Furry Vengeance

Furry Vengeance is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Roger Kumble and written by Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert. It stars Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, and Ken Jeong with Dee Bradley Baker as the vocal effects for the animals. It was theatrically released on April 30, 2010.

Plot
In the wilderness of Oregon, a prairie dog screams after Riggs drives past and throws a cigar at it. This causes a raccoon to signal a mink to release a boulder that pushes Riggs' car to the edge of a cliff, teetering back and forth. After that, the raccoon throws the cigar back to Riggs, who yells "You're a bad raccoon!". The raccoon then blows the car down the cliff. Meanwhile, Riggs is heard calling his boss, and stating that he quits.

A real estate developer from Chicago named Dan Sanders is brought in as Riggs' replacement. He is given the task of turning the forest of Rocky Springs into a residential development by Lyman Enterprises' CEO Neal Lyman. This all transpires much to the objections of Dan's son, Tyler, and wife Tammy, who are unhappy in Rocky Springs, missing their lives in Chicago.

Unfortunately for Dan, the animals who are led by the raccoon refuse to sit back and watch their forest being destroyed. They manage to turn the tables on him by disturbing his progress, interrupting his meetings, and humiliating him. Upon receiving some research from his love interest Amber, Tyler tells his father that Rocky Springs is a forest reserve where he warns his father that "many have tried to settle Rocky Springs but they all failed." Following an attack by a grizzly bear that traps him in a tipped over portable toilet, Dan signs orders to have a drill sergeant capture and cage all the animals.

Meanwhile, Tammy is forced to plan an "eco-friendly" fair with a senile teacher Mrs. Martin at the high school which is sponsored by Lyman Enterprises, unaware of Lyman's plans to cut down the forest to build houses and a shopping mall "with a forest theme". Figuring this out, Dan decides to set the animals free. Once released, the raccoon and his friends immediately wreak havoc on the eco-fair, causing the guests and entertainers to flee while Mrs. Martin (who doesn't seem to give a care about what's going on around her) talks to an owl.

Lyman accidentally tranquilizes the sponsor for the construction, Mr. Gupta, after he attempted to break their deal. He flees into a worm tunnel with the animals in close pursuit. The animals begin attacking him as the bear drives a golf cart, pulling the tunnel away into the forest. After some convincing from Amber and Tammy, Tyler finally tells his father that he loves him.

Three months later, the forest is reclaimed as a nature preserve with Dan working as a park ranger. The poster promoting the forest preservation also states that anyone who violates the rules will be fined $1 million.

During the credits, the humans and animals dance to the Transcenders version of "Insane in the Brain."

Why It Reeks Vengeance (In a Bad Way)

 * 1) Unoriginal plot because it derives from the generic clichè "Fauna rebels against humanity because it has destroyed their habitat", which has already been done in many other better media than this film.
 * 2) *Pom Poko, an anime movie from 1994, has a similar plot in which the Tanukis in the film reacted against humans due to new house construction and logging, which makes this film a rip-off of the latter. It is worth noting that Pom Poko had heartful, charming and understandable characters, great environmental messages and a plot that, while contracting on the clash between man and nature, was not necessarily attached to it throughout the film and was well managed; Does this film have any similar qualities? No!
 * 3) **Other material is also being ripped off by films like Over the Hedge and Daddy Day Care.
 * 4) Although this is a family film, the humor is extremely unfunny, mean-spirited, nonsensical, and disgusting. Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser's character) gets tormented by the animals throughout the entire movie.
 * 5) * He gets flung into a bee's nest and sprayed on by skunks in his car. He also gets covered in feces after falling down a hill in a Porta-potty (thankfully, we don't see him covered in feces).
 * 6) The movie tries to portray the animals as the heroes, but they are constantly torturing Mr. Sanders which makes them impossible to root for.
 * 7) The movie is also a bad example of badly-written character potrayed as a Butt-Monkey
 * 8) Horrible acting, especially from Brendan Fraser, Ken Jeong and Brooke Shields.
 * 9) Due to the negative reviews this film got, it killed the careers of its cast and crew.
 * 10) *Director Roger Kumble (the director of the 1999 film Cruel Intentions) hurt his career so badly that he didn't direct another film until 2019.
 * 11) * Brendan Fraser only made small supporting roles in live-action and animated movies and TV series due to the failure of this film until he returned to Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move and was announced as part of the main cast of Darren Aronofsky's upcoming film The Whale and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon as well as Max Barbakow's and Legendary Pictures' Brothers.
 * 12) * Alice Drummond essentially retired from acting before her death on November 30, 2016.
 * 13) *Writer Michael Carnes hasn't written another mainstream film since this one.
 * 14) * It severely damaged Robert Simonds' career as a producer, as he was relegated to an executive producer.
 * 15) Overuse of irritating cartoon sound effects.
 * 16) Terrible CGI effects, especially on the animals.
 * 17) Lackluster and bad musical score from Edward Shearmur.
 * 18) Abysmal editing. For example, after Dan's face is swollen from the bee stings, the bee stings are gone in the very next scene.
 * 19) One of the DVD covers have a dumb "One of the best comedies ever" and '' Very Funny " review on it with five stars even though it was near universally panned by critics and audiences.
 * 20) The end credits are so unspeakably atrocious, depending on your view.
 * 21) Product Placement: Such as the Nintendo Wii.
 * 22) Lame direction by Roger Kumble.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It could be considered so bad it's good.
 * 2) The ending was a bit touching.

Reception
Upon its release, Furry Vengeance was universally panned by critics and audiences. The film currently holds a 7% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 2.53 out of 10 and a critics consensus that reads, "A thin premise stretched far beyond serviceable length, Furry Vengeance subjects Brendan Fraser - and the audience - to 92 minutes of abuse." It also holds a 23 out of 100 on Metacritic. It was the lowest-rated film of 2010, until the release of The Last Airbender, which scored a 5%.

Box Office
The film only grossed $36.2 million worldwide against a budget of $35 million. It was declared a box office disaster, despite it barely making its budget back.

Awards and Nominations
The film earned a Worst Picture nomination from the Houston Film Critics Society. It was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Actress and Supporting Actor.

Trivia

 * Brendan Fraser admitted that he was ashamed of being in this film.

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