![]() Soon after, the whole family, along with Max and Duke, take a trip to an uncle’s farm. ![]() Katie even takes Max to the vet, where he is fitted with a cone so he can’t scratch his face anymore. So protective, in fact, that Max becomes neurotic about every perceived danger on the New York streets. Max doesn’t object to Liam’s arrival, instead becoming fiercely protective of his new little person. This time, Max’s singleton owner Katie (voiced by Ellie Kemper) has found a guy, Chuck (voiced by Pete Holmes), and together they have a baby boy, Liam. ![]() Where in the first movie Max (now voiced by Patton Oswalt, replacing the disgraced Louis C.K.) fretted over the arrival of a new dog, the Newfoundland Duke (voiced by Eric Stonestreet). The main plot focuses, as the first movie’s did, on Max, a neurotic Jack Russell Terrier. TV would be a better fit for these characters, one that doesn’t raise the high expectations of a theatrical feature. That sequence, one of three plots intertwined in this labored sequel to the 2016 cartoon by the “Despicable Me” squad, could have been a nicely self-contained 11 minutes in an animated TV series - something “The Secret Life of Pets” seems destined to become. Gidget shows herself the mistress of the cat world by conquering the cats’ obsession: The laser pointer. ![]() It comes when the pampered Gidget (voiced by Jenny Slate) disguises herself as a cat to infiltrate an apartment filled with felines. There actually is a scene that shows dogs as superior to cats. That’s not the only reason I dislike “The Secret Life of Pets 2,” though it’s a good place to start. Let’s get my bias out of the way immediately: I am a cat person, and have been irked by animated movies that depict cats as sinister and automatically inferior to dogs.
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