Setting expectations very high with the endearing trailers, The Secret Life Of Pets partly delivers. The hugely successful opening, largely reflected in the trailers and showing what pets get up to when their owners are away during the day, becomes disappointingly under-exploited as the film gives way to a more humdrum mid-section of 'getting lost in the city' and 'trying to find a way home' that is very reminiscent of Aardman's Flushed Away and trying hard to have the heart of a Pixar film but not quite getting there. Nevertheless, there are plenty of good gags and effective slapstick, the film looks and sounds absolutely beautiful - a gleaming vision of an sunny autumnal candy-coloured New York, set to a retro-easy soundtrack - and the ending will put a smile on anyone's face.
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