The Gang’s All Here in “The Secret Life of Pets 2”

Max, Snowball, and Gidget are back to shake things up and explain what really goes down when you leave your pets home alone in The Secret Life of Pets 2. It’s the follow-up to the 2016 smash hit The Secret Life of Pets. This time around our fuzzy friends are dealing with changing relationships, embracing change, and pulling off a high-stakes rescue just a few short years after the events of the first film. Katie, Max and Duke’s owner, is now married with a precocious toddler named Liam. Whereas in the first film Max was jealous over Katie’s adopting Duke, he’s now become overprotective of their growing family and fears anything bad happening to them. But considering Max’s aversion to change in the first film, you could argue his overprotective nature is a bit of growth on his part. When Max and the family take a trip to a farm (A real one, not the one parents tell kids dogs go when they um… you know.), he leaves his favorite toy with his girlfriend, Gidget. And because Gidget’s gonna Gidget, Max ends up interrupting the beautiful Pomeranian’s spa day inside her owner’s dishwasher to drop the toy off. But when Gidget loses the toy into the Crazy Cat Lady’s (Meredith Salenger) apartment, she has to devise a plan to get it back before Max finds out. Elsewhere in the building, Snowball (Kevin Hart) has fully acclimated to life as a domesticated rabbit, despite his fantasy double-life as superhero, Captain Snowball. Newcomer Daisy (Tiffany Haddish), a bout-her-business Shih Tzu, c…