finished watching The Secret Life of Pets 2 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑
Despite still feeling as heavily corporate as the first film, one does have to give Secret Life of Pets 2 fair credit for trying something new and interesting with having two subplots that converge into the main plot towards the end of the film.

However, arguably, the execution, to me at least, feels a little poorly done as some transitions between the subplots feel a little too quickly done. On top of this, the subplots feel as though they lack some zing or punch to them. Whereas the main plot of the film had general themes and messages to it, the subplots, unfortunately, feel as though they lack that, and as such, it feels as though an opportunity was missed to add complexity and deeper understanding to the overall message of the film.

That said, one does have to appreciate the fact that the film does accomplish a intriguing feat of being able to send a message targeted specifically for parents on top of the message for family audiences as a whole, especially one that's all too familiar, yet rarely touched on in a film of this nature, the last example of such I can recall being Finding Nemo, a film that came a full sixteen years before this one.

All in all, Secret Life of Pets 2 has a number of flaws that persist from the first film that leave a corporate taste as clean as soap in one's mouth, yet, while still generally forgettable, one has to give fair credit to the film for trying something new and being able to leave something somewhat of worth to parents in a film generally more directed at their kids.