
You can not help but believe that than reminding us of the little yellow people if they'd focused a bit more effort on this film's narrative, The Secret Life of Pets could have been more than simply a noisy bit of fluff. But when they discover that Kevin Hart's Snowball, an adorable white bunny, intends to take vengeance on pets that have happy lives they must put their differences aside, and he's amassed an army of abandoned animals to help him. Connected product tie ins outside the film - toys, novels, games, clothing, etc. Snow Ball is the leader of an underground gang of creatures known as The Flushed Pets.
It's, quite clearly, a common dislike, one which is acted upon and balloons until both animals find themselves on the run in the dog catchers and a crazed bunny named Snowball (Kevin Hart). That is for one clear reason: The Secret Life of Pets might as well be called a puzzle built of bits lifted from other sources, Generic Animated Animal Movie. As everything gets wrapped up with a pleasant little puppy bow on top, parents may find their heads hunting for the fundamental point of the film. Along the way, unlikely friendships are formed, many sausages are eaten and there is a Brooklyn Bridge chase sequence that feels every bit as exciting as an action movie.
Resisting the temptation to invest its characters and storytelling with any especially winsome, distinctive qualities, the picture quickly devolves into an infernally busy and overextended pursuit sequence crammed with urgently unfunny comic patter and noisy, needless activity.
I loved the relationships depicted between the pets and their owners and if you're living in a city at the instant where space & time prevents you from having a furry companion of your own, this will twinge at your heart and make you desperate to pat anything on a lead in the road after.
The key difference between the timeless old cartoons and this new performance is the urban setting and the cheeky, malicious overthetop clown fest that comic performer Kevin Hart instills in crazed and the rebellious Snowball. There are some amusing-sweet observations about pets and our projections on to them.