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Rogue actors: Tippett Studio creates two con men in the form of a rat and an iguana for Beverly Hills Chihuahua.(Animal Modeling)

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If you were to dismiss Disney's family comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua as just another film starring real animals with digital lip-synching, you would fall for the con. Although it's true that most of the dogs in the film are real with digital muzzle replacements, two of the leading animal characters, Manuel the rat (Cheech Marin) and Chico the iguana (Paul Rodriguez), are not.

Raja Gosnell of Scooby-Doo fame directed the film; Michael McAlister, who won an Oscar for Indiana/ones and the Temple of Doom and received an Oscar nomination for Willow, supervised the visual effects. Two London-based studios handled the muzzle replacements ...

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