Enjoyable but forgettable

Rating: 6/10 (11 February 2017)

The Secret Life of Pets is truly an enjoyable animation film that mixes those elements that work in any animated film to make it family friendly: good visuals, nice main characters, cuteness, adventure, clean humour, no hot topics, and overall fun. Besides, as this is not a movie about anthropomorphic animals, but about real pets and street animals, so it has the added flare of reproducing the behavior that some animals show in real life with humans, something that will delight pet owners.
The voicing of the characters is perhaps the thing that I enjoyed the most, really great in all cases, Kevin Hart (Snowball) being my favorite character and voice in the film.
The film doesn't have any hidden message, any moral teaching, or anything that will make it unforgettable regarding the visuals, the story, the idea behind the film, or the visual narrative. However, it is neither a pretentious film, or said differently, it does not pretend to be anything that is not an hour and a half of entertainment. And it does that perfectly well.
Notice -- one of the pound collection vans has an advertising of the movie Sing at the rear!