FURRY VENGEANCE

“FURRY VENGEANCE” (Brendan Fraser & Brooke Shields)

Obviously you go into this film knowing it’s going to be dumb – but if you like animals more than you like human beings you’ll probably enjoy this despite the stupid premises and the really bad acting – by the way there are 2 actors here that were also in ‘The Hangover’ but it doesn’t help; I recently viewed a clip from ‘Failure To Launch’ which featured two of the stars of ‘Hangover’ & if that wasn’t the worst film of whatever year it came out, it was a close second.
So I guess that proves it doesn’t matter who you hire to act in your comedy – if the material isn’t there, it’s going to suck. This film however isn’t aimed at anyone who cares about acting – it was custom made for little tykes (and people like me who like to see animals get the best of humans) If you have small children rent it for them when it comes out on DVD (it probably already has) #1) because they will enjoy the antics of the wily clever raccoon and his forest pals & #2) it actually has a ‘message’/’morale’ that never hurts for little ones to learn. Plus kids will laugh at a car full of skunks unloading their ‘stinkers’ on the bad guy who plans to bulldoze their forest. They’ll probably even laugh when the husband (Fraser) belts his wife (Shields) in the face with a squirrel made out of raw hamburger (Don’t worry it isn’t on purpose, just a catapult experiment gone horribly awry)
The humor is ‘Stooge-ish’, the acting deplorable and the super-intelligent animals aren’t believable at all – yet, I didn’t mind ‘Furry Vengeance’ at all because I love stories where animals get revenge on mankind for destroying their pieces of the world.
So don’t let the title fool you, it isn’t a re-make of an ultra-violent lesbian porno from the 70’s – just a cute little tale about the creatures of the woodlands mounting a counter-attack against the greedy developers that would kill them to extinction for a profit.