Max is a happy dog living with his owner
until one day; she brings another dog to live with them, a huge brown dog named
Duke. Naturally they fight for their
dominance and ends up lost and having to travel back to their owner. Along the way they meet with other animals
who hate other domesticated animals and humans in general, as well as their
friends coming around to save them.
Unfortunately, The Secret Life of Pets’ plot is extremely formulaic and
familiar. While the animation and voice
acting are strong, a lot of the humor is predictable. The characters are your typical clichés and
you know that the protagonists are going to make up and become the best buddies
at the end. Even the whole angle of the
villain being an extremely cute bunny but is actually capable of evil has been
done to death before. The film is good
to watch if you need to kill some time but it lacks any resemblance of nuances
or complexities in its execution to be something you’d watch again and again.
