Post by StevePulaski on Jun 29, 2011 14:14:45 GMT -5
Rating: ½★
Furry Vengeance is not only guilty of being an incoherent mess of a movie, but has its fair share of the most selfish movie characters I've ever seen. Brendan Fraser's character is too shy to speak his mind and all he wants is money, and his son only stands up for the animals because his girlfriend is into "saving the trees." If it wasn't for that girl walking into his life, he'd be at home on his Macbook playing computer games, not caring if animals are killed or not.
Let me bring you up to speed; Dan Sanders (Fraser) is a Chicago-based real estate employee who was passed down the job of turning a huge forest into a field of development. The boss of Dan is Neal Lyman (Jeong) who is about as dopey as an adult can be, constantly on his cell-phone like a fifteen year old girl who a brand new boyfriend.
As soon as Dan accepts the job, the whole forest of animals turns against him. By this I mean attacking him in inconceivable and dopey ways. His son (Prokop) and his wife (Shields) think he has gone nuts, and the antics just get worse and worse as the film goes on.
The CGI animals are ridiculous. It's not funny to see a real-looking animal's eyes pop out of his head or see them give the "thumbs up" gesture. In a cartoon that was an hour and twenty minutes shorter, it probably would've been cute and way less forced. No actor in this movie was funny, and all had a "collect the check" attitude in them.
Not to mention, when is it ever funny to see adults acting like big kids in a serious situation? I find it hard to believe that Dan is a real estate agent when his first instinct to cease a barking crow is to grab a stack of papers to shoo it away. Also, if this guy is being attacked by animals, why go outside so much?
Someways he treats these animals could also be considered animal cruelty. I know they're just poorly rendered CGI creatures, but still, even the thought of a grown man wrestling with animals is a sad, inexcusable thing to put in a children's movie. Real or not, it's all the same; unfunny.
Its stereotypical view of the world, and most notably Asians, is also appealing. When is it okay to place stereotypical humor in a kid's movie? Never. It doesn't add to the fun of the film. Kids most likely won't get the references, but I'm sure adults will, and I doubt they will be happy.
Will Furry Vengeance amuse kids? The demographic it is going for is most likely five and under, so it might amuse them. Six and seven are pushing it. Anyone older than eight will likely be bored and uninterested in this distasteful bland of animal abusive and wretched humor. Adults' intelligence will feel insulted by sitting there watching humorless hijink after hijink unfold.
Quite possibly the most amusing scene in the film is when Dan's son talks about animals getting revenge on caveman. The caveman shown in the flashback is played by Brendan Fraser, and it's a reference to when he played the caveman turned exchange student in his first film Encino Man. A funny reference, but doesn't come close to saving this movie from cheap and unfunny.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Matt Prokop, Angela Kinsey, and Ken Jeong. Directed by: Roger Kumble.
Furry Vengeance is not only guilty of being an incoherent mess of a movie, but has its fair share of the most selfish movie characters I've ever seen. Brendan Fraser's character is too shy to speak his mind and all he wants is money, and his son only stands up for the animals because his girlfriend is into "saving the trees." If it wasn't for that girl walking into his life, he'd be at home on his Macbook playing computer games, not caring if animals are killed or not.
Let me bring you up to speed; Dan Sanders (Fraser) is a Chicago-based real estate employee who was passed down the job of turning a huge forest into a field of development. The boss of Dan is Neal Lyman (Jeong) who is about as dopey as an adult can be, constantly on his cell-phone like a fifteen year old girl who a brand new boyfriend.
As soon as Dan accepts the job, the whole forest of animals turns against him. By this I mean attacking him in inconceivable and dopey ways. His son (Prokop) and his wife (Shields) think he has gone nuts, and the antics just get worse and worse as the film goes on.
The CGI animals are ridiculous. It's not funny to see a real-looking animal's eyes pop out of his head or see them give the "thumbs up" gesture. In a cartoon that was an hour and twenty minutes shorter, it probably would've been cute and way less forced. No actor in this movie was funny, and all had a "collect the check" attitude in them.
Not to mention, when is it ever funny to see adults acting like big kids in a serious situation? I find it hard to believe that Dan is a real estate agent when his first instinct to cease a barking crow is to grab a stack of papers to shoo it away. Also, if this guy is being attacked by animals, why go outside so much?
Someways he treats these animals could also be considered animal cruelty. I know they're just poorly rendered CGI creatures, but still, even the thought of a grown man wrestling with animals is a sad, inexcusable thing to put in a children's movie. Real or not, it's all the same; unfunny.
Its stereotypical view of the world, and most notably Asians, is also appealing. When is it okay to place stereotypical humor in a kid's movie? Never. It doesn't add to the fun of the film. Kids most likely won't get the references, but I'm sure adults will, and I doubt they will be happy.
Will Furry Vengeance amuse kids? The demographic it is going for is most likely five and under, so it might amuse them. Six and seven are pushing it. Anyone older than eight will likely be bored and uninterested in this distasteful bland of animal abusive and wretched humor. Adults' intelligence will feel insulted by sitting there watching humorless hijink after hijink unfold.
Quite possibly the most amusing scene in the film is when Dan's son talks about animals getting revenge on caveman. The caveman shown in the flashback is played by Brendan Fraser, and it's a reference to when he played the caveman turned exchange student in his first film Encino Man. A funny reference, but doesn't come close to saving this movie from cheap and unfunny.
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Matt Prokop, Angela Kinsey, and Ken Jeong. Directed by: Roger Kumble.