The Secret Life may take a dog’s perspective, but it’s not a bad metaphor for the neighboring nations of heaven and hell found in New York City, block to block. Turn a corner, and there’s a sausage factory for a snack-attack turn another corner, and you’re in an alley with feral cats hanging from clotheslines, claws out. Cue the incredible journey home.Īn animated Homeward Bound hopscotching through New York’s boroughs, The Secret Life of Pets paints the city with an ecstatic brush, from the thin-air altitudes of construction cranes to down into the city’s watery bowels: a riot of life with its own secrets revealed about small-quarters living. But when Katie brings home a rescue mutt named Duke (Stonestreet), a wedge is driven into their tight twosome, and then Duke gets them both picked up by animal services. Max is happy with domesticated life: He counts owner Katie (Kemper) as his soul mate, and he’s got an apartment building full of fur friends to pal around with while she’s away at work. Hollywood doesn’t hire black actors to top-bill its animated entertainments.) Instead, the loyal if unadventurous terrier Max (Louis C.K.) is the main attraction. Here’s a fun one to anticipate on the drive home from The Secret Life of Pets: “Ma, when we flushed Flipper, did he go to a sewer under the city and join a revolutionary gang hell-bent on overthrowing the pet owner hegemony?”īunny Snowball – a fluffy-wuffy bundle of class outrage, voiced by Kevin Hart with pungent fury – is the leader of that gang, but disappointingly, he isn’t the hero here. Kids tend to come out of movies with questions.
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