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Cast of secret life of pets movie8/23/2023 ![]() Meanwhile, Gidget tries to rescue Max’s favorite toy from a cat-packed apartment, and Snowball sets on a mission to free a white tiger named Hu from a circus.he first Secret Life of Pets could of been amazing, from the teaser trailer and some of the trailers, could be one of the biggest surprises of the year, however it turned out to be disappointing, but still good, it has wonderful animation, great voice-acting, excellent dialogue and a fun story with heart, it’s not quite one of the Illumination’s best but it’s still a enjoyable family flick!, so I was quite excited for the sequel which I think should be better then what the first did, so I saw the movie yesterday here in the UK, (sorry US, you’ll have to wait for a few weeks till it’s out) it got released yesterday and…. On a family trip to the countryside, Max meets a farm dog named Rooster, and both attempt to overcome his fears. It’s not a terrible film, it’s just not intelligent or entertaining enough to capture the attention of someone outside of the target demo, which has notoriously low standards.Max faces some major changes after his owner Katie gets married and now has a child. Kids will no doubt be satisfied with The Secret Life of Pets 2, because it’s light and adorably animated and full of silly jokes. It’s the kind of character-based humor that made the original Secret Life of Pets so witty in the first place. Harrison Ford lends a likable brusque to the film, a no-nonsense attitude in a film full of nonsense. Kevin Hart seems to struggle with Snowball, never giving him a sympathetic moment, and always playing the superhero schtick to the nines, and Tiffany Haddish has very little to work with. Jenny Slate and Lake Bell are always delightful, and the whole sequence where Chloe teaches Gidget how to be a cat would make any cat owner howl with laughter. Patton Oswalt makes Max his own, injecting an endearing, perpetual nervousness to a character who felt more like an everyman (everydog?) in the previous installment. Gidget’s and Max’s storylines are straight out of a generic sitcom, and Snowball’s subplot is so danged ridiculous that it feels like it’s in the wrong movie. The new film coasts on tired plots and characters we’ve already met going about their business. As a result it was genuinely funny, pretty much from beginning to end. The original Secret Life of Pets made the most of an unexpected cast of characters, revealing unexpected fascinations and depths in each animal character. That would be fine if the movie was entertaining enough to get away with it. Even then, the moral that “you can overcome a mental illness just by manning up” might not be the message every parent wants to impart to their kids. They don’t speak to a child’s experience nor do most of them have anything to teach children, except for Max’s storyline. The storylines serve little purpose other than providing fast-moving, brightly colored diversions for young kids. The Secret Life of Pets 2 is very plucky and amiable, but it’s not much more than that. Now he thinks he’s a real superhero, and he gets enlisted by a dog named Daisy (Tiffany Haddish) to help her rescue a white tiger from the circus. There’s also Snowball (Kevin Hart), the angry bunny from the original, who has settled into a life of domesticity with a little girl who dresses him in superhero costumes. In order to get it out she’ll have to infiltrate the cat community, so she takes lessons in cat behavior from her neighbor Chloe (Lake Bell). Gidget (Jenny Slate), a spoiled fluffy dog with a crush on Max, loses Max’s favorite toy in the apartment of a crazy cat lady. That’s hardly enough plot to fill a half-hour animated episode, so The Secret Life of Pets 2 adds several other storylines about Max’s friends from the first movie.
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