


That's here, although it's a fairly small part of the story, figuring in only at the beginning and the end. Helping out are some other pooches, Mel (Bobby Moynihan) and Buddy (Hannibal Buress), a cat named Chloe (Lake Bell), and a predatory bird, Tiberius (Albert Brooks).Įarly ads emphasized the idea that The Secret Life of Pets would be a comic fantasy about what our animal friends do when we're not home. They encounter an evil bunny named Snowball (Kevin Hart), who oversees a vicious gang of abandoned pets and harbors a grudge against all "domestics." Meanwhile, the little lapdog Gidget (Jenny Slate), who's in love with Max, launches a mission to find him once she realizes he's not home. In the process, both dogs get loose in the city. Seeing him as competition for Katie's affection, Max conspires to get rid of the intruder. One day, Katie brings home a new pooch, a large and hairy stray named Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Louis CK provides the voice of Max, a little dog living in NYC with his beloved owner Katie (Ellie Kemper). That can be a little disconcerting at times, but like Pixar's first full-length feature, Pets is a lot of fun, which makes it easy to forgive the fact that it rather shamelessly co-opts a classic. It's the exact same story, but with differing breeds of dogs substituting for a cowboy doll and a spaceman action figure. The Secret Life of Pets is Toy Story with animals.
