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This just popped into my head when I started writing this review, Illumination just isn't very good at what they do. Nor have I seen Sing yet, but I'm willing to give it a shot when it comes out on DVD. I haven't seen Hop and I don't plan on it. This covers Despicable Me 1 and 2, The Lorax, Minions (which I hated) and this one. Perhaps terrible is too strong of a word, but I have not enjoyed any one of their films. And another thing about Illumination Entertainment, and I only just thought about this right now, but they're a terrible studio. The Illumination Entertainment logo that plays prior to the film has a minion looking at the logo and screaming Illumination in his stupidly annoying minion voice. Oh and another aside, the fucking minions, yes THOSE minions, are also infesting movies that they aren't even meant to be in. With that pointless and unnecessary tangent out of the way, on to this movie.
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I suppose I could write this later, but I really don't want to, plus I have to do other stuff. Again, you could say that I don't do that anyway, so this will be just like a regular review. Seriously though, I'm on sort of a high that I don't think I could formulate my thoughts in coherent or interesting fashion. Then again, you could say that none of my reviews are any good to begin with. The laser-sharp focus on home, family, and friendship to the exclusion of all else seems the perfect evocation of how our pets might feel.This review probably won't be very good. Pets is pure joy, unencumbered by anything of import greater than a gentle message to take care of our companion animals: the putative villain of the piece, discarded magician’s bunny Snowball (the voice of Kevin Hart: Ride Along 2, Get Hard), is nowhere near as evil as he thinks he is he’s just crushed by his abandonment and lashing out because of it. But it’s the wistfulness of Max’s longing to get home to Katie that makes the movie sing with sweetness, as does the devotion to get him home displayed by Max’s friends, other neighborhood pets such as Gidget the fluffball handbag dog (the voice of Jenny Slate, who just about steals the show), and Chloe the cat (the voice of Lake Bell: No Escape, Man Up). Visually, Pets is gorgeous, giving us a small animal’s perspective on the Big City, all looming skyscrapers in the distance and cosy apartment houses up close, as well as some wonderfully silly Looney Tunes-esque cartoon shenanigans. ( Pets is preceded, in fact, by a new Minions short that is much more successful than their recent feature film.) Their adventures along the path back home are cleverly constructed and amusingly rendered by a team of mostly Despicable Me/ Minions vets - codirectors Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, screenwriters Ken Daurio, Brian Lynch, and Cinco Paul - and breathe with the same wacky inventiveness of the Minions. Comedy of disaster ensues when their competition for the spot of top dog in the household results in them being separated from their inattentive afternoon human dog-walker and lost in the Big City. The comfortable life of terrier Max (the voice of Louis C.K.: Trumbo, American Hustle), who considers himself the “luckiest dog in New York” thanks to his person Katie (the voice of Ellie Kemper: Sex Tape, They Came Together), is thrown into disarray when she brings home his “new brother,” Duke (the voice of Eric Stonestreet: The Loft, Identity Thief), a large, shambling, clumsy sheepdoggy creature.
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So best consider the charming The Secret Life of Pets more an animated fantasy than a documentary, in case you were in any doubt. Unless you have a Bad Dog or a Bad Cat, in which case the torn-up sofas and puddles of vomit you return to are already pulling back the curtain of mystery on their daily doings. What do our pets do all day while we’re at work or school? Mostly sleep, probably.