“I grew up in Kansas and I had pigs and cows and dogs and cats, basically, my whole life. “I’ve seen the movie and it’s like a magical ride through New York City strapped to the back of a dog,” the actor says, with some authority. It all works for Stonestreet (ABC’s “Modern Family”), who makes his animated feature voice-acting debut in “Pets.” We worked to reinforce a very vertically oriented city, everything stretched much taller than it is in reality to increase the feeling of these little creatures that are lost in this big city.” ![]() ‘Despicable Me’ was kind of a made-up city and we wanted to really have some density and a romantic way to depict New York. “Also, we wanted to create a new version of New York City, which is something we haven’t really done before. “As far as execution goes, the animals’ fur, what the cat’s fur looked like versus the shaggy dog Duke’s, we were really into creating some distinction among the animals in the texture so they felt like their particular species while still being a stylized version of that animal,” the director continues. “In no small part because of social media, but in certain ways we view them, everything from dog whisperers to stores that specialize in nothing but items for your pet. “How they’re a part of our lives has changed a lot in the last 15, 20 years or so,” observes Renaud, whose household currently includes a Pomeranian puppy and the one survivor of six goldfish. That said, “Pets” has some realistic touches too, from its depiction of the city inspired by New Yorker magazine covers to a contemporary sense of how humans relate to their animal friends. Renaud served similar duties on Illumination’s “The Lorax” and both “Despicable Me” features, the first of which is the second highest-grossing animated film on record, worldwide, behind only Disney’s “Frozen.” The concept originated with Illumination’s boss Chris Meledandri, and the film was co-directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney. Organizing to rescue the dogs is a motley pack of their neighbors’ pets, which includes the lovelorn Pomeranian Gidget (Jenny Slate), disinterested fat cat Chloe (Lake Bell), dissing dachshund Buddy (Hannibal Buress), cagey old basset hound Pops (Dana Carvey) and helpful hawk - when he can control his urge to eat his comrades - Tiberius (Albert Brooks). Neither pooch likes the other one, but when they get lost in the city during a dogwalking incident, they have to work together to get back home before they’re impounded or worse.Ĭomplicating matters is a gang of abandoned and resentful ex-pets led by the people-hating fluffy white bunny Snowball (Kevin Hart). ![]() “Pets” charts the misadventures of a formerly happy New York City terrier named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) and the new big, sloppy brown dog Duke (Eric Stonestreet) his human mom (Ellie Kemper) disruptively brings home one day. (Not leaving anything to chance, “The Secret Life of Pets” will be preceded by a short feature starring the little yellow guys called “Mower Minons.”) The fifth animated feature from the house that Gru and his pill-shaped henchmen built, Illumination Entertainment, proposes that observing what our dogs, cats, birds and guinea pigs get up to while we’re not at home can be just as popular as the company’s “Despicable Me” series. That’s the question “The Secret Life of Pets” is about to answer. Do people love their animals as much as they love Minions?
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