Beverly Hills Chihuahua

• Jamie Lee Curtis: Vivian Ashe
• Piper Perabo: Rachel Ashe Lynn
• Manolo Cardona: Sam
• Maury Sterling is Rafferty
• Jesús Ochoa: Officer Ramirez

Beverly Hills Chihuahua is an American family and adventure film. The comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell is a Walt Disney production and had its world premiere on 25 September 2008 in Australia.

He started on 3 October 2008 in the U.S., on 16 January 2009 in the UK and on 30 April in the German cinemas. It is after yours, My & Our dating from 2005, the seventh film produced by Raja Gosnell finished.

Action

Vivian Ashe lives in Beverly Hills and is the owner of two spoiled Chihuahua Chloe lady. One day leaves Vivian Ashe, as it must while away, the dog lady her irresponsible niece Rachel, who is to look after the dog. After Rachel decides with her friends to go on a weekend trip to Mexico, Chloe is suddenly lost. The luxury spoiled dog lady is suddenly confronted with the harsh reality of life on the road. In her distress she meets Delgado, a lonely German Shepherd, who worked as a police dog for the local police before his partner died and he lost his sense of smell. With him, she builds a friendly relationship, but then gets into danger when she meets the ruthless Doberman El Diablo and flees from him. Rachel, who is afraid of the reaction of her aunt when they come home, decides to Chihuahua lady in Mexico to search. In the meantime also encounter Papi, a small hyperactive chihuahua who is in love with Chloe, as well as his master, who is among other things a gardener at Rachel's aunt, add in the search. Meanwhile, Chloe manages to escape with the help of the police dog Delgado the sneaky rat Manuel, and their friend, a moronic iguana named Chico. A short time later El Diablo attempts to Chloe to its owner, a local organizer of dog fights, because this wants to blackmail Chloe's mistress. However, the police, Rachel and the gardener come along with Papi and Delgado to help. At the end are all back home safe; Chloe comes with Papi together, just like its owner and Rachel, and Delgado is reinstated as a police dog. Meanwhile, El Diablo is taken and briefly put the shelter before it comes to a rich lady with a penchant for pink dresses. The rat Manuel and his iguana friend also get the luxury to know and refrain from further your quest.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing made ​​to the FFS film and television - Synchron GmbH in Berlin. The dialog book by Norman and Matt, who was also responsible for synchronous Director.

Audience

Reviews

The film was well received, according to the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from critics little. At the score of 13 May 2009, the number of positive ratings was only 40 % for a total of 92 reviews.

A positive criticism on the work of the director gave Hubert Charles of kino.de, who said that " Raja Gosnell has already demonstrated in two, Scooby- Doo' movies that he is well versed in dealing with computer animated dogs ".

Wrote Mark Olsen of the LA Times that one. The whole thing as a "Paris Hilton complex" to view where children are treated like princes and princesses and get everything they want And what they want is a simple conversation without great trappings.

H.-G. Fiedler of the journal TVMedia gave a fairly positive review by he said that the film " overall a well-intentioned, not always good dog tale for rather small children and Councilor widows who long before Paris Hilton & Co in the handbag into their dogs have smuggled coffee house " was.

Financial success

Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success. Just one week after the official start of the movie film took in 3,215 cinemas opened a nearly 29.3 million U.S. dollars, which meant an average of 9,114 dollars per movie. On the first weekend Beverly Hills Chihuahua state with the most revenue generated in the first place of the list. The following weekend, the film with nearly 17.5 million U.S. Dollard was again placed on rank 1. To 10 May 2009, the film played only in the United States about 94.5 million U.S. dollars. In mitgezählten revenue from the remaining countries (about 51.3 million U.S. dollars) to get a total revenue of just under 145.8 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

Others

On 3 March 2009 Beverly Hills Chihuahua was released on Disney DVD and Blu- ray Disc.

2011 was issued with Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, a sequel that was produced directly for the DVD market. In Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 this was followed by a third part.