Furry Vengeance

Animals Take On Humans – Audience is Loser
Furry Vengeance, PG, *, Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Matt Prokop, Skyler Samuels. Sumit Entertainment. Director Roger Kunbe. Length 92 minutes.
“Squirrels bury nuts and forget where they buried them resulting in millions of trees.” I read this aforementioned comment at the theater before the movie started, so it appears these little creatures are not only fun to watch, but they help the environment.
This is an effort to help explain the movie. A raccoon is the leader of the creatures in the woods who are trying to stop a company from building houses and a mall.
The company claims to be a Green company. However, the company’s green refers to money. The employees are anything but sympathetic to the environment and animal life.
Dan Sanders (Brandon Fraser) is the manager of the company trying to destroy the habitat of the creatures living in the woods where the construction is going to take place. The area has a history of sacred ground for animals.
Dan’s wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and young son Tyler (Matt Prokop) are not happy about moving to the wilderness. They lived in Chicago, and this is a cultural shock for them. Of course, when Tyler meets a good looking girl, his attitude begins to change. Tammy is a school teacher. She has a job at the local school. Some of the scenes are not very kind to teachers. Poking fun at an elderly lady with Alzheimer’s is not my idea of humor. The scene is not funny, and it just falls flat with the audience.
In fact, all of the lines fall flat with mundane and mediocre attempts at laughter. Even the actors do not seem to be having fun until the credits. Tammy becomes the chairman for the Forest Festival that is held in the area each year. Tammy and Tyler are both advocates of animals and the environment. This goes against Dan since he is making a bundle of money from his job.
The raccoon begins to organize the troops. The animals start to communicate with each other and a caption with a picture on it appears above the creatures so the audience knows what is being conveyed.
The animals have discovered that Dan is the leader of this disastrous project that will destroy their homes. They begin to torment him with bird poop and lots of degusting tricks in order to stop the destruction of the forest.
The audience gets to see the animals caged which reminds one of a zoo. I remember as a young boy watching a tiger pace back and forth in a cage at the zoo. I realize zoos have their place, but it seems like a prison for animals. However, Wildlife Preservations are different. The animals still get to roam the wilds and live free.
The dialogue is extremely lame, and the tricks are full of humiliating antics that allow Dan to be the blunt of everything. The bathroom humor is really over the top.
A lot of the kids in the audience laughed at some of the tricks.
Crows, skunks, birds, bees, owls, and squirrels along with a host of other varmints help to make Dan’s life miserable. It made my life miserable for about 90 minutes.
The credits are the best part of the movie. One reason is that the movie is over, and the other one is that the actors finally seem to be enjoying what they are doing.
Children may like this fiasco, but I do not think many adults will.