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The Secret Life of Pets
File:The Secret Life of Pets poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChris Renaud
Written by
  • Brian Lynch[1]
  • Cinco Paul
  • Ken Daurio[1]
Produced by
  • Chris Meledandri[2]
  • Janet Healy[2]
Starring
  • Louis C.K.
  • Eric Stonestreet
  • Kevin Hart
  • Jenny Slate
  • Ellie Kemper
  • Lake Bell
  • Dana Carvey
  • Hannibal Buress
  • Bobby Moynihan
  • Steve Coogan
  • Albert Brooks
Edited byKen Schretzmann
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • June 16, 2016 (2016-06-16) (AIAFF)
  • July 8, 2016 (2016-07-08) (United States)
Running time
86 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[4]
Box office$875.4 million[4]


The Secret Life of Pets is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment. It is directed by Chris Renaud, co-directed by Yarrow Cheney, written by Brian Lynch, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio[5][1] and is the first film of the franchise of the same name. The voice cast stars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Jenny Slate, and Albert Brooks.

The Secret Life of Pets premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2016, and was released in theaters in the United States on July 8, 2016, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $875 million worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2016, and was the year's most profitable release.

A sequel, The Secret Life of Pets 2, was released on June 7, 2019[6] with Patton Oswalt taking the role of Max from Louis C.K.

Plot[]

A pampered Jack Russell Terrier named Max lives with his owner Katie in a Manhattan apartment. While Katie is at work during the day, Max hangs out with other pets in the building: tabby cat Chloe, pug Mel, dachshund Buddy, and budgerigar Sweet Pea. One day, Katie adopts Duke, a large Newfoundland mix from the pound, leaving Max jealous because of her divided focus on Duke. Enraged by Max's attitude towards him, Duke tries to abandon Max in an alley, but they are both attacked by cats led by Sphynx cat Ozone who steals both dogs' collars and leaves them to be caught by Animal Control. Duke fears that he will be killed if he goes back to the pound. When Gidget, a white Pomeranian who has a crush on Max, discovers that he is missing, she decides to find him.

After the van crashes in an alleyway, Max and Duke are rescued by a white rabbit named Snowball, the leader of "The Flushed Pets"—a cult of feral sewer-dwelling animals who hate humans because their owners mistreated and abandoned them. After Max and Duke pretend to despise humans as much as they do by saying they killed their owners, the Flushed Pets invite them to join. Snowball states that they have to get a snakebite from a one-fanged viper as a test, but the alley cats barge in and inform Snowball that Max and Duke are still pets. Their cover blown, the two dogs escape the sewers and board a ferry to Brooklyn, inadvertently killing the viper in the process. Snowball vows vengeance to kill them and leads the Flushed Pets after them.

Meanwhile, Gidget befriends a red-tailed hawk named Tiberius to find Max, and soon locates Ozone, whom Gidget coerces into telling what he knows about the dogs. They then enlist Mel, Buddy, Chloe, guinea pig Norman and Sweet Pea. On the way, they meet Pops, an old Basset Hound who helps Gidget and the pets find Max. Gidget and her team encounter Snowball, who vows to kill them as well, and Norman is captured as the rest of Gidget's team flees.

In the meantime, Max and Duke raid a sausage factory for food. While there, Duke tells Max about his previous owner, Fred, an elderly man who adopted him as a puppy and loved spending time with him. One day, Duke got lost while chasing a butterfly and was caught by Animal Control, but Fred never came to claim him. Max convinces him to visit Fred's house in a nearby neighborhood, confident Fred will still love him and take him back. When they arrive at Fred's house, they learn from the resident cat Reginald that Fred has died. Heartbroken, Duke accuses Max of attempting to get rid of him and barks at the new homeowners who have just returned to the house and called Animal Control. The handlers catch Max, but Duke interferes long enough for Max to escape and ends up being captured instead.

