Starring: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Dick Van Dyke, Ken Jeong, Samantha Johnson
Director: Roger Kumble (Just Friends, The Sweetest Thing)
Running Time: 1 hr 32 min
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Budget: $35 million
Critics’ Thumbs Up: 13%
“Goofball fun that will have kids – big and small – rolling in the aisles.” David Hughes, Empire
“…unbearable…” Mike Hale, The New York Times
Though it boasts a good message about keeping our environment clean and healthy, Furry Vengeance itself is a terrible movie. In this painfully unfunny live-action family film, Fraser stars as a real estate developer intent on paving over a beautiful forest full of supposed spunky animals. The script is so lazy and the dialogue so inert that it makes one grateful the animals don’t speak; yet, perhaps Vengeance would be more entertaining if they had more to do than just urinate and attack Fraser below the waist. Not only do the animals look pitifully fake, the characters are also mere sketches played by talented but underused big-name actors.
