Opening to Mexican VHS "Cats and Dogs"

Found this at a Goodwill recently- the Warner Bros. movie "Cats and Dogs" on VHS released in Mexico and dubbed in Spanish. (It's also been retitled "Como Gatos Y Perros" which means "LIKE Cats and Dogs" in English.) Spanish dubs aren't quite a novelty anymore thanks to US DVDs usually including them, but the stuff at the beginning of the tape is still interesting.

Notice it opens with a gray screen instead of the traditional black. Then there's a number of Mexican anti-piracy notices, the current AND late-80s Warner Home Video openings, two different DVD promos in Spanish (I've heard US VHS's of this era had DVD promos too- nice, but why didn't they ever do the same for laserdisc?). Then a paid commercial for Nokia (I always hated seeing these on VHS tapes, but I'll rant about that on more suitable titles like "Rain Man"), trailer for the first Harry Potter movie without the dumbed-down American title (and en Ingles con subtitulos en espanol) and the first Lord of the Rings movie- these are letterboxed but the actual movie on this tape isn't. In between the trailers we have another ad for Six Flags amusement park outside Mexico City- notice the music in this is currently used for MGM's DVD fanfare.

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Entertainment

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• Spanish
• Espanol
• VHS
• Warner
• Mexico
• VillageRoadshow

[Carsonsfanclub]

Where Did You Get That VHS @eyeh8nbc?

[IVANOFVOCHITO88]

Ahi es donde empieza el VHS de "Como perros...": -WHV logo -Advertencia -WHV logo 1980mid (sin audio) -Diga NO... -Logo AMV -Comentarios?... -WHV logo -DVD (comercial mexicano) -Nokia -Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone (trailer) -Six Flags México -Lord of the Rings -Video DVD de Philips -WHV logo -Intro de la película

[IVANOFVOCHITO88]

Se llama "Como perros y gatos", e incluiste el logo clásico de WHV (sin audio) el promo de AMV de 3 logos lo subi junto con el de Tycoon

[gerryono]

I'm ashamed to say i've seen this movie

[TVBRobotnikReturns]

This is rare, since it has the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo in the between the Warner Bros. Pictures logo and the Village Roadshow logo.

[eyeh8nbc]

@sygo7g I've seen tapes from all over the place show up around here- I picked up 2 from Japan same time I got this. I've just started picking up some of them, which I don't know if it's a good thing or not. I saw a Disney tape from Argentina a while ago which I regret not grabbing, they're only a buck. Foreign DVDs come up often too, though I've still never seen one from Region 5 (Africa I think).

[eyeh8nbc]

@primenemisis This tape is only from 2001- after laserdisc was pretty much done, but VHS still held on for a couple more years. (Don't know the history of formats in Mexico, if they're still making tapes there or not.)