If you’ve lived in America for longer than 20 minutes, then you understand how Americans feel about animals and movies.

Movies with animals are a whole new level of adoration.

For the last few decades, all the big name entertainment companies, like Sony, Warner Brothers, and Disney, have been making bank off of the “heartwarming animal-centered family comedy” genre. There’s usually a new one every year or so.

Hence the movie Nine Lives, which is set to hit theaters this Friday.

I’m sure you’ve seen the trailer. Workaholic dad learns a valuable lesson about the importance of ‘family time’ after he somehow gets stuck in the body of a cat.

Here’s the kicker: The movie has relevant people in it, like Jennifer Garner and Kevin Spacey. Usually these movies star D-list actors who used to be a big deal, or smaller actors who people only know from movies like Sharknado, not immediately recognizable people who are forever going to have their faces attached to this movie.

This is not the first time something like this has come out. A few years ago, there was The Shaggy Dog, which starred Tim Allen as the family-man dad character who turns into a dog (basically the exact same plotline as Nine Lives). The Beethoven and Air Bud movies were both huge in the 1990s and early 2000s, because people love dogs, especially dogs that get into slapstick-comedy situations and play sports. Combine that with wholesome family values and cute kids, and you’ve got a surefire way make money.

Then there were the more questionable ones, like Alvin and the Chipmunks, which has somehow exploded into a huge franchise, despite being indescribably annoying. Bee Movie, though entirely animated, was also marketed as a similar concept – despite the underlying theme being that it’s totally okay to fall in love with an insect, but nobody seemed to be bothered by that.

Nine Lives is definitely going to make money. People are going to go see it with their kids and lose all sight of how old and tired the concept is. If you have Jennifer Garner, a cute little girl, and a fluffy cat that sounds like Kevin Spacey all in one movie, people are going to go see it, no matter how unoriginal and probably boring it’s going to be.

Personally, I’m going to get my Jennifer Garner fix by watching 13 Going on 30 and bypassing all of this.

Watch the trailer below.

-Intern Emily