Arriving in the dog days of an unusually mediocre summer for big-studio entertainments, the picture is a glorified hairball pulled together from the strands of better, more appealing movies and then noisily coughed up and disgorged at a multiplex near you.
Opening with a Taylor Swift-scored tribute to New York and ending with a traffic-stopping action climax that has the grave misfortune of following “Finding Dory” into theaters, “The Secret Life of Pets” is governed by a spirit not of revelation but of confirmation. No, the questions and possibilities raised by this new feature-length cartoon - antically directed by Chris Renaud and his co-director, Yarrow Cheney - are too deep and perplexing to be discussed in such crass commercial terms.ĭoes the movie perhaps mean to enlighten the stereotypically inclined animal lovers in the audience - to show us that dogs can be more than dumb, slobbering oafs and that not all cats are contemptuous, self-absorbed snobs? That unbeknownst to us, our favorite domestic animals are actually fascinating, fully developed characters in their own right? Now that we’ve observed the secret lives of bees, the American teenager and Walter Mitty, does this latest tell-all actually contain any secrets worth spilling? Twitter: /goodyk.Why does “The Secret Life of Pets” exist? I mean besides the obvious reasons, like the bankability of family-friendly animation, the ticket surcharges for 3-D or the fact that Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are trying to boost their share of the non-Minion collectible toy market. Reach Goodykoontz at Facebook: /GoodyOnFilm. “The Secret Life of Pets” would have been a funnier, better movie if he’d stayed there. But it’s a lot more interesting when we see what the pets are getting away with when we’re not there (and who hasn’t wondered), or when Max simply lays out his goals for the day to Gidget: He’s got big plans, really big - he’s going to sit and stare at the door and wait for Katie to return. Snowball gives Hart a good vehicle for his all-over-the-place humor, and it’s intriguing to see Louis C.K.
There are still some laughs, and the animals are cute. “The Secret Life of Pets” is one of them.
MORE AZCENTRAL ON SOCIAL: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | PinterestĪ lot of movies abandon smart ideas. Maybe it’s me, but I find the mere notion of an alligator living in the sewer among the Flushed Pets funnier than a tattooed pig driving a car (with an iguana working the accelerator and brake pedals).
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