Previews looked funny - not for 90 minutes!

Rating: 3/10 (9 July 2016)

I don't usually go to animated movies. I drop the kids off and pick them up but I love cats and the previews had a couple of interesting looking felines so I decided to stay for this one ... It had good moments but, overall, the movie was tedious. The cats were good and the hawk was very good. The dogs were sappy and their personalities seemed more boring than interesting. Dogs are supposed to have a special connection with their humans - the humans are in the movie so little, there's no time for a relationship to develop so it's really a romp of pets on their own. For kids, that's enough. Adults are looking for a little more of a connection to identify with. I did understand the message that most pets are left alone too long during the day and that pets have become disposable, discarded when no longer useful or convenient. But adults know that already. I don't think the message was strong enough for the kids. If you're an adult thinking that this might be a funny movie - it's not funny enough, not poignant enough, though the ending is nice.