

The opening moments of this sequel suggest that will be the focus, as Duke and Max assume the role of protective parents over the kid who's now old enough to crawl. Now, Duke and Max are getting used to Katie's husband Chuck and their newborn son Liam also being part of their home and world. Over the course of the first movie, Max adjusted to sharing his New York apartment and his owner Katie's affections with a large Newfoundland mix named Duke (voiced by Eric Stonestreet). Brian Lynch, one of the original Secret's three credited writers, returns on his own with not a really good story, but three okay ones with which to juggle here. In recent years, they've softened from their stance of only making a sequel if they had a really good story to tell. Though they've surrendered infallibility, Pixar remains the gold standard that most animation studios aspire to. Fellow stand-up icon and middle-aged guy Patton Oswalt takes over, picking up his most significant voice acting gig since Pixar's Ratatouille. The lead role of protagonist and narrator Max, a Jack Russell Terrier, has been recast, following the fallout of Louis C.K.'s misconduct scandal made public in late 2017. The Secret Life of Pets 2 opens tomorrow, three years after its predecessor. Naturally, the question about a sequel wasn't "if" but "when" and now we have our answer. That summer 2016 release inched past Despicable Me 2 at the box officeĪnd was no slouch internationally, finishing not far from the billion or so grossed worldwide by Minions and Despicable Me 3. The thing everyone immediately associates with Illumination are the Minions of Despicable Me, but actually the studio's highest-grossing film domestically is The Secret Life of Pets.
