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The Animal
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Starring: Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell Director: Luke Greenfield
Rated: PG-13 RunTime: 97 Minutes Release Date: June 2001 Genre: Comedy |
 Review by Susan Granger 1 star out of 4
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"America's Sweetheart" Colleen Haskell didn't outlast Richard Hatch
on "Survivor," but the plucky 24 year-old emerges from this crazed
catastrophe unscathed - unless you count Rob Schneider's running his
tongue across her face. Schneider plays Marvin Mange, a mousy,
mild-mannered police department file clerk who is the victim in an awful
automobile accident. While unconscious, he's reassembled by a weird
scientist (Michael Caton) who gives him organs from various animals.
So the once-physically challenged dork awakens from a coma with the speed
of a cheetah, the olfactory sense of a dog, and the sexual drive of a
goat. At the local airport, he's able to sniff out heroin and nab a drug
smuggler and, as a result, is immediately welcomed on the police force
by the grateful Chief (Ed Asner), much to the chagrin of his bullying,
muscle-bound sergeant (John C. McGinley). He discovers he can outrun
a man on horseback and swim like a seal. (All of the best clips were in
the "Coming Attractions.") Since he has no idea about the implants, he
attributes his amazing physical prowess to a disgusting beverage called
Badger Milk. But his feral instincts prove a definitive distraction in
his courtship of a vegetarian environmentalist (perpetually smiling
Colleen Haskell) who runs the local animal shelter, not to mention the
tufts of coarse hair sprouting from his buttocks. And I won't even delve
into his barnyard flirtation with a female goat in heat. Produced by
Adam Sandler, this behavioral fable was co-written by Rob Schneider
with Tom Brady and directed by Luke Greenfield, who is obviously a novice.
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "The Animal" limps in with a crass,
crude 3. Think of a dumb and demented "Island of Dr. Moreau" Saturday
Night Live spin-off.
Copyright © 2001 Susan Granger
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