When, a moment later, Katie unexpectedly reappears, Max is as overjoyed as if she were returning at the end of the day - but after grabbing her phone, she’s gone again, leaving Max to forlornly repeat his mantra of sorrow. Our hero, a terrier named Max voiced by Louis C.K., sinks into despondency the moment his mistress, a young New Yorker named Katie, walks out the door to work. Many of these early jokes are in the trailer. Think of the dogs in Pixar’s Up breaking off in midsentence with “Squirrel!” Or the seagulls in Finding Nemo crying, “Mine! Mine! Mine!” You know what I mean. The first act of The Secret Life of Pets leans on a style of humor that we might call “anthropomorphic observational comedy.” That is, the gags involve talking animals, mostly cats and dogs, behaving in recognizably feline or canine ways, but, you know, talking.
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