Movie Reviews: The Secret Life of Pets, Elvis & Nixon, Independence Day: Resurgence

Owing a significant debt to the Toy Story movies, The Secret Life of Pets (G) is an animated adventure in which a host of New York pets come together to form their own community as soon as their owners’ backs are turned.

Max (voiced by Louis CK) is an apartment-living terrier whose nose is put out of joint when his owner brings home a shaggy rescue dog, Duke (Eric Stonestreet).

In attempting to get rid of Duke during walkies, mild-mannered Max tangles with Snowball (Kevin Hart), a cute bunny who leads the Flushed Pets — a sewer-dwelling gang of abandoned animals waging war for pet liberation. Lost on the mean streets, pursued by the Flushed Pets and the dog catchers of Animal Control, Max and Duke must join forces to find their way home…