From the humans behind DESPICABLE ME comes the pets of New York City. A mutt named Max (voice of Louis C.K.) loves his owner Katie (voice of Ellie Kemper). She adopted Max from the pound. With one sloppy lick all is good, or not. Max is her roommate or is it soulmate, until Katie brings home Duke (voice of Eric Stonestreet), a gigantic dust mop of a dog.
When Katie goes to work all hell ensues. The dogs escape and animal control catches them. Soon it involves the neighborhood of dogs and cats left home by their owners, too. And it’s a mad-cap adventure to get Max and Duke back to their apartment. There’s Gidget (voice of Jenny Slate) a white little poof-ball Pomeranian full of pizzazz. And Chloe the cat (Voice of Lake Bell) with surprise-surprise attitude. And then there’s Leonard, the big proper poodle who – once his elegant British owners depart for the office – flips on the heavy metal.
On their lost-in-New-York adventure they’ll come across feral cats in trash cans, and one big-mouthed button-eyed Duracel-ish bunny named Snowball (voice of Kevin Hart). His philosophy – where he reigns supreme of misfit animals of the sewer system – is that all of us have suffered at the hands of man. It’s a highly entertaining, a big mature at times with a hard PG rating, but alas, a real summer kids film. And a very heart-fuzzy ending.