The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 3D animated comedy film. The movie is produced by Illumination Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Secret Life of Pets was written by Brian Lynch, Cinco Paul, and Ken Daurio and directed by Chris Renaud.
The story is Max thinks he has the perfect life with his owner Katie. One day everything seems normal until Katie brings home a new dog named Duke. Then through a series of escalating events they must work together if they want to get back home to their beloved owner.
- Negatives
Now I'll freely admit, despite being a fan of this movie it does suffer from predictable moments. Which does ruin the more suspenseful moments that the filmmakers set up.
- Mix
I really did enjoy this movie's use of humor. There were plenty of times scenes got me to laugh. My absolute favorite one was when that highly classed Poodle starts jamming out to heavy metal music. Although if there's one thing that needed toned down it was some of Snowball's more screaming parts.
- Positives
One thing you'll love about The Secret Life of Pets is it's characters. There are a lot of entertaining ones such as Gidget, Chole, Tiberius etc. They were wonderful in their own way.
The other thing I enjoyed from the film was the performances. The actors really gave their respected characters plenty of charm and comedic wit.
Another aspect of The Secret Life of Pets that makes it a fun watch is the journey. The film put us on a thrill ride through New York and they did it without going to the more clichéd landmarks such as Times Square.
The final feature to give the movie credit for is the animation. It's very well done and handled perfectly. It really shines with an even balance of the pets moving both cartoony and realistically.
Despite The Secret Life of Pets obvious flaw of predictability it's still very much an entertaining movie. The characters are great, the performances get two thumbs up, the journey throughout the film was fun, and the animation is amazing. And while the humor is funny I really wished they did away with some of Snowball's shouting.
My final rating is Good
You know what I find really funny regrading this flick is people say it ripped off Toy Story even though you could easily say Toy Story ripped off The Brave Little Toaster. I'm just saying you shouldn't hold that against the movie because one classic film didn't necessarily invent a certain concept. Anyways that's going to do it for me, but come back on Thursday, June 6th for the final chapter of my Road to Dark Phoenix with my review of X-Men: Apocalypse. Until then enjoy the rest of your day.
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