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FURRY VENGEANCE

 ABOUT THE MOVIE

Genre: Comedy
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Matt Prokop, Angela Kinsey, Ricky Garcia, Billy Bush, Skyler Samuels, Gerry Bednob
Director: Roger Kumble
Rating: PG
Year Made: 2010

 


 SPECIAL FEATURES

- Interviews With Cast & Crew
- Behind The Scenes of FURRY VENGEANCE


 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages: English
Subtitles: English/Chinese
Aspect Ratio: 16x9
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Running Time: 1 hr 27 mins
Region Code: 3
Distributor: Alliance Entertainment



 

 

SYNOPSIS: 

Sometimes, four legs are better than two. Dan just moved his wife and son to the woods to take a new job with a supposedly eco-friendly housing development. But the fur and Dan's temper is sure to fly when the local critters learn of the bleak plans for their forest home and stop at nothing to halt construction.

MOVIE REVIEW:

What’s with Hollywood constant obsession with animals? Dogs, cats, raccoon, skunk, hamster, you name it, they have it. Thus for the umpteenth time, we are treated to another run-out-of-mill comedy starring Brendan Fraser and yes a bunch of critters from the woods.

Fraser looking all aged and chubby, a great departure from his heyday in "George of the Jungle" plays a real estate developer, Dan Sanders. Sanders are tasked by his boss Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong from "The Hangover") to oversee a proposed housing development plan in the wilderness. This encroachment on nature forces a band of animals led by a raccoon to fight against Sanders in a war between animals and man. You know, the end mesage is protect the animals and wilderness that sort of thing. Yes we do get it.

Someone seems to conveniently lift the basic plotting of "Furry Vengeance" from the 2006 DreamWorks’ animation, "Over the Hedge" where forest animals invade the suburban for food. Then again, Hollywood is not really a place where creativity dwells. Thus instead of talking animals in the form of those seen in "Dr Dolittle", we have bubbles of thoughts, sort of similar to a comic strip attached to the animals. This might seem a novelty at first yet again this is not a cartoon short we are talking about.

For ¾ of the running time, we are bombarded by some dumb humour courtesy of Brendan Fraser. His Dan Sanders character gets pee by the raccoon, poked by a crow, sprays by a skunk, chased by a vulture, sting by bees and trapped in a portable toilet by a grizzly bear. It’s embarrassing to see the sometimes serious actor (see "Crash", "The Quiet American") resorting to a tirade of slapstick trauma to entertain the crowds. And did I say he even squeezed himself into a pair of tight pink tracksuit and white undies just to generate further laughter. Seriously the younger audience might have a field time spotting the various animal species than seeing Fraser and his unbearable antics.

The in-demand comedian Ken Jeong appears as the ruthless Lyman though it’s obvious he is trying hard to improvise/recycle whatever gibberish is written on his part into something watchable. The gorgeous Brooke Shields plays Mrs Sanders and to her credit, easier on the eyes than Fraser.

Partially funded by Summit Entertainment, the company behind a certain wildly successful vampire franchise, "Furry Vengeance" is one huge lame excuse for an ecological message, one that is too long even for a mere 87 minutes. On hindsight, Summit should just spend the $35 million budget to clean up some oil spill or protect some Amazon forestry than on this dreadful mess.

SPECIAL FEATURES :

There is a whole lot of Interviews With Cast & Crew. It’s painful to see them waxing lyrical on a movie like this but then again, they are being paid to do so.

Behind The Scenes of FURRY VENGEANCE lasts 19 minutes and it’s a much more rewarding experience watching the animal wranglers hard at work than Fraser and Jeong goofing off.

AUDIO/VISUAL:

Colours are bright and natural for this DVD transfer though at times it brings out the inadequacies of the CG. Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 and even that, Fraser and the furry critters can be a tad noisy.

MOVIE RATING:



DVD RATING :

Review by Linus Tee

Posted on 28 September 2010

 
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