Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance

Jaime Lee Curtis
Drew Barrymore	Chloe
George Lopez	Papi
Piper Perabo	Rachel Ashe Lynn
Andy Garcia	Delgado
Cheech Marin	Manuel
Paul Rodriguez	Chico
Plácido Domingo	Monte
Edward James Olmos	Diablo
Loretta Devine	Delta
Jamie Lee Curtis	Aunt Viv
Manolo Cardona

Director	Raja Gosnell
Producer	Louanne Brickhouse; David Hoberman; Todd Lieberman
Writer	Analisa LaBianco; Jeffrey Bushell

Beverly Hills Chihuahua finds director Raja Gosnell back on the talking-dog beat (following his live-action Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleased), this time in an ambitious, tongue-in-cheek comedy with a fun cast of onscreen and vocal actors. Piper Perabo plays Rachel, niece of a Beverly Hills eccentric (Jamie Lee Curtis) who spends much of her fortune pampering Chloe (voiced by Drew Barrymore), a spoiled Chihuahua used to pacing through this world with booties on her paws. Chloe gets dog-napped while Rachel takes a vacation in Mexico, and finds protection from a misfit German Shepherd named Delgado (Andy Garcia), who has a painful secret in his past. The two get into and out of a lot of scrapes, trying to stay ahead of a vicious dog (Edward James Olmos) working for the head of an illegal dogfight gambling syndicate. Computer effects turn the film's many four-legged characters into talking critters capable of leaping onto train boxcars and leading the heroine into the Indiana Jones-like ancestral home of the chihuahua breed. The comedy is crisp and kid-friendly, the story of Chloe rise out of silliness into canine authenticity, plus the film's surprising ambitiousness, are all very winning. --Tom Keogh

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