that the story and characters are weak -- though they very much are -- but that animatronics and computer animation so anthropomorphize these critters that they bear more resemblance to cartoons than actual flesh-and-fur animals.

The movie is geared to preschoolers, so only parents dragged with them may complain. There's only that Looney Tunes overture to savor before the Acme production begins.

Tedious time-killer of a kiddie comedy.

Although it's great fun for the under-8 set and for those of us monitoring the chaos theory that is Nolte's career of late, this film is otherwise mediocre and features some of the most uninvolving 3-D CGI since "Clash of the Titans" earlier this year.

About as unremarkable as a film about talking animals organized into competing intelligence agencies can be.

No movie -- whether aimed at adults or kids or canines themselves -- has the right to be as tiresome and unoriginal as this action-comedy mutt.

Fails to deliver enough clever gags, emotional warmth, or eye-popping 3D to compete with recent family releases.

And it's still, in the spirit of the original film, an unbelievable piece of sh--.