Mercifully, I've now completed the fabled "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" trilogy. Odd as this seems to say, I do think that they saved the best one for last, though I would still argue that this is awful. It has one scene that I thought was, at least, passible.

For reasons I never quite understood Sam (Marcus Coloma),Rachel (Erin Cahill) and their various puppies move into a struggling hotel. Sam takes a job as a gardener, Erin as a Chef and Chloe (Odette Annable) as the hotel's mascot. The hotel though has a problem, a more illustrious hotel nearby is poaching their customers . . . . and I'm sure there are other things going on . . . One of the puppies doesn't like puppy school, or something... Honestly, who cares?

That this one has a plot, even one I can't really remember only a few days later already makes this a better film than the risible first sequel. Erin Cahill returns although because of reasons, Rachael moved on from being a socialite, to a . . rain forest researcher (?) . . . And is now a Chef apparently. Sam at least is consistent in his job. Frances Fisher throws a bit of credibility to the rest of the cast, and Kyle Gass shows up in a minor role.

It's mostly dreadful, obviously. The performances poor, the visual effects work on the "talking" is increasingly sketchy and jokes are risible. All except for one scene in which they audition bands for a party (or something... again who cares). The auditioning dogs are puns based on existing bands, and some of them, along with a scattershot list that is ran though afterwards, was occasionally, very nearly, actually amusing.

I'm still not totally done with Disney dog movies, I know, I still have to watch them go into space and a bunch of other terrible ideas, but hopefully, following this dire series, I've earned myself a little respite.

This was the best of the 3 movies, mainly because of the ending. I enjoyed the human scenes, but in a movie about talking dogs they are not the main focus. The music bands part made me smile but seeing the dogs use music instruments was weird. And also the australian dogs barking instead of singing because american dogs couldn't understand them made me question about the lore of the movies. For example how we see dogs move their mouth to talk, do humans see that too? Btw I appreciated the female dog in this movie more than the puppies. Good girl.

This is easily my favourite film in this series and it's easy to see why. The cast mostly carry's over from the second film along with new characters including the Immeasurably likeable Kyle Gass in a surprisingly on brand role. It continues the themes of cultural appreciation and the value of family both born and chosen but with a new vibrancy. New friends and villains who may just be friends we don't know well enough yet. Along with these philosophical ideations is and incredibly funny music sequence wich serves as a vehicle for almost 15mins of dog/music puns.

Only for viewers who want to be entirely delighted.