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Animal, The
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Animal, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 43 Metascore out of 100
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5.2 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for some crude and sexual humor

Starring Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Michael Caton, Guy Torry, Louis Lombardi, and Edward Asner

Small, wimpy Marvin (Schneider) doesn't have what it takes to fulfill his lifelong dream to be a cop. But his luck changes when he's critically injured in a car accident, and a deranged scientist secretly uses animal organs to rebuild him. (Revolution Studios)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Tom Brady (also story)
Rob Schneider
 
DIRECTED BY: Luke Greenfield  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: October 30, 2001 
Video: October 30, 2001 
Theatrical: June 1, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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80
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An outrageous and imaginative summer comedy.
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80
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Transcendently dumb but very funny comedy.
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70
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Genial rather than an affront to good taste. It's also pretty darn funny.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
While a good deal funnier than ''Deuce Bigelow,'' is still destined to get branded, if not condemned, as ''dumb.''
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63
USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
Schneider, with his cherub curls and scrawny physique, adopts a pussycat persona that engenders goodwill.
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60
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
If The Animal -- co-written by Schneider and Tom Brady -- never quite gets fired up, at least it chugs along efficiently on its mildly inspired ridiculousness.
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60
Variety Robert Koehler
A sweethearted trifle.
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50
Slate David Edelstein
A perfectly decent second-banana, Rob Schneider, has been over-optimistically elevated to the top of the bunch.
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50
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Mild gross-out comedy integrates a non sequitur -- a running joke made by a sidekick -- into the plot, providing some payoff.
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50
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Isn't quite up to the comic standard of Rob Schneider's 1999 hit "Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo."
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50
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Judging by the audience reaction -- there is apparently something funny about the idea of a man trying to hump a goat in heat.
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40
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
If this adds up to a full-fledged feature film, I'm a monkey's uncle.
40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Hardly a comic masterpiece -- the jokes are awfully broad and obvious -- but I couldn't help feeling relieved at the film's absence of malice.
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40
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
The Animal is tailor-made for last-resort Friday-night rentals.
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40
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The movie's selling point is Schneider acting goofy, chewing on worms, making goo-goo eyes at a she-goat and licking his private parts.
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40
Washington Post Megan Rosenfeld
Let's face it, some people find butt and bathroom comedy funny. And some don't.
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40
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
The worst thing about The Animal -- is how frequently it becomes boring.
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40
New Times (L.A.) Luke Y. Thompson
A film you can dump your kids off at the mall to see in order to get peace and quiet for an hour and a half.
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25
Boston Globe Larry Worth
Through it all, Rob Schneider comes off as a jackass in The Animal.
25
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Has amusing bits of social satire, but they're crowded out of the stable by lots of bathroom and barnyard humor.
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20
Film.com Mary Brennan
It's just not funny.
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10
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Reeks like something produced from a squatting position.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Nasr gave it a6:
6 would be fair...its got its moments..the actress is fine...but rob schneider shