This is about as good as “The Secret Life of Pets 2” gets, in that it encompasses all the (few) things the film does well – mostly animal-centric sight gags.Īnd those sight gags are fun! When Katie brings Max to the vet because he has developed a nervous habit of scratching himself from worrying about Liam’s safety, we get to meet a bunch of animals with silly psychological “issues” that we would imagine them to have, or that we would have guessed they have from watching our own pets or our friends’ pets. And we get an enjoyable montage of Liam at first terrorizing and then enjoying and imitating Max and Duke, the big shaggy brown dog Katie adopted at the end of the first film.
The movie had me on its side within seconds, as Max narrates that he absolutely hates children before becoming enamored when he has one “of his own”. Somehow, the creative team was able to come up with just enough new variations on this theme for the opening twenty minutes or so to be kind of fun, mostly thanks to the introduction of a new character: Liam, newborn son to our hero Max’s owner, Katie. 2019’s sequel “The Secret Life of Pets 2” is basically the same thing, except that it’s using the same clever idea from 2016, which was already exhausted by the first film. 2016’s “ The Secret Life of Pets” was basically the animated version of one of those movies based on a Saturday Night Live sketch: A clever idea that made for a hilarious trailer that wasn’t able to sustain itself for the running time of a feature film. THE TEAM – Chris Renaud (Director) & Brian Lynch (Writer)
THE CAST – Patton Oswalt, Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Tiffany Haddish, Lake Bell, Nick Kroll, Dana Carvey, Ellie Kemper, Chris Renaud, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan & Harrison Ford Luckily for Max, he soon catches a break when he meets Rooster, a gruff farm dog who tries to cure the lovable pooch of his neuroses. When the family takes a trip to the countryside, nervous Max has numerous run-ins with canine-intolerant cows, hostile foxes and a scary turkey. THE STORY – Max the terrier must cope with some major life changes when his owner gets married and has a baby.
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