How many laughs
do you think we'll get for this?
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Pray silence
for the turkey of the year. Highly appropriate since it's called
The Animal. This film makes The Martins look good!
Nigel
Bell
There is puerile humour and then there is The Animal, which
is simply not funny at all.
I struggle to
think who will appreciate this film. It's surely too dumb even for
the American
Pie 2 crowd (at least that film has some decent laughs).
There's dumbing
down and there's dumbing down. This film goes deeper than the lowest
shaft in one of Nottinghamshire's remaining coalmines.
Let's not beat
about the bush. The Animal is rubbish.
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Rob Scheider
plays a police clerk who wants to follow in his father's footsteps
and become an heroic officer.
While answering
an emergency call he's involved in a car crash (when he has to swerve
to avoid a seal!).
Like the Six
Million Dollar man he's rebuilt, but animal parts are used instead
of hi tec eyes etc.
The result is
our hero (!) Marvin develops a super sense of smell, allowing him
to detect a drugs trafficker. His reward is a place on the police
force.
Sadly Marvin
has trouble controlling his animal urges. He chases a Frisbee like
a dog, has a dog flea collar put on him to stop him scratching and
constantly sniffs butt. How funny - not!
This is a poor
man's Jim Carrey. Schneider is a star of America's Saturday Night
Live programme and friend of Adam Sandler. Even if you like their
type of humour you'll struggle to find the jokes in The Animal.
In a film with
no redeeming points the nadir is met when Marvin smells a goat in
heat and spends the next seven minutes making a pass at said creature.
I kid (kid -
ho ho) you not. Avoid at all costs.
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