Unnecessarily violent, not at all what I expected

Rating: 3/10 (23 July 2016)

The animation is beautiful. The trailer was funny. Unfortunately, the actual movie is pretty dark and rather violent.
I expected a lighthearted kids' movie full of furry animals and silly shenanigans, but that's not what the creators decided to do with this one.
**Possible spoilers** The fact that the villains in the movie are a gang of unwanted ex-pets is depressing, to say the least. The main character is introduced to his adopted "brother" early in the film and immediately tries to get him returned to the pound. There are so many emotions that good animators can express with their characters, why go almost completely with negative ones? The movie fails the Bechdel test (the female characters only exist to support the male ones), and there is a scene where characters are asked to describe "in gruesome detail" their alleged killing of their owners. Seriously?? This is not a movie I would take any child to see now that I know what it is.
Disappointing. You can do better than this, animators.