Visitors Review

Bill Goodykoontz (2012-05-25 13:22)

A stupid, mean-spirited little movie that ranks down there with the worst in recent memory. Distant memory, too.

Simon Reynolds (2012-05-25 04:37)

Overall, it's all a bit rubbish, but if you like Brendan Fraser's big rubbery face then there's chuckles to be had.

(2012-05-24 01:06)

They just mailed this one in.

This review is from: Furry Vengeance (DVD) It's harmless entertainment for a four year old but mostly intolerable for mom and dad.

Brent Simon (2012-05-23 07:47)

Witless and wince-inducing -- a slapstick misfire of epic proportions, even by downwardly adjusted expectations of movies in which anthropomorphized animals do battle with humans.

dtucker86 (2012-05-19 17:25)

The day the animals got even

This movie reminds me of the 1988 John Candy film The Great Outdoors inthat it featured a clever, vengeful raccoon and a bear. Brendan Fraser,a fine comic and dramatic actor, plays such a jerk that you laugh whenthe animals wreck all this havoc on him. He's so dumb he doesn'trealize his boss is playing him for a fool until the very end when weget this feel good message about saving the animals and wildlife. Thismovie is aimed for kids, so I expected they would go overboard with thepotty humor (like the scene where he is caught in the porto john andthe bear tips it over. Why didn't he just run back to the houseinstead?). This is Brooke Shields first theatrical film in ten yearsand she still looks dazzling. She shows a wonderful comic touch as thelong suffering wife. There's a funny scene where she gets hit in theface. I just wish they had included subtitles so we could tell what theanimals were thinking!

Fred VanOlphen (2012-05-19 13:56)

Way Underrated

This movie is funny and entertaining. After starting to watch aboutfour other movies at least this is one I can finish. It's also one yourkids can watch. O.K. maybe it's not my favorite movie of all time butit is well done.I really wonder how this movie ended up with less than a 3.0 rating.Thank God I take ratings with a grain of salt. This one's either beingsabotaged or perhaps it says something about who is doing the ratings.If sex and violence is a requirement for you to think a movie is greatdon't bother with this one.Brendan Fraser is great. Brooke Shields is great. Ricky Garcia isgreat. Eugene Cordero is great. Patrice O'Neal is great. Jim Norton isgreat. Matt Prokop is great. Billy Bush is great. Ken Jeong is great.Angela Kinsey is great. Samantha Bee is great. Alice Drummond is great.Toby Huss is great. Skyler Samuels is great. Gerry Bednob is great. Andlet's not forget all the great animal actors! I always love it when theanimals win.Hope this offsets some of the negativity.

(2012-05-19 21:26)

omg....

I love my kids more than anything so I recently sat through this with my 8 and 4.5 year olds. The whole thing. It left me wishing I had the vasectomy 9 years ago. This was possibly the worst film I have ever seen. I could not recommend this to anyone. Ever. Somewhere on the ninth level is a guy named Adolf being forced to watch this over and over......shudder...

(2012-05-19 04:14)

My Friend Said 1 Star For This Movie is Unfair - I Watched It Again, It's Still 1 Star, And My Friend Won't Speak To Me

