I am, however, surprised that one of the animals said pissed in a PG-rated family movie. These jokes will surely appeal to kids like the many children who attended my morning showtime, but I can’t say the same about adults who will, at best, chuckle at some of the jokes. In fact, the end credits include clips of YouTube videos with dogs and kids, which is obviously where much of the humor originated from. Speaking of kids, the jokes in The Secret Life of Pets 2 are similar to the original in that they mostly rely on dumb slapstick and animalistic cuteness. Did Katie think that Max finally stopped scratching or are her and Chuck simply oblivious to their dogs’ actions? These glaring continuity errors may not bother a kid, but they did bother me.
Later in the film, Rooster frees Max of this cone but neither Katie nor her husband Chuck (Pete Holmes) seems to notice. For example, Max has a cone placed around his neck at the vet because he keeps scratching himself.
The writing isn’t much better or even more consistent. Even worse, they all come together for a finale that feels so stupid and slapdash. This would’ve worked better as a series of isolated TV shorts rather than cramming three not-so-great stories into an eighty-six-minute movie runtime. None of these stories are particularly special and the constant shifting between all three as the movie progresses doesn’t help. And the third revolves around the white bunny Snowball (Kevin Hart), who this time is a superhero, and is asked by a Shih Tzu named Daisy (Tiffany Haddish) to save a helpless tiger named Hu from her abusive Russian circus owner Sergei (Nick Kroll).
The second sees Max’s friend/neighbor Gidget (Jenny Slate) loses Max’s favorite chew toy in the crazy cat lady’s apartment, so her cat friend Chloe (Lake Bell) teaches her how to be a cat. The first story involves Max and his much bigger brother Duke (Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family fame) go with their family to a farm where Max butts heads with the farm’s stern sheepdog Rooster (Harrison Ford). Most people will think this is the movie’s focus, only for it to forget that relationship after five minutes in favor of three intersecting Pulp Fiction -like storylines , as pointed out by the YouTube channel Double Toasted. It begins with the main dog Max (Patton Oswalt) narrating about how his owner Katie is married and has a child who Max grows to love and protect. I usually don’t talk about writing until the end of my reviews, but I have to talk about the writing of this movie because the story of Secret Life of Pets 2 takes a different approach from its predecessor.
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