{"id":17115,"date":"2016-08-14T00:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T04:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2016-08-14T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:46:16","slug":"my-not-so-secret-review-of-the-secret-life-of-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/my-not-so-secret-review-of-the-secret-life-of-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"My Not So Secret Review of the Secret Life of Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"typewriter\"<\/a>First off, Dan and I rarely go to the movies. On Oscar night, we could watch the entire show and say to ourselves we didn\u2019t see a single movie nominated for an award. So, when we decided to see the widely publicized Secret Life of Pets<\/a>, I was excited to say the least. And just so you know, when I go to the movies, I\u2019m the kind of person that doesn\u2019t read reviews, preferring to appreciate the movie on its own merits without prior judgement. Quite frankly, I\u2019m just happy to be out, so I tend to enjoy a movie for the sake of a nice evening with Dan, rather than critiquing and pulling it apart.<\/p>\n

That said, much to my regret, because I really didn\u2019t want to feel this way – I mean, come on – a movie starring cute pets – I was completely disappointed. I tried, I really did. I wanted to bond with all the cats, dog, bunnies, birds, fish, and more, but they gave me very little to work with. I wanted nuance. You know, all those quirky habits that our pets have, in my case, cats, that every pet guardian can relate to. Honestly, just the process of being woken up by Peanut at 5:00 in the morning with her paws tapping at my face for a straight half hour, me stumbling to the kitchen after I wake up and stepping on a landmine of plush toys Zee has left on the floor, and trying to feed seven hungry cats who keep jumping up onto the counter while I keep putting them back down, is enough nuance for a full-screen movie.<\/p>\n

Simon, of the Simon\u2019s Cat videos<\/a>, is nuance at its brilliant best. I could watch those simply drawn videos a hundred times over, and they always make laugh. He “gets” cat.<\/em> Instead, we got a wild goose chase of assorted pets, down a sewer, led by an angry bunny, to avenge all the humans of the world that have done wrong by them.\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t mind the bunny being angry, but they made him so over the top angry that it was ludicrous. We get it bunny, you\u2019re a tough guy. But\u00a0honesty, it’s probably just me. I know a lot of people really enjoyed the movie. Some of it might perhaps be me showing my\u00a0age. I was brought up in a time when cartoon movies were cartoon movies. Some of my classic Disney favorites\u2014The Aristocats<\/a> and 101 Dalmatians<\/a>\u2014those movies will forever stay with me. They were amateurish by\u00a0today\u2019s standards, but to me, they\u00a0captured every scene perfectly, bringing these classic cartoon characters to life.<\/p>\n