At the farm, Max - who's full of anxiety about the baby's safety - meets gruff, tough older dog Rooster ( Harrison Ford), who herds cattle with ease and isn't having any of Max's overcautiousness. This animated sequel is basically a reworking of City Slickers, but that's the beauty of making movies for kids: Old stories are all new to them. For kids, though, the main moral of the story is to face and embrace the changes life inevitably brings. ![]() Messages for parents revolve around Max's anxiety about keeping his owner's toddler safe his helicopter ways are questioned by a dog named Rooster ( Harrison Ford), who's more of a let-them-get-hurt-and-learn kind of canine. ![]() And there's a scene in which a cat is high on catnip. Language includes "pissed," put-downs ("jerk," "idiot," "stupid," etc.), and potty humor ("turd"). Animals punch and throw knives at one another, and a bad guy is hit by a car, but no one is ever really injured. The dark humor and peril are toned down from the original, with more of a shift to slapstick violence that's meant to be funny. ![]() A subplot has Snowball ( Kevin Hart) and new dog Daisy ( Tiffany Haddish) working together to rescue an abused tiger from a Russian circus that has menacing wolves and a cartoonishly villainous lion tamer. It continues the story of Max (now voiced by Patton Oswalt) as his owner gets married and has a baby. ![]() Parents need to know that The Secret Life of Pets 2 is the sequel to the 2016 animated comedy about what pets do when their humans aren't home.
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