Meanwhile, while her owner is away, plucky Pomeranian Gidget (Jenny Slate) tries to rescue Max’s favorite toy from a cat-packed apartment with a little help from her feline friend, Chloe (Lake Bell), who has discovered the joys of catnip.Īnd crazy-but-cute bunny Snowball (Kevin Hart) gets delusions of grandeur that he’s an actual superhero after his owner Molly starts dressing him in superhero pajamas. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster (Harrison Ford, making his animated-film debut), who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. On a family trip to a farm, Max and mutt Duke (Eric Stonestreet) encounter canine-intolerant cows, hostile foxes and a terrifying turkey, all of which only elevates Max’s anxiety. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. His owner (Ellie Kemper) is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Yet there are insistent hints - an over-eager use of social media for one, lies about her health for another - that Ma is not all she seems.Terrier Max (Patton Oswalt) is coping with some major life changes. Sue Ann’s place - she gets the nickname 'Ma' - becomes the destination for partying kids, as these kids dance to Earth Wind And Fire and watch Ma kick down beer cans to Carl Douglas’ 'Kung Fu Fighting'.
It’s a sluggish start filled with obvious teen tropes as good girl Maggie (Silvers from Booksmart) hooks up with the cool kids ('You don’t vape?' Miller’s Hayley asks her) who spend their nights boozing at an abandoned rock quarry until veterinary assistant Sue Ann (Spencer) invites them back to her basement to carouse in comfort. Yet it’s more than just a derivative feel that undoes Tate Taylor’s amped up exploitation movie. Ma has its finger in a number of genre pies the kindly woman-turned-psycho movie of the ‘90s (think The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Single White Female), the teen antics and OTT horror of Carrie and the torture porn of the film’s production house Blumhouse.
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