This review is from: Furry Vengeance (DVD) So, my friend has a review on here, too, and she felt that my original review was too short and not explanatory enough as to why I hated this movie, and my kid didn't think all that much of it. I said, Well, we'll watch it again with the five year old I'm sitting, and I'll get back to you. I'm back, and here are some of the problems with this movie - and I am not writing it as to what I like or dislike as an adult, I am writing about it as a parent. Big difference. Firstly, this is so badly written, and it makes the fatal mistake of kids' movies - as far as I am concerned - of making the characters and even the animals if not flat out mean, as characters you won't really care about. The animals are all very generic - there's a raccoon, a skunk, a bear and alot of birds with gastric difficulties, and they go after Brendon Fraser's character, Dan, because he works for a company that is going to take them off their preserve. The movie opens with the animals - live action, by the way, and they don't talk like in most films along this vein -, running a boorish, cigar smoking loudmouth over a cliff, car and all. The five year old watching this with my son and I the second time never cracked a smile, and asked about ten minutes later, "Did the guy in the car get out okay?" Either make it cartoonish humor, like "Roger Rabbitt" did, showing that the guy suffered a couple of lumps on the head, etc., or don't put it in. Okay, the movie then goes on for ninety minutes about these animals making Brendon's life miserable; they bang on his window all night, lock him in an outhouse, etc. etc., and it is greatly the fault of the writers, but none of it's funny. Brendon is a jerk, his son and wife are borderline cardboard, and everyone else in the movie is, yes, now the word 'mean' works. Even a young girl, thrown into the script because there was nothing else to come up with, is a smart-mouth for no discernable reason, and I'm lookin' at the clock, it's only halfway over, and neither my kid nor Heather are laughing. Other reviewers note the 'cheap' look - it's a right on the money description, and the other problem is that nothing seems to follow the thread of the movie from beginning to end. There's a couple of thought balloons dropped in over the animals' heads, and then that's it. I think that this would have been so much better had the animals spoke (but then again, they talked up a storm in MARMADUKE and I didn't care for that one, either), or even parodied their own behavior, again, like Roger Rabbitt. The only time both kids laughed was at the dream scene, and it was cute, clever and - about forty seconds long. And so, that's why I gave this movie one star, and if I didn't make that clear in my first review, my apologies. But I stand by that first review as a parent, and I didn't like the snippiness of the characters, the fact that everybody was either already a jerk or on their ways to being jerks, and I didn't like the fact that it didn't make it's target audience - little kids - laugh. At the very end of the movie, after the words "The End" are on the screen, there's a short clip of an owl getting his fortune told (Don't ask). The owl listens and then voices his opinion of the reading, in a human voice - Heather looked up at me and said, "Now why didn't they make all the other animals talk? That would have been funny!" Exactly. Now, Amy, will you pleeeaassse Facebook me?????

Louise Keller (2012-05-18 05:52)

Filled with pratfalls, slapstick and toilet humour, this furry nonsense with an eco-friendly message is harmless family fun.

Jim Lane (2012-05-17 15:26)

... unfunny trash ...

Wayne Malin (2012-05-17 00:44)

Poor Brendan Fraser! Reduced to THIS?

A real estate developer played by Brendan Fraser uproots wife BrookeShields and teenage son to a house in the middle of the woods to starta new development complex. This angers the local wildlife and theystart attacking and hurting Fraser in purportedly humorous ways.Terrible comedy. Poor Fraser is constantly being attacked andhumiliated by the animals that are lead by a murderous raccoon(seriously). All the jokes involve seeing Fraser in extreme pain andyelling or screaming. What is funny about seeing a man sprayed by abunch of skunks, stung in his face by bees, attacked by an eagle,attacked in a Porto Potty by a bear and getting bitten all over by theraccoon? In the "hilarious" climax a bunch of birds do their duty allover a crowd of people. The movie has a good message--don't destroy theforests--but it's just sick and unfunny. I'm trying understand whyFraser did this. Seriously is his career THAT bad???? The few thingsthat make it bearable are the special effects having the animals "talk"and do things animals can't do are flawless, some of Shields reactionsto Fraser are actually amusing and the closing credits which has thecast clowning around. When the best and funniest part of the film isthe closing credits there's something seriously wrong. Horrible comedy.Skip it.

Cфяn (2012-05-16 10:13)

Eco-terrorism

A truly horrible movie from beginning to end. It's only redeeming quality is that kids in the Kindergarten through 3rd grade age range may gets some laughs... Brendan Fraser should have known better. He'd have been better off if The Mummy had killed him.

Alex Little (2012-05-16 16:06)