While trying to rescue Duke as he follows the Animal Control van, Max is attacked by Snowball who tries to kill him. However, when his gang is captured, Snowball realizes that he and Max must work together to rescue them. They drive a city bus into the van on the Brooklyn Bridge, stopping traffic. The Flushed Pets encircle Max, unaware of his partnership with Snowball, who is currently unconscious, but Gidget and her team save him. Upon seeing Gidget using her kung-fu fighting skills, Max starts to fall in love with her. The van gets stuck in scaffolding and the Flushed Pets escape. As soon as Max gets the keys to Duke's cage, the van plummets into the East River with him inside. Max is unable to free Duke, so Snowball jumps into the river to retrieve the keys, allowing them to escape the sinking van.

The entire group returns to the apartment block by pig-driven taxi. Max expresses his love for Gidget, who returns his affection. Snowball and the Flushed Pets then come up with a new plan to annihilate all humans, but a woman and her daughter named Molly arrives and adopts Snowball and the remaining Flushed Pets return to the sewers. At first, Snowball resists, but gives in and lets himself become a domesticated pet once again. Snowball soon goes home with Molly and her mother while the other pets return to their homes and embrace their owners, and Max and Duke finally reunite with Katie, sparking a true friendship as brothers.

In a mid-credits scene, Buddy and Mel show up in costume at a party in poodle Leonard's apartment, hosted by a now-friendlier Snowball.

Cast[]

  • Louis C.K. as Max, a Jack Russell Terrier.[7]
  • Eric Stonestreet as Duke, a large, brown, shaggy Newfoundland mix.[7]
  • Kevin Hart as Snowball, a white rabbit.[7]
  • Jenny Slate as Gidget, a white Pomeranian.
  • Ellie Kemper as Katie, Max and Duke's owner.[2][8]
  • Lake Bell as Chloe, a morbidly obese and apathetic grey tabby cat.[8]
  • Dana Carvey as Pops, an elderly Basset Hound who is paralyzed in his back legs.[9]
  • Hannibal Buress as Buddy, a laid-back dachshund.[8][10]
  • Bobby Moynihan as Mel, a hyperactive pug.
  • Tara Strong as Sweetpea, a green and yellow budgie parakeet.
  • Steve Coogan as Ozone, a Cockney-accented Sphynx cat.
    • Coogan also voices Reginald, a Himalayan cat residing in Brooklyn.
  • Albert Brooks as Tiberius, a curmudgeonly red-tailed hawk.[8][10]
  • Chris Renaud as Norman, a guinea pig who keeps getting lost trying to find his apartment.
  • Michael Beattie as Tattoo, a slow-witted tattooed pig who is one of the Flushed Pets.
  • Sandra Echeverría as Maria, a character from the La Pasión de la Pasión telenovela that Gidget watches.
  • Jaime Camil as Fernando, a character from the La Pasión de la Pasión telenovela that Gidget watches.
  • Kiely Renaud as Molly, a little girl who adopts Snowball.

Production[]

Renaud first became involved with the project in 2012, while he was still working on Despicable Me 2.[11] At that time, Illumination's CEO Chris Meledandri pitched him an idea on a film about what pets do when their caretakers are away.[11] While Renaud found the premise interesting he and his team did not know what form the story would take, with them at one point considering making it a murder mystery, before deciding to make something "that was a bit more relatable" [12]

The team used Jean-Jacques Sempé as an influence in designing the environment and attention was specifically paid to keep the designs "very vertically oriented"[11] In keeping with the tradition of old WB cartoons, the owners' faces are only occasionally seen.[11] The home of the Flushed Pets was created to "hint at the darker side" of pet ownership "without, hopefully, getting too heavy.[11] as well as to explore "this whole mythology in New York of the world that’s unseen, " while still maintaining the pet theme.[11] The animation was created entirely in France by Illumination Mac Guff.[13]

Music[]

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The Secret Life of Pets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by
ReleasedJuly 1, 2016 (2016-07-01)
Recorded2016
Genre
Length51:31
LabelBack Lot Music
ProducerDominique Lemonnier
Alexandre Desplat soundtrack chronology
Florence Foster Jenkins
(2016)
The Secret Life of Pets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
(2016)
The Light Between Oceans
(2016)

The original score for the film was composed by Alexandre Desplat.[14] The soundtrack was released on July 1, 2016 by Back Lot Music.[15] All songs listed were composed by Desplat except "We Go Together".

