Starring: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Steve Coogan, Ellie Kemper, Bobby Moynihan, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Jenny Slate, Albert Brooks
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Animated comedy directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney. The Secret Life of Pets (2016) follows Max (Louis C.K.), a pampered Manhattan apartment dog whose life is disrupted when his owner brings home Duke (Eric Stonestreet), a messy mongrel. Together, they must overcome their differences to thwart Snowball (Kevin Hart), a vengeful bunny leading an army of abandoned ex-pets called the “Flushed Pets”.
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Amusing The Secret Life of Pets Quotes
Max: [referring to his human owner, Katie] I’m Max and I’m the luckiest dog in New York, because of her.
Max: [after Katie has just left to go to work] Oh, I miss her so much.
Max: [suddenly Katie opens the front door] She’s back!
Katie: Forgot my phone!
Max: [as Katie leaves again] Oh, I miss her so much.
Gidget: Any plans today?
Max: Yes. Big, big stuff today, Gidget. I got big plans. I’m going to sit here and I’m going to wait for Katie to come back.
Gidget: Oh, that sounds exciting. Well, I won’t interrupt. I’ve got a very busy day too.
Max: [referring to Katie] She’s back!
Katie: Hey, Maximillian! I have some big news.
Katie: [opens the door to reveal her new dog, Duke] Max, this is Duke. He’s going to be your brother.
Max: Chloe! I got a bad situation. Katie brought home a psychopath from the pound! I don’t even have a bed now! I’m sleeping on the floor, like a dog! Why would Katie do this to me?
Chloe: Because she’s a dog person, Max. And dog people do weird, inexplicable things. Like they get dogs instead of cats.
Max: Okay, please don’t start now, Chloe. That is not helping.
Chloe: Max, come on. I’m your friend, okay. And as your friend, I got to be honest with you. I don’t care about you or your problems.
Duke: [as he slumps down on top of Max] This is my apartment now, and my new bed.
Max: [after Duke breaks the vase] Oh, Duke, Katie’s going to be so upset when she sees that. Katie’s going to flip out.
Duke: It’s just one vase.
Max: Is it, Duke? Is it?
Max: [suddenly he kicks out to break the vase on the coffee table] Ah, that’s a shame.
Gidget: [referring to Duke] Hi, Max. Who’s your new roommate?
Max: He’s going to be gone soon.
Tiberius: Okay. He’s too stupid to talk, and too ugly to eat.
Max: [as they are being taken away in an animal rescue truck] Katie’s going to be worried sick.
Duke: And we had a great thing going. I blame myself.
Max: Yeah, me too. I blame you a lot.
Snowball: [referring to cardboard on the wall with incoherent lines drawn on it] Look at my plans. It’s all laid out, right here.
Pop: [as Snowball does an evil laugh] That ball of fluff’s got a screw loose.
Animal Rescue Guy: Hey, you see that? Hey, there, cute little bunny.
Animal Rescue Guy: [suddenly Snowball attacks the delivery guy, beating him up] Save yourself!
Snowball: Shut it human! Let’s do this now!
Snowball: The revolution has begun! Liberated forever! Domesticated never!
Snowball: [to Max and Duke] I’m going to bust the both of you out of here, but from now on you work for me.
Snowball: [to Max and Duke] We have returned from the surface with two new recruits. Initiating time.
Max: I’m sorry. What time?
Snowball: [a massive snake looms down over them and flips out his poisonous fang] Who wants to go first?
Snowball: [starts laughing hard, loses control and rabbit droppings come out of him] Oh-Oh. Just ignore what just happened, okay? Yes!
Chloe: And, when that random cat tried to eat Sweet Pea, who saved him?
Buddy: It wasn’t a random cat. It was you.
Chloe: The identity of the random cat is not the point. We’re talking about who saved him!
Mel: Max did!
Snowball: [seeing Max on Duke on a ferry] They’re going to Brooklyn.
Tattoo: They say everyone’s going to Brooklyn these days. It’s making a real comeback.
Snowball: I’m not talking about hipster real estate trends. I’m talking about vengeance, Tattoo!
Snowball: Death’s coming to Brooklyn. And he’s got buck teeth and a cotton tail.
Snowball: Who are we? We are the Flushed Pets. Thrown away by our owners, and now we are out for revenge! It’s like a club, but with biting and scratching.
Buddy: How you been, old-timer?
Pop: Paralyzed!
Gidget: [after a moment of stunned silence] Great.
Pops: Now, if we take the human route, getting there is going to take days. You may have lots of time, but for me every breath is a cliffhanger. So, we got to take the secret route.
Chloe: [as they watch in horror as Pops falls down the pipe] Okay, the secret route was death.
Buddy: [entering the sewer] Ugh! What is that smell?
Pops: It’s poo-poo with a dash of caca.
Max: [to Duke] We can find our way home. We are descended from the mighty wolf! We’ve raw primal instincts. And our moments away from leading us home.
Snowball: I feel heroic, and a little wet, but I still look good. I look good.
Pops: This is Puffball, Squashface, Weiner Dog, Yellow Bird, Eagle Eye, Guinea Pig Joe. And of course my girlfriend, Rhonda.
This was a lot of fun. The bunny (Kevin Hart) was by far my favorite character. I thought all the other animals were good too, but the bunny made me laugh the most.
I think so too….he is by far most people’s favorite