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Brooke Shields and Brendan Fraser\u00a0Star in the comedy Furry Vengence<\/em><\/p>\n Furry Vengeance Uses Too Much\u00a0Slapstick To be Great Comedy<\/strong><\/p>\n by Sandra Olmsted<\/strong><\/p>\n Furry Vengeance,<\/em> much like Mousehunt<\/em> (Dreamworks 1997), sets out to convince the audience that small animals have a maniacal side when provoked; unfortunately, Furry Vengeance<\/em> lacks the dark humor of Mousehunt<\/em> and relies instead on scatological humor and poorly done slapstick.<\/p>\n Written by Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert (both credited for Mr. Woodcock<\/em>), the script is merely a string of barely-related gags populated by disconnected characters for whom nothing of real value is at stake.\u00a0 About the only things Furry Vengeance<\/em> has going for it are a strong message about not developing every acre of potentially \u201cprime real estate\u201d and that at least young children will be mesmerized by the animated animals, potty humor, and prat falls.<\/p>\n The basic premise is that the forest animals go on the offensive, rather than just using defensive weapons and traps, when their forest home is going to be leveled and repaved as yet another sprawling suburb.\u00a0 After killing one developer in the first few minutes of the film, a fact hardly noted thereafter, the animals start their offensive against Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser, Extraordinary Measures<\/em>), the schlub promoted to fill the vacancy.\u00a0 Since the film makes so little of the one developer\u2019s disappearance and, as the audience knows, murder, there seems to be nothing at stake for Dan, trivializing the slapstick machinations he suffers at the hands of furry nemeses.<\/p>\n Although Dan orders the blowing up of a beaver dam, there are no consequences directly related to this for Dan or his construction crew who blew it up.\u00a0 Also, if the animals understand that Dan is the boss behind the development, then why don\u2019t they go after Dan\u2019s boss, Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong, All About Steve<\/em>), and his supersonic jet?\u00a0 The raccoon in charge of the animal army knows about Dan\u2019s boss and his jet because the raccoon tags along for a ride in Dan\u2019s SUV, gets on Lyman\u2019s jet, and overhears the whole plan to level the forest.\u00a0 Kumble also sets up jokes that don\u2019t pay off:<\/p>\n The raccoon hitches that ride\u00a0 via a picnic basket full of sandwiches, which should have lead to an amusing discovery regarding the sandwiches.\u00a0 In fact, aside from physical and mental pain, embarrassment seems to be the only comeuppance Dan can expect for being the company pawn in charge of destroying the planet in the name of corporate greed.\u00a0 Of course, he\u2019s also providing consumer goods for his wife Tammy (Brooke Shields, who lately guest stars on TV shows) and disgruntled teenage son Tyler (Matt Prokop, High School Musical 3: Senior Year<\/em>).\u00a0 When beleaguered Dan finally realizes that he, the raccoon, and the other animals share a desire to provide for and to protect their families, he becomes the ally of the animals.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the anemic direction by Kumble and the lackluster story by Carnes and Gilbert leave much undeveloped in a premise that had potential and much talent unused in a cast perfectly able to handle these types of roles.\u00a0 Fraser can make a character sympathetic while doing the mugging and emoting required by broad comedy, but Kumble doesn\u2019t use Fraser\u2019s natural likability because Dan is scripted as a heavy who is willing to forget about being eco-green for that other kind of green<\/p>\n While audiences may be curious to see whether Shields and her jeans still have it, the actress is best as a straight woman.\u00a0 Her character only sees her husband after conflicts with the animals and is never a partner in his struggles.\u00a0 Her character needs to be helping Dan fight the animals or the developers, but the script only has her repeatedly questioning Dan\u2019s sanity like a ghost making \u201cwooing\u201d noises in the attic.\u00a0 Furry Vengeance<\/em> would have been funnier if Lyman was at the construction site longer, and Dan and Tammy Sanders were interposing themselves between Lyman\u00a0 and the animals to save Dan\u2019s job.\u00a0 Then the Sanders could have worked to prevent the forest\u2019s destruction for the purely ecological reasons which they supposedly believe in since Dan repeats frequently that he works for a \u201cgreen company<\/p>\n Rated PG for rude humor, comic violence, mild language, and smoking, Furry Vengeance<\/em> is a Participant Media production and a Summit Entertainment release and runs 92 long minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brooke Shields and Brendan Fraser\u00a0Star in the comedy Furry Vengence Furry Vengeance Uses Too Much\u00a0Slapstick To be Great Comedy by Sandra Olmsted Furry Vengeance, much like Mousehunt (Dreamworks 1997), sets out to 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