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Meet the Pets"2:37
2."Katie's Leaving"0:55
3."Meet Duke"3:36
4."Fetch Me a Stick"3:09
5."Telenovela Squirrels"1:24
6."Hijack!"2:00
7."Gidget Meets Tiberius"4:56
8."Initiation Time"1:01
9."Rooftop Route"1:27
10."The Viper"1:49
11."You Have an Owner?"3:04
12."Good Morning Max"1:21
13."Sewer Chase"1:09
14."Who's With Me?"1:21
15."Me Like What Me See"0:54
16."Traveling Bossa"1:56
17."Flushed Out To Brooklyn"2:47
18."Sausages!"1:13
19."Duke's Old House / Captured"3:03
20."Brooklyn Bridge Showdown"2:34
21."Rescuing Duke"2:46
22."Wet But Handsome / Blue Taxi"1:24
23."Max and Gidget"1:36
24."Welcome Home"1:57
25."We Go Together" (originally from Grease)1:24
Total length:51:31

Release[]

The film was originally scheduled to be released on February 12, 2016, but was pushed back to July 8, 2016.[1] It was released in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D using DMR.[16][better source needed] The Secret Life of Pets premiered at the 2016 Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 16, 2016, and was screened at VidCon.[17] The film is accompanied by a Despicable Me short film entitled Mower Minions.

Marketing[]

Home media[]

The Secret Life of Pets was released on Digital HD on November 22, 2016, and on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Ultra HD Blu-ray, and DVD on December 6, 2016. In addition to the short film Mower Minions which was released theatrically with the feature film, the releases also include two short films: Norman Television and Weenie.[18]

Reception[]

Box office[]

The Secret Life of Pets grossed $368.4 million in Canada and the U.S. and $507.1 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $875.5 million against a production budget of $75 million.[4] Its international takings helped push Universal Pictures [International] past $1 billion for the tenth consecutive year[19] and aided Illumination Entertainment to pass the $4 billion mark for the first time since 2010.[20]

It is the fifth-highest-grossing original worldwide film of all time (behind Avatar, Zootopia, The Lion King, and Finding Nemo),[21] the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2016,[22] and the 17th-highest-grossing animated film of all time. Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $374.6 million when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film, making it the most profitable release of 2016.[23]

North America[]

In Canada and the United States, the film was projected to gross around $70 million in its opening weekend with some predictions going as high as $100 million.[24][25][26] It received the widest release for an animated film as well as for a PG-rated film (breaking Shrek Forever After's record) and the seventh-widest of all time overall across 4,370 theaters, the widest release since The Dark Knight Rises.[25][27][28][29] It made $5.3 million from Thursday night previews in 3,009 theaters which is the second-biggest of all time for Illumination behind only Minions ($6.2 million), and the third biggest of all time for an animated film behind Finding Dory ($9.2 million) and Minions.[26][30] This was followed by a record-breaking $38.5 million opening day gross (including previews), the biggest for an original film.[31][32] In its opening weekend, it exceeded expectations and grossed $104.4 million, finishing first at the box office.[33] Its debut is the sixth-biggest for an animated film, the sixth highest weekend debut in July, and the fourth-biggest opening weekend for Universal Pictures.[34] It also set the record for the largest opening for an original animated film, eclipsing the $90.4 million debut of Inside Out.[35][36]

