ga('send', 'pageview'); The same cunning, super-smart woodland animals that forced Riggs to quit the project, though, set their sights on driving Dan crazy. Neal picks up a gun and intends to shoot the lead raccoon, but Dan intervenes and Neal accidentally shoots his Indian business partner with a tranquilizer dart. I'd like to believe that Wallace Shawn, playing a clueless shrink in a sweater vest, was pasted into the movie, but I'm afraid he got there of his own volition.). A laborer briefly wields a turned-on chainsaw in a reckless manner, forcing Dan to dodge him. Leech. Topics ToTalk About ga('create', 'UA-8457300-1', 'screenit.com'); Dan tries to bribe Tyler and buy his happiness with a brand-new Wii video-game console. Tammy think his tales of animal torture are lunacy and his boss, Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong, "The Hangover"), isn't amused by his antics either. ROB RIGGLE plays Dan's predecessor at the construction site, who the animals attack in a pre-title sequence. After nearly running over a raccoon with his SUV, Dan's airbag suddenly deploys and causes him to spill hot coffee all over himself. Directed by Roger Kumble. Dan turns on his front yard's sprinkler system to shoo away a squirrel. Smoking Guns/Weapons (2010) (Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields) (PG) In the Oregon wilderness, a real-estate developer's new housing subdivision faces a unique group of protestors: local woodland creatures who don't want their homes disturbed. Dan has a nightmare in which woodland animals ransack his house. As a teacher at the local high school, she is asked to head up the current year's forest festival in celebration of nature. Neal even extends Dan's time commitment on the project from one year to three years. Tyler joins Amber's protest at the forest festival, even though he knows this will embarrass his father in front of his boss. Mild Dan lifts his butt and mimics a skunk spraying his stink. Furry Vengeance is billed as a comedy, but I doubt it'll make you laugh. Dan says he must remove a leech "from my no-no zone." He carries out some fairly corrupt orders from his boss that threaten animals and nature. Kumble also helmed College Road Trip, that G-rated Disney number starring Martin Lawrence as a nudgy dad who accompanies his daughter on college visits. m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) Yum!" A crazed Dan rips a stuffed animal in half. He’s a bit like Disney’s Dean Jones, but with much more physical humor. Dan turns on his front yard's sprinkler system to shoo away a squirrel. ( Log Out /  SEX/NUDITY "Son of a. . Tyler shows Dan a photo of a man being attacked by a snake (not graphic) as sarcastic proof of how great nature is. GUNS/WEAPONS With tomato juice in his eyes, Dan accidentally dons one of Tammy's bras thinking it's a towel and some nearby construction workers see this through a window from across the street and hoot and whistle. He eventually mumbles it. The rationale behind all the flagrant Fraser humiliation is an uprising of small but vindictive woodland fauna in an undisclosed patch of Oregon — some verdant place that looks like it might be Massachusetts, probably because it is. (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ "That's gross," "Check out, Mr. Pee-Pee Pants," "I need to remove a leech from my no-no zone," "I have to deal with these eco-hypocrites," "Oh jeez!" Neal gives Dan 10 seconds to accept a work assignment that will extend his stay in Oregon for three more years or risk being fired. Riggs appears to be smoking a cigar while driving. A raccoon unplugs a motorized treadmill that Dan is running on, causing him to fall forward and crash hard into a flat-screen TV that then is ripped from the wall. Tyler yells at his father after he finds the animals of the forest have all been caged up and Dan signed the order to do so. Still, the film, written by Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert ("Mr. Woodcock"), is just a series of puerile visual gags punctuated by obvious eco preaching and painful left field attempts at humor (every appearance by Toby Huss (TV's "Reno 911!") The stogie lands in the nearby woods and briefly causes some leaves to smolder. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Tyler just lets out a scream in the direction of his father to express his frustration with their living arrangement. On the same stretch of road later in the film, the lead raccoon challenges Dan by not moving from the road. Subscribe now for monthly editions, awards season weeklies, access to the Screen International archive and supplements including Stars of Tomorrow and World of Locations. When real estate developer Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser) tries to build a new housing subdivision in the pristine woods of Oregon, the critters who live there decide to take a stand and Sanders is in for a heaping serving of "Furry Vengeance.". Tyler displays a generally bad attitude towards his dad and the small forest town he has moved him and his mom to for most of the film's first half until he meets Amber. Neal not only does not return the wave, he puts the shade down over his window to shut the sight of Dan out completely. Between this and his last movie, College Road Trip, director Kumble has abandoned any attempts at nuance, instead embracing flatly shot set piece histrionics. He subsequently demonstrates the weapon by shooting an apple. The animals also hide all of Dan's clothes, forcing him to wear a pink sweat suit belonging to Tammy to an important business meeting. As it teeters on this edge, a raccoon comes along and blows it over sending the man inside comically screaming to his demise. Skunks spray Dan multiple times with a gas-like vapor from their tails. Dan sets a number of booby traps around his yard to try and trap the various critters terrorizing him. When Dan returns home from being missing for several hours, he first calls his boss rather than embracing Tammy. Tammy works with an elderly teacher at the local school, who the movie holds up as a senior-citizen stereotype and a source of ridicule for her senile, rambling ways. A ferret seen on a roof was placed on the roof of a mock house (like a dog house) and cued. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE He quits and in steps Dan, who has agreed to live in a rural model home for a year, transplanting his citified wife Tammy (Brooke Shields, looking like she's spent too much time in a tanning booth) and unappreciative teen Tyler (Matt Prokop).