“First and foremost, (the movie) is the celebration of the love we have for them and definitely the overwhelming love they have for us,” he says. Animators tried to re-create the movement and attitude of actual pets instead of attaching human traits to cartoon animal bodies.īryan Lynch, who co-wrote the movie with Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and often types with one of his two dogs on his lap, hopes this attention to detail helps give a realistic feel to the characters and inspires viewers to love their animals just a little more - or rescue one. They also brought dogs into the studio to study the rapport between large and small breeds. To fill the movie with moments pet lovers would relate to, the creative team first spent hours talking over personal animal experiences and collected anecdotes from friends and family to include in the story. “Whether it’s not understanding time or numbers, or how they always, particularly in the case of a dog when you leave just for a minute, you come back and they’re so excited to see you, it’s like you’ve been gone five years.” “We tried to be very true to who they are, maybe how they see the world,” Renaud says. The story is told from the pets’ perspective with characters that should feel familiar and authentic to pet lovers, says Renaud, who has always lived with a dog, cat, guinea pig or fish, and who recently acquired Mimi, a Pomeranian puppy. Although Max would prefer to remain an only child, the two dogs must unite to survive the dangerous city and defeat The Flushed Pets, a gang of abandoned animals who live in the sewers and plot revenge against happy pets and their owners. “He’s going to be your brother!” Katie enthuses as she introduces the two. Max considers himself “the luckiest dog in New York” until his owner, Katie (Ellie Kemper, Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), comes home with a slobbering, enormous and overbearing rescue dog named Duke (Eric Stonestreet, ABC’s Modern Family). The movie stars Max, a devoted terrier mix, voiced by comedian Louis C.K. “And heck, there’s a lot of single adults and couples that own pets that don’t even have kids that this will appeal to.” “Obviously, the adults in the household love their pets as much as the kids,” says Chris Renaud ( Despicable Me, The Lorax, Despicable Me 2), who directs the film with co-director Yarrow Cheney. The movie’s clever trailers have attracted more than 36 million views, a fact filmmakers believe shows broad appeal and the potential to reach beyond the children’s market to the 65 percent of U.S. “But the reason I think it’s a good idea for a movie is because I don’t think I’m the only one that thinks that way.” “This notion of what your pet is doing when you’re not home is something that’s been kicking around my head for years,” says Meledandri, founder and CEO of Illumination Entertainment, the production company for The Secret Life of Pets. The movie opens July 8 with a pet’s-eye view of what they really do when we’re not looking. That question led film producer Chris Meledandri to develop The Secret Life of Pets, the fifth animated feature from the creators of the hit Despicable Me franchise. When you come home, he’s snoring on top of the kitchen table.īut what happened during the hours in between? As you close the door to leave the house, your dog makes sad puppy eyes, silently willing you to return.
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