It starts in a lovely way, in an adorable way, when you meet Max and his human Katie, and learn how happy they are together and how much they love each other. You also meet other animals: other dogs, a cat, a bird, a guinea pig.. I wished they hadn’t made the cat so fat, in animated movies cats are always dangerously fat or dangerously thin..
The scene when the dogs went all crazy after a little ball, and the cat looked at them as thinking “silly dogs” but then she saw a light on the floor and started jumping at it, it was adorable, and so true :lol:
One night Katie brings home a new dog, Duke, a rescue dog, and Max is jealous.
Troubles start, slow at first, with Duke taking Max’ bed, and getting angry when he hears that Max wants him out of the house; Duke eats his food too, and Max retaliate blackmailing him: he has to do everything Max says or Max will make so many troubles in the house that Katie will send Duke away, thinking it was him. Angry at this, while at the park with a dog-sitter, Duke takes Max far away where they meet a lot of street cats who take away their collars, so they’re taken for stray dogs and captured by god-catchers.
Now the craziness starts: the van is attacked by a rabbit, a pig and a chameleon. They free another dog, and to be freed Max and Duke tell them that they hate humans too and even killed one. The bunny is the leader of a gang of animals living in the sewers after being abandoned by their owners. Believing that they killed their owner, the bunny takes them along; when they are confronted by Viper, a huge, half-blind, one-toothed snake about to bite them, Duke fights and Viper is accidentally killed. Duke and Max escape but the bunny and his gang want revenge.
Gidget, a cute female dog secretly in love with Max, seeing that he didn’t come back with the others - because the dog-sitter didn’t even notice he was two dogs short - wants to find him, and becomes friends with a hawk living on the roof. She also asks the help of other animals that are Max’ friends and together they search for him. They too have to escape the bunny’s gang.
Max and Duke find themselves far away, feed themselves entering a sausage-factory, try to find Duke’s old home, only to find out that his old owner died, and are again found by the dog-catchers who trap Max. Duke saves him but is captured in his place. Max follows the van, and when the pig is captured too, he joins forces with the bunny. When the van falls down on the bridge, Max goes in to save Duke but loses the keys. The bunny dives into the water to bring them the keys, so they all get to safety. The pig comes driving a taxi to bring everybody home.
Max and Duke, along with all their friends, go back to their homes where the owners come back finding them waiting as if nothing had happened.
The bunny is seen by a little girl who hugs him and takes him home, and despite all his words of hate and revenge, he’s not fighting back anymore, and lets her take him.
Max and Duke are at peace now, and live happily together with Katie.
Now, it was a nice movie, specially if you love animals, because it was nice to see that every animal had its own personality, and it was adorable to see them acting like real pets, and the cat’s lines were funny - the “never mind the random cat identity” was hilarious; also New York was very well rendered in my opinion of someone not-at-all expert on New York.
I think it was very well done, I simply wish it had been based on more normal animal stuff instead of creating the usual absurd adventures.
The poodle who loves hard-rock was also adorable :-p
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