Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

"Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was good for what it was: a kid's movie for its time. Looking back, the CGI is quite dated and the story line is pretty generic. It's definitely no classic that people would enjoy watching again in their adulthood, but there's been much worse movies out there that are more cringeworthy. Despite its generic story line, it's nothing more than a harmless sappy movie with some good morals thrown in.

Aunt Viv (Jamie Lee Curtis) is going away and leaving her spoiled little dog Chloe (Drew Barrymore) to her irresponsible niece Rachel (Piper Perabo). They don't like each other. Gardener Sam Cortez (Manolo Cardona) has a dog Papi (George Lopez). Rachel has a last minute vacation in Mexico with her girlfriends Angela (Ali Hillis) and Blair (Marguerite Moreau). Chloe is dognapped into a dog fighting ring and joins in a mass escape led by Delgado (Andy Garcia). Rachel goes to Mexico City to find her while Sam comes to help bringing along Papi.So this is a silly kids movie. The dogs are cute and actually funny sometimes. Everybody grows and learns some good lessons. However it never gets beyond being a silly kids movie, and there are some bad stereotyping going on. It becomes more annoying than touching. It's better than expected but that's not saying much.

Like I said in the Fred the Movie review, I've got nothing to say for the summary of this review. Is it me or am I having a feeling that this movie mixed together ideas from Homeward Bound and the infamous Mondo Cane where actual dogs are slaughter for their meat and for the intro? Yep, that's pretty much my suspicion there. The lizard and rat duo tried to look like a poor man's Furry version of Laurel and Hardy or Abbot and Costello, but obviously, that idea bit the dust. Wait a second? There's a dog fighting scene in this movie? Are you freaking sadistic?!! Who was the wise guy to okay a dog fighting scene in this poor, pathetic excuse of a kid's movie?!! Every last character in this movie is bland and not one of the voice actors for the dogs have put effort into the acting. I am not only appalled, but ashamed that this movie tried to be a kid's flick, but instead turn out to be a stinking dog turd of a poor man's version of Homeward Bound.

I used to love Disney movies, simply because they made you laugh and cry, all while holding the title of a family movie. But now, most Disney movies are being defined by fart jokes and break-dancing animals. Seriously? Okay, the first fart joke may have been funny, but using it in every movie gets bland. And why in all new Disney movies do they have some kind of animal with a weird quirk about it that somehow ends up break-dancing at the end? (College Road Trip, Bedtime Stories, and now this) Disney is able to redeem itself with Pixar movies and movies like The Princess and the Frog, but it won't last. Why am I making a big deal about this? Because many people out there are saying that we should just leave it alone because it's a kids movie. Bull crap. The Lion King was a kids movie and it won over audiences across the world! Up was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars! And all this was achieved without fart jokes and break-dancing animals! Therefore, being a kid's movie does not exonerate it from sucking royally! And another thing, if The Lion King and Up did not use those things I have mentioned before and accomplished a spot on our movie shelves and in our hearts, shouldn't that say to Disney "Hey! Maybe if we make more movies like that, without farts and lame jokes, we'll get more audiences!"? I don't know, but I think it's sad that kids are now relying on bad humor to entertain them instead of good, old-fashioned, sturdy plot-lines. But why does this movie suck? Lame jokes, potty humor, break-dancing animals, bad plots, and horrible acting. I never thought it was possible to overact when all you're doing is a voice-over job, but this movie showed me up. The moral of this story is skip this movie. Nothing about this movie is good, even though it has an all-star cast. Like I said before, being a kids movie doesn't exonerate it from the crap category. 2 out of 10, and the only reason I'm not giving this a zero is because I still have faith in Disney (plus, IMDb doesn't have 0/10 on it's scale).