The two make for unhappy roommates, their canine civil war growing overnight to the point that they plot to rid their lives of the other. However, Max and his cozy days as the beloved household favorite receive a shock beyond the typical electric collar jolt when his owner (Ellie Kemper, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") brings home a new dog: a shaggy brown behemoth named Duke (Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"). Stand mixers are used instead as stand belly massagers.
SECRET LIFE OF PETS MOVIE
Thankfully, the movie quickly rights its ship, diving into a funny, jaunty montage of physical comedy bits uncovering your pets’ shenanigans when the owners head out. In fact, for the first few minutes, as our protagonist pup Max (Louis C.K.) sets the scene in needless voiceover while the second worst track off Taylor Swift’s "1989" plays, you might wish "The Secret Life of Pets" borrowed a little bit more from Pixar, namely its timeless, calm and confident "show don’t tell" visual storytelling. Well, you could, but considering the resulting fun and fluffy 90-minute romp, you probably won’t. So can you blame Illumination Entertainment for "The Secret Life of Pets," which plays and sounds so much like it was ripped straight from the Pixar playbook of "but what if (enter noun here) had feelings?" it’s hard to believe Pixar didn’t make it first … until you flip out "pets" for "toys" in the title and realize they pretty much did make it first. And who wouldn’t? After all, during what is almost universally agreed upon as a creative rut for the studio – with sequels disappointingly making up three of its next four features, one of which, even more disappointingly, is for "Cars" – Pixar has still delivered one of its greatest artistic triumphs in "Inside Out" and one of its greatest financial triumphs in "Finding Dory." At this point, almost every animation studio has taken its turn cheating off of Pixar’s test papers – including Pixar itself.
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