

Kids when they’re over and work for both adults and children. The best animated movies give us themes to discuss with our In the end, it’s tooĪggressively likable to hate-especially given its strong character design andĮxcellent voice work-but simultaneously too shallow and forgettable To the “new guy who mixes things up” storytelling dynamic. Story,” from the idea that we don’t know what our toys/pets do while we’re gone To be more direct, it’s an almost beat-for-beat rip of Pixar’s “Toy Owner Katie’s ( Ellie Kemper) bike, but it’s more about apartments, fireĮscapes, roads and sewers than parks, and how a lovable group of animals is forced to Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) speeding through Central Park in the basket of his “The Secret Life of Pets” is a kind-hearted, sweet storyĪbout the unique relationship not only between pets and their owners butīetween pets and major cities like New York.
