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Although failure originality, Illumination proposal is fun and its theme, irresistible.

"It's a healthy film, funny and full of strongly magnetic visual dynamism."

An affable adventure with a strong voice cast. What it lacks in originality, it claws back with strong visual gags and a witty script.

Renaud dishes out some decent gags during the opening reels, especially when introducing us to the other pets in Max?s building.

The formula may be familiar, but the personalities are completely fresh, yielding a menagerie of loveable ? if downright ugly ? cartoon critters banding together to help these two incompatible roommates from ending up on the streets.

"As it progresses, The Secret Life Of Pets starts to overreach dramatically, and loses some of its charm in the process".

But for the most part, this is laser-targeted at younger cinema-goers, with its action sequences cued up one after the other, like a YouTube playlist.