The Secret Lives of Pets

Rating: 240 Degrees (out of 360)

Before I dig in, I must confess, my 2 kids loved this movie.  They are young, so a sign of a good movie for them is that they don't wander up and down the isle staring at others watching the movie.

​So, even though they loved it, I found the movie to be a bit formulaic.  The plot and jokes were a bit predictable.  The animation style is easily as good as todays standard well animated TV shows.  I found the lack of "realism" to be too cartoonish given the relatively realistic animation.  So, when I watch the Looney Tunes, the animation style is as goofy as the laws of physics, but in this movie the animation set up a fairly real tone, but then had Looney Tune physics and this was distracting.

​I do have a bit of a bias though.  Our family dog is a cute Basset Hound named Buckles, so this connection help me fall in and enjoy elements of the movie. 

​Overall, good entertainment for the kiddos, but fairly weak and predictable for us adults.  Definitely just rent it or better yet borrow it from a friend whos kid suckered them into buying it.