Pets United: L'union fait la force

The entire plot could be explained in a few sentences. It should really be a 5-10 minute animated short and even then it would be unimaginative.

The animation looks good in stills but in motion it's awful. The editing is just bad. Nothing feels smooth or natural. None of the dialogue is interesting at all.

If I gave netflix budget animation tools to your average high school level writers and designers you would get this movie. Even then I would give them a C-.

Well all I can say is this is one of the worst animations I have seen in a long time.

To begin with the voice actors have no other emotion other than read as if they reading a book or maybe they thought they were all the robots. How they got Natalie dormer to sign on I don't know, she must have just been killed off on thrones and thought she wouldn't have got another job like all the other deaths off that show. Don't even get me started with the Ronaldo character and his voice that is just ridiculous.

Then the actual animation itself is pretty poor and would expect this as an early 2000 cartoon film.

As for the story that is just ridiculous, the story boarding meeting must have been a free for all, they must have gone we like secret life of pets, wall-e, big hero 6 and bolt and then I am legend and thrown it all together and well it is just a big mess.

The song with the crocodile, tiger and hyena has to be said is awful.

If you can don't bother watching this with your kids as it is no fun nor entertaining.

Something obviously went very, very, very wrong during the making of this computer animated movie. The only theory I have that might explain its general failure to entertain is the fact that it was a co-production between three very different countries - China, Germany, and the UK. With three different cultures working on the same project, it seems that it couldn't be fine tuned to be satisfying to one (or any) culture.

The movie fails in two big ways. First, there is the script. It is an utter mess. There are many things that are not explained, character development is usually near zero, and there is obvious padding. The second misstep is that it is directed in a manner that is pretty much free of passion and enthusiasm. Things plod along EXTREMELY slowly, and when there is a scene of action or suspense, the movie is remarkably casual and unexciting. Even the music score throughout is held back so much that you hardly register it in your mind.

In fairness to the movie, I will admit that I wasn't unsatisfied by its visual presentation. While the movie didn't have a Hollywood budget, the movie looks fairly colorful and detailed. But even with an acceptable look, the rest of the movie is so tiresome and badly handled that it was a real struggle for me to watch the movie completely to the end. I think even young children will get some sort of feeling that the movie is being held back in many key areas, so even they should not be subjected to watching it.

This movie is just awful. Like, not offensive or anything. Theres nothing in there i would not want my kids to see. Its just bad. It feels like somebody fed the twenty most popular kids movies on Netflix to a computer and asked an algorithm to write a script. Then it was edited and retold by my five year old. And then the voice acting was done by whoever was available at the local community college. Cliche tropes is one thing, but this one is done with no charm, character, emotion, nothing. The story is somehow both standard cliche tropes AND makes no sense. The pacing is slow so there is no excitement, the characters are flat so you really dont care about anything one way or another.

Its just plain bad.

It's just bad. The dialog is forced. Voice acting is terrible. Story is worse.