Likewise, all the details of the furry and feathered cast, including all of the fur itself, are impressively rendered by the Illumination team, who have created a lively and colorful palette that recalls Technicolor films of the 1950s. Similarly, Hannibal Buress (a dachshund), Jenny Slate (a fuzzy white lap dog whose exact breed I could not. On the technical side, there are some marvels here - especially Renaud’s vision of a vertically exuberant New York City, with skyscrapers stretching beyond the frame and fire escapes leading forever upwards into different apartments and different lives, as if we’re seeing everything from the viewpoint of a dog watching the world of humans from the ground.
That means, for starters, that it resists the temptation - even if only. Occasionally all the fuss results in a memorable set-piece - such as a digression into a sausage factory that nods to both Grease and a Busby Berkley musical - but by the time the third act rolls around, the cacophony grows exhausting and the laughs become rarer, especially when all the action-movie antics take over. If The Secret Life of Pets were a Pixar film, it would definitely be Pixar lite.
Like its main three characters, it has learned to be comfortable in its own animated skin. Illumination Studios The Secret Life of Pets 2 once again gives us humans a glimpse into what our pets get up to when we leave the house but this time the adventure (well one of them, anyway) moves to the countryside where new exploits await terrier Max (voiced by Patton Oswalt) and mutt Duke (voiced by Eric Stonestreet.
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Like the professional dogwalker who can’t exactly keep count of Max and his cohorts, it feels like the filmmakers are juggling too many chatty creatures at once, while trying to maintain a plot that tends to grow more outlandish as the story progresses. If the knock on The Secret Life of Pets was that it was a rip-off of Toy Story, then the second film better grounds itself in its own universe. Much of the humor comes from the fact that these animals have extremely human characteristics while remaining adorable little critters, even if not all of them aim to please their caretakers in the way that Max always does.īut there are many more castmembers to come, including a kvetching hawk (Albert Brooks), a Cockney-accented alley cat (Steve Coogan) and a sly old Basset Hound (Dana Carvey) with the most bodacious bachelor pad in the city - to name some of several additional characters that wind up crowding the screen for the sake of a few short laughs. Renaud dishes out some decent gags during the opening reels, especially when introducing us to the other pets in Max’s building, including a lazy house cat ( Lake Bell), an overzealous pug dog (Bobby Moynihan) and a fluffy Pomeranian (Jenny Slate) who has the hots for our hero.
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