As clever as a lead airship

Before you start reading the review, please note the title. It entailsquite a lot of significance to the film. First of all, it's the sort of film you might associate with thedirector being a young child, as it contains absolutely ridiculousanimal communication yet no plot, point or atmosphere whatsoever. Infact, the film probably didn't have a director. It was the sort of filmyou'd sit down to on a great Friday night with Doritos and Salsa Sauceand then you accidentally fall asleep during the movie at the mostexciting part. It's tiring to watch. Films that contain no plot give you headaches asyour brain desperately tries to process what's going on, but it can't.And as you should know (and also the creators of this film), brainpower requires energy. Food. So unless you're surrounded by thefattiest foods in existence, don't be surprised if you accidentallyfall asleep halfway through the film and to wake up with everyonestaring at you, red-faced and looking like they'd been forced to read"The Value of Pi to 750000 decimal places" (this is actually a book).The animal communication techniques used in the "film" (note the wayapostrophes are used...) are among the most unrealistic in existence.What it takes away from your life to watch a raccoon squeaking to somevariety of albino squirrel before unleashing a pine cone whicheventually sends a rock flying into a man's car for no particularreason and causing the man and his car to violently fall off a cliff toa death which turns out not to be a death after all; and then somehowhis car regenerates as if nothing ever happened; is there any teamworkon the plot of the film at all? It's unlikely.So let's go back to the title once again. It is, without doubt safe tosay that Furry Vengeance is an unimaginative, unrealistic and...wellit's an "un" for everything (except double negatives). The film trulyis a marvel of badness and uses the same intelligence levels asbuilding a large lead airship, except it's actually probably a lotworse. I heavily apologize (and hopefully the creators will agree) thatyou now know this film exists. Try to forget about it and you mightsurvive the next few hours.

(2012-05-16 07:24)

Hilarious

This review is from: Furry Vengeance (DVD) My wife had tears streaming down her face and her sides hurt from laughing so much. We enjoyed this so much that we sent a copy to my granddaughter for her 9th birthday.

capone666 (2012-05-15 07:16)

The Vidiot Reviews...

Furry VengeanceIf animals were capable of revenge, I'm pretty sure their first acts ofvengeance would be to stage a human rodeo, followed by the clubbing ofhuman babies.Fortunately, for younger viewers, the retribution perpetrated on thehumans in this family- comedy is jocular in nature.When Dan (Brendan Fraser) is put in charge of a proposed newsubdivision in the wilds of Oregon, he is quick to transport hisapprehensive wife (Brooke Shields) and their two disgruntled childrenout there to live.But his wife and kids aren't the only ones upset with the move.As the housing development encroaches on the forest, the local faunabegins to revolt.Equally infantile in the humour and acting departments, Furry Vengeanceis tailored-made tripe that will keep kids drooling well into theirformative years.What's more, this displacement dilemma could easily be quelled if onlywoodland creatures could apply for mortgage loans. (Red Light)

fratzinok (2012-05-14 12:42)

One of the worst movies I have ever seen!!!

Watching this made me think of 2 things: "How far you have fallenBrendan Fraser", and "Brooke, what were you thinking???!!!!" I lovefamily films and went in with an open mind but this was so bad!!! Thismovie made even Brooke Shields look like a bad actress, which she isnot! The jokes were so lame, the animal vengeance scenes ridiculous. Ican't even say enough of how bad this movie was!!!! I could see itappealing to very young children, that might find the animal humoramusing. But my kids' were 6 and 8 when we saw this and even theythought it was bad! I would have walked out mid way through, butfigured I would see it through since I had paid $20.00! I can usuallyfind some humor and enjoyment out of most family films but with thisone, I could not!!!!

psyrn (2012-05-09 10:52)

Pathetic

Reminds me of "Hoot" (2006). Theme: Evil humans trying to destroy "the environment". Plot: Ridiculous. Acting: Needless to say. This type of formula for a film just doesn't work, simply because it trys to teach a lesson grounded in eco-extremism, and uses tired slapstick routines which are not funny (to adults anyway). It fails miserably on all counts.

Lou Lumenick (2012-05-08 21:23)

Imagine Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a children's comedy, and you have a rough idea of the excruciatingly unfunny Furry Vengeance, which keeps slamming the audience over the head with a single joke.

Bruce Bennett (2012-05-08 17:54)

Fraser's career may be dying hard with this vengeance...

ihvkids (2012-05-08 00:52)

Not bad if you understand kids

My kids got a REAL kick out of all the pranks. This movie was made forkids and kids loved it so therefore it is a good movie. Were the jokesdumb? Yeah, but I have 12 and 13 year old boys and they absolutely LOVEto see this kind of slapstick. The problem with this generation issomething has to be dirty and raunchy to be considered funny. This movewas clean fun. and fun it was! Brendon Fraser did a great job of beingbeaten up by animals. You know most of the time he worked the animalswere not there so I think he did a great job of making it work. Whenyou watch it you see him in scenes with the animals and wonder "how didhe act that out when they weren't really there?" Good job to everyonethat worked on this movie... I especially liked all the extra's (hehe)