Barked Up the Wrong Tree.

Rating: 4/10 (22 April 2017)

Though the script had some amazingly funny lines - like how these animated movies tend to have - the execution was too insufficient, and also, The Secret Life of Pets took it's licence to be "zany", way, way too far, to the point where the movie started losing its plot completely.
The cast was honestly a combination of highs and lows, that ultimately culminated into a sub par cast that couldn't deliver as well as the script deserved. I wasn't aware that Max was being voiced by Louis C.K., or that Snowball was voiced by Kevin Hart. These are 2 Hollywood stars who don't rank very high in my books, and without knowing that they were part of this cast, I could sense still, the shortcomings of both their characters.
The directing and direction this movie took was choppy, ridiculous, even for an animation about pets, and at points, boring, which would explain all the unnecessary turns taken in this film to keep it fresh perhaps. Even as a dog lover, I couldn't connect with any of the pets, and at no point did this film manage the "warm and fuzzy" effect.
A pig, lizard and bunny hijacking an incessant animal control duo, that appears everywhere and anywhere just at the right time - and not in that "meant to be funny kind of way", no, they're just Animal Control that just keeps popping up, going after 2 dogs ONLY, in ALL of New York City AND Brooklyn... Being hijacked by a pig, lizard and bunny!
An entire community of sewer strays, blocking The Brooklyn Bridge, after a bunny and a dog stole a bus... A friggin' bus. This is stupid because, this movie is set in a world where humans are not oblivious or ignorant to such and animals are expected and only known to behave like how animals realistically and normally behave, however, hey... A crocodile is getting a beat down from a little white fluffy Pomeranian on The Brooklyn Bridge, and not a single human finds this rather peculiar at least? OK.
All that aside however, what disappoints me the most about this film is its well written but at so many points, either badly executed or just shy of well executed, lines. The script deserved a better cast overall, and the directing/story, ultimately was a collapsing and an incomplete mess. 4.5/10.