Shockingly different from the movie that I expected to see. "Frankly, disturbing." Alarming ...

Rating: 1/10 (18 July 2016)

Do NOT waste your time on this movie if you were taken in, as I was, by the "fluffy and happy weekend flick" treatment that is suggested by this movie's trailer and marketing blurb. All of that lasts for about ten minutes.
Almost immediately, this movie turns both "viciously dark" and "viciously VIOLENT." The protagonist dogs are ripped from their owners and thrust into the sewers at the hands of characters ... never mind that they are bunny-rabbits, cats, and so-forth ... that are both murderous(!) and violent. Don't mind your kid seeing a character about to be bitten by a snake, with a fang that's twice as high as he is? Sure...
This movie, for the majority of its tenure, seems to me to directly challenge whether it ought to be the first animated movie that is "Rated 'R.'" I frankly think it should be.
I, for one, don't want to see "catch-poles" being used on screen. I don't want to see kittens thrown against walls. I don't want to see New York Animal Control vans being thrown into accidents that Humans would not survive. (Three times!) I don't want to see animals being drowned, "except for their miraculous escape," Twice. I don't want to see City Buses careening down a New York bridge, knocking any number of cars to either side.
All in all, this movie **IS** **NOT** what I thought I was in for, "on an otherwise-pleasant Sunday afternoon."
And, I'll go on-record in saying that the rating of this movie ought to be re-evaluated, to determine if in fact it should be "Rated 'R.'"