- The Bannisters are back with a new family addition - a mischievous pup named Eve. Watch as everyone's favorite dog, Zeus, learns to love his new sister and take down some bumbling thieves.
- In snowy Connecticut, former police dog Zeus is so happy that his family is going to Malibu, California for Christmas. He lives with George and Belinda Bannister, who have been married 20 years as of Dec. 26 and have two children and one on the way. Zeus can talk, at least to other animals and the audience. Belinda's mother, who wishes Belinda would come be with her for the holidays, can't understand him. Maybe it's just as well. A person wouldn't want to use the phone after he answered it.
George's brother Barbara has been married several times. Now she is a widow whose husband has left her a fabulous house. She competes with a cranky neighbor Ned to see who can put up the best Christmas decorations.
Ted and Stewey have a dog grooming service which is not doing too well. And they are in debt to loan shark Tony Rowe, who insists on being paid by Christmas Eve or else. If they can't come up with the money, he will accept the very valuable star rumored to be on top of Barbara's Christmas tree.
Dumb and Dumber, as Rowe calls them, set up a listening device which appears to work very well, as it can hear what is going on in several different rooms. They stake out the place as the family celebrates.
This film is apparently a sequel, as the guys have met Zeus and the Bannisters before and can't believe they've encountered them again this far away.
The first gift to be opened is a puppy named Mimi, a yellow lab like Zeus. Zeus is reluctant to accept competition, as he has always been George's best friend. But everyone just loves Mimi (who can also talk, at least to other animals and the viewers). And while Zeus covers for Mimi's bad behavior, Mimi also gets credit for something good Zeus actually did. And then Mimi does something so terrible--for which Zeus gets blamed--that Zeus gets banished to a fenced-in area. There, he meets other animals who can communicate with him.
Meanwhile, Belinda believes George has forgotten their anniversary, and she has reason to believe he is cheating. At the very least, he doesn't make an effort to be romantic, and if he doesn't know what to do on his own, she's not going to tell him.
What happens next is kind of a low-budget "Home Alone".
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