In its second weekend, the film made $50.8 million (-51.3%) while maintaining the top spot, despite facing stiff competition with newcomer Ghostbusters.[37] Although it slipped into second place when overtaken by Star Trek Beyond in its third weekend, it was still able to fend off the two other new releases—Lights Out and Ice Age: Collision Course—by earning another $29.6 million.[38] It passed $300 million on its twenty-sixth day—the same day it crossed $400 million worldwide[39]—becoming the seventh film of 2016,[40] the seventh Universal Pictures film (the first for the year),[41] and the twelfth animated film overall to reach the benchmark.[42]

Outside North America[]

Internationally, The Secret Life of Pets received a scattered release from June to September in a total of 69 markets, and faced competition from other animated films such as Finding Dory and Ice Age: Collision Course in the course of its release.[43][44][45] In total, it had number-one openings in 45 markets and recorded the biggest opening for an original animated film in 17 territories, and the No. 1 animated film of 2016 to date in 13 markets.[20][46] It topped the international box office in its ninth weekend after earning $43.8 million in 53 markets (dethroning Suicide Squad).[47] However, this wasn't the film's biggest single weekend gross. Its biggest weekend gross was actually in its seventh weekend when it grossed $69.3 million. It opened at No. 3 behind Suicide Squad ($133.3 million) and the Chinese film Time Raiders ($64.6 million) that weekend.[48]

It was released in the United Kingdom and Norway two weeks ahead of its U.S. release, where it grossed a combined total of $14.1 million in the two markets.[43] Prior to its official debut in the UK and the Republic of Ireland on June 24, the film had two days' worth of previews on June 18 and 19 from which it made £3.63 million ($5.2 million) in two days. This figure was later counted in the film's official opening weekend.[49] It went on to score the fourth-biggest original animation opening weekend ever there, with £9.58 million ($13.4 million) from 592 theaters, trailing behind Inside Out, Monsters, Inc., and Up. Excluding previews, its total three-day opening was $8.1 million.[50][51] This was amidst Brexit and despite facing competition from Independence Day: Resurgence.[43][52] The film held off extremely well in its second and third weekend falling just 20% and 24%, earning £4.47 million ($6.1 million) and £3.62 million ($4.8 million) respectively despite facing some competitions.[53][54] It has topped the box office for three consecutive weekends and has grossed total of $41 million there.[55] In Norway, it took the number one spot as well, with $778,000.[43] It scored the biggest animation opening of 2016 and the second-biggest of all time overall in both Taiwan ($2 million)—behind Madagascar, and Hong Kong ($1.9 million)—behind Inside Out.[44]

In Argentina, the film had a record-breaking number-one debut with $4 million from 195 screens—the biggest opening weekend ever for an animated film and the second-biggest opening ever for any film (behind Furious 7). Similarly, Chile also recorded the second-biggest animated opening ever with $1.7 million (behind Minions). Colombia also opened at No. 1 with a huge $1.5 million.[56] In Mexico, other than opening at No. 1, it posted the biggest original animated opening of all time with $7.6 million, surpassing the studio's own previous record holder Inside Out.[45] Also in Russia, it scored the biggest original animated opening and the second-biggest ever for an animated film behind Minions with $16.3 million, although this included $6.4 million five days' worth of previews.[47] It went on to become the highest-grossing film of the summer that year.[57] In Japan, the film opened on August 11—the date of Japan's first Mountain Day national holiday—with Toho-Towa distributing, and earned $4.6 million on 370,000 admissions for its two-day opening weekend dethroning Shin Godzilla off the top spot. The cumulative total for the four-day holiday (August 11–14) was $9.7 million.[19][58] Similarly, it had number-one debuts in Germany ($7.1 million), France ($5.9 million), Australia ($5.6 million), Italy ($5.1 million), Brazil ($4.4 million), Spain ($4.5 million), Poland ($1.7 million), Singapore ($1.3 million), Belgium ($1.2 million), Denmark ($1.2 million), Indonesia ($1.1 million), the Philippines ($1 million), and South Africa ($463,000). In Germany, it scored the best animation opening since Minions.[45][59][60][61][62][63][64][65] It topped the box office in Israel for five straight weekends and in Australia, Russia and Spain for three weekends.[45][47][61][63] In Japan, the film was the highest-grossing foreign release of the weekend, holding the top spot for four consecutive weekends.[60]

