Review of Furry Vengeance (2010) by Ross H — 01 Oct 2010

The two movies that were the most critically maligned this year have been All About Steve and this one featuring Brendan Fraser. Well this one blows away All About Steve. Summit Entertainment totally promoted this movie wrong.

They tried to sell it as a fun little family movie. Well it is that. But it's a fun little family movie that's aimed at 8 or 9 year olds. They should have pushed it toward the Garfield movie crowds and the like.

Frasar plays a real estate developer who's company promotes themselves as being green but is currently destroying an entire forest to put in a new housing development that his family must live in for at least a few years.

His boss, played great by Ken Jeong (who is rapidly stealing the show in every film he's in lately) is a riot, especially when he reprimands his assistant. Frasar's wife in the movie is played by Brooke Shields (huh?!) and I was wondering the same thing.

How did she get the part? Totally miscast and zero chemistry between her and Frasar as well as their son. The dialogue between the family slowed down the movie. We want Brenden Frasar doing physical comedy in these kind of movies don't we? Why yes we do! You see there's a bunch of animals in the forest that don't take to having their homes destroyed so we see them plotting revenge! The raccoon is their ringleader.

There's squirrels, skunks (in a funny scene), and all kinds of creatures trying to see the wrong in Frasar's thinking. Will they succeed? Well it's a family movie after all.