It is nothing of the kind, unless “Toy Story” suddenly turns into a bad movie when our backs are turned. The most amusing sequence (already spoiled in the trailer) shows these and other animals having fun and acting naughty once their owners’ backs are turned, initially suggesting that “The Secret Life of Pets” might turn out to be the “Toy Story” of talking-animal movies. Arriving in the dog days of an unusually mediocre summer for big-studio entertainments, the picture is a glorified hairball pulled together from the strands of better, more appealing movies and then noisily coughed up and disgorged at a multiplex near you. Opening with a Taylor Swift-scored tribute to New York and ending with a traffic-stopping action climax that has the grave misfortune of following “Finding Dory” into theaters, “The Secret Life of Pets” is governed by a spirit not of revelation but of confirmation. No, the questions and possibilities raised by this new feature-length cartoon - antically directed by Chris Renaud and his co-director, Yarrow Cheney - are too deep and perplexing to be discussed in such crass commercial terms.ĭoes the movie perhaps mean to enlighten the stereotypically inclined animal lovers in the audience - to show us that dogs can be more than dumb, slobbering oafs and that not all cats are contemptuous, self-absorbed snobs? That unbeknownst to us, our favorite domestic animals are actually fascinating, fully developed characters in their own right? Now that we’ve observed the secret lives of bees, the American teenager and Walter Mitty, does this latest tell-all actually contain any secrets worth spilling? Watch Horizon 's Secret Life of the Cat on BBC Two on Thursday 13 June at 21:00 and afterwards on BBC iPlayer.Why does “The Secret Life of Pets” exist? I mean besides the obvious reasons, like the bankability of family-friendly animation, the ticket surcharges for 3-D or the fact that Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment are trying to boost their share of the non-Minion collectible toy market. Read more about the science and technology behind the study from Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College. Web production: Steven Atherton, Chris Finch, Alex Ranken, Lucy Rodgers, Helene Sears, Marina Shchukina, Noah Veltman With thanks to Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College, Sarah Ellis of the University of Lincoln, John Bradshaw of Bristol University, and the villagers of Shamley Green Time ticks over a 24-hour period and does not reflect the hour of the day. GPS tracking data was filtered to discard obvious false readings, however some smaller inaccuracies may remain. The maps of the routes of the 10 cats above are not all from the same 24-hour period or necessarily from the same day the cat cam footage was recorded. All equipment was checked by animal welfare experts to ensure it was the right size and weight for cats to wear safely. Micro-cameras were attached to a selection of cats to film their activities. Researchers used GPS trackers to record the cats' movements over six 24-hour periods. Notes: The 10 cats above are a selection of 50 studied in the Surrey Hills over a number of weeks.
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