In China—the world's second-biggest film market—the film opened on a Tuesday, earning a modest $5.2 million on its opening day. To Sunday, it achieved a six-day opening of $29.3 million and $15.5 million for the weekend alone (Friday to Sunday), with per screen averages over $500 per screen per day. In both instances, it was behind the local film Time Raiders.[59][66][67] In South Korea, despite debuting in fifth place, it had an opening of $6.9 million.[59] Elsewhere, it grossed $2.7 million in the Netherlands, $1.2 million in Sweden and in Hungary, it scored the biggest opening of the year with $738,000,[59] and also in Portugal ($965,000), Latvia ($224,000),[47] and South Africa.[64]

In terms of total earnings, its biggest markets are China ($58 million), United Kingdom and Ireland ($47.2 million), Japan ($41.6 million) and Russia ($34.2 million).[19][47][68] It became the third-highest-grossing film of all time in Russia (behind Avatar and Zootopia)[61] and the highest-grossing film of 2016 in Spain.[20][62]

Critical response[]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 73% based on 230 reviews with an average rating of 6.27/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Fast-paced, funny, and blessed with a talented voice cast, The Secret Life of Pets offers a beautifully animated, cheerfully undemanding family-friendly diversion."[69] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 61 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[70] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.[71]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three out of four stars and called it "an animated fluffball—a sort of Toy Story with pets does everything to drive you crazy and ends up being totally irresistible."[72] Scott Tobias, writing for NPR, characterized the film's concept as "Toy Story but with house pets," highlighting the film's "thinly distinguished characters" and "gloppy sentimentality."[73] Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film three out of four stars and said "In much the same way that the smash Zootopia demonstrated that creatures of different culture and class and species are better off when they come together, The Secret Life of Pets is a testament to teamwork and friendship and fixing the rifts that divide us. Let the fur—and the warm, fuzzy feelings—fly."[74]

Some critics disliked the film's similarities to Pixar's Toy Story.[75] Matthew Parkinson of The Escapist compared the plots of both films and wrote that "The Secret Life of Pets feels like one of those hour-long ripoffs you'd see on a children's television network."[76] Ethan Anderton of the website /Film criticised the film's characterisation, and noted that the relationship between Max and Duke was akin to "Woody and Buzz Lightyear all over again."[77]

Accolades[]

List of awards and nominations
Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Ref.
Annie Awards February 4, 2017 Outstanding Achievement, Character Design in an Animated Feature Production Eric Guillon Nominated [78]
Outstanding Achievement, Music in an Animated Feature Production Alexandre Desplat
British Academy Children's Awards November 20, 2016 BAFTA Kids' Vote The Secret Life of Pets [79][80]
Cinema Audio Society February 18, 2017 Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion Picture – Animated David Acord, Jason Butler, Gary A. Rizzo, Carlos Sotolongo and Frank Wolf [81]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 17, 2016 Best Original Score – Animated Film Alexandre Desplat Won [82][83]
International Film Music Critics Association February 21, 2017 Best Original Score for a Comedy Film Nominated [84]
2017 Kids' Choice Awards March 11, 2017 Favorite Animated Movie The Secret Life of Pets [85]
Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie Kevin Hart
Favorite Villain Won
Most Wanted Pet
NAACP Image Awards February 11, 2017 Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance Nominated [86]
People's Choice Awards January 18, 2017 Favorite Family Movie The Secret Life of Pets [87]
Favorite Animated Movie Voice Kevin Hart
Producers Guild of America January 28, 2017 Best Animated Motion Picture Janet Healy and Chris Meledandri [88]

Sequel[]

In August 2016, it was announced that there would be a sequel with director Chris Renaud, producers Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, and writer Brian Lynch; the film was released on June 7, 2019.[6] Louis C.K. was replaced by Patton Oswalt.[89]

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