Pets United

Pets United is a German-Chinese-British animated film directed and written by Reinhard Klooss and released on Netflix in Summer 2020. It is infamous for cashing in onto The Secret Life Of Pets and was popular on Youtube.

Plot
Roger is a blue heeler ​​who lives in Robotcity, a high-tech city where humans and machines coexist. One day, the evil mayor unleashes a robotic attack on citizens to eliminate pets, and Roger, along with his animal friends and a malfunctioning robot who has joined the team, will have to survive from everything from the bots themselves down to a trio of carnivores from a zoo who would like to eat the team.

Why It Can't Unite

 * 1) The film tries in vain to cash out The Secret Life of Pets and its sequel, but it fails.
 * 2) Uninteresting and almost one-dimensional characters. Roger is also a weak protagonist.
 * 3) Cheap and ugly animation which is similar to Norm of the North's. In fact, the film has the same problems as the latter:
 * 4) *Poor movements of the characters.
 * 5) *Awful camera movements for most of the movie.
 * 6) **Too many animation errors:
 * 7) ***Roger's fur is very often interspersed with his bandana in the film.
 * 8) ***There is a scene where Roger rummages through his girlfriend's fridge, at one point he drops chicken legs all over the place. However, in one shot, a little leg to his right disappears into thin air.
 * 9) ***In the assembly of the robot attack on Robotcity, at a certain point a boy is framed and behind him there is a street lamp that is detached from the sidewalk by a few centimeters.
 * 10) *It's unbelievable that a Netflix movie like this has such mediocre animation, considering that Over the Moon (another Chinese movie also distributed by Netflix) came out a few months after the latter and has animation thirty times better than this.
 * 11) Notable humor consisting of pointless animal poop jokes and couch gags.
 * 12) Bad voice acting.
 * 13) The ending is nothing more than a cliché dance party where all the characters are dancing to drum and bass music.
 * 14) RobotCity is a very ridiculous and boring name for a futuristic city.
 * 15) *Speaking of how technological RobotCity is ... well ... only robots distinguish it for high-tech; the rest is similar to any normal city of our present, with parks, zoos and similar shops, and to add salt to the wound, many cities today (like Tokyo and Shanghai) are more futuristic than this Robotcity, and they all have robots!
 * 16) Plot hole: Does Roger really intend to get married to a cat?
 * 17) The plot twist is not only bad, but is also very confusing; it turns out that the mayor of Robotcity is Roger's owner and the reason why he abandoned Roger is because the latter has moved away from him and got lost, thus forced to live a homeless life. It turns out that Roger's alleged father was actually an enemy AI who hated his creator (Roger's father) and all pets, who wanted them to be replaced by robots, so he managed to take control of RobotCity and to make everybody evacuate.
 * 18) Ronaldo is a terrible and a razzista (rascist) Italian stereotype.
 * 19) False advertising: The Spider Robot has been pasted onto almost every promotional poster for the film, but it only appears in a very few scenes.
 * 20) *Due to how little he appears in the film, the spider robot is a useless antagonist who does nothing special for the film other than unnecessarily endanger the lives of the protagonists, and even if he was removed from the film, the plot would never change from time to time.
 * 21) Some scenes don't have an ounce of logic, such as how Ronaldo was surviving by being destroyed by the incinerator.
 * 22) Continuity errors here and there within the film:
 * 23) *Roger is portrayed in his wanted posters as wearing a mask, but he never wears one.
 * 24) *Roger is known to everybody as  'the thief from RobotCity', but strangely nobody knows him.
 * 25) *Although the city is abandoned at one point, some cars still hover in the air while others are down on the ground.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The idea of ​​a robot invasion movie being experienced from a pet's point of view is an interesting and creative idea, and despite the problems listed above, it was executed quite well.
 * 2) The characters are at least nice, and the antagonist is quite intimidating.
 * 3) Some moments deserve a good laugh. Also the way the antagonist is transported to an incinerator and seen with a ballerina body is also quite amusing.
 * 4) The character designs are decent, specially from the robots.
 * 5) The film has a good moral about being united and teamwork.
 * 6) Roger's backstory is heartbreaking and is perhaps the best part of the film.

Trivia

 * This movie is a pseudo-sequel to Animals United, another film with a similar premise also made by the same director.

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