Review of The Secret Life of Pets (2016) by Tlee — 29 Jul 2016

Such a complete mess of a movie. There must have been a dozen writers on it. The joke about dogs coming from wolves definitely did not come from the same brain that thought up the wiener factory dream sequence (so stupid and unnecessary).

And suddenly the two dogs are driving a bus? WTH? They can talk, sure, but if they can drive, the whole first 90% of the movie makes no sense. Someone thought it'd be ironic/cute to have a blue-eyed bunny talk in ebonics, but it didn't work.

Just... kind of offensive and I wish we were beyond this, but we're not. Duke's old owner dying, Duke flipping out on the family, WHY? The bad guys and good guys joining forces -- what? Why? So contrived and inventing scenes and side-stories that only confuse the plot, which should be simple, with lots of character interaction.

instead, the story was utterly complicated -- I dare any person, child or adult, to retell this movie the next day -- and there are too many characters, so we invest in none of them, and...where'd the voiceover at the beginning go? Is it Max's movie or not? Very poorly done.

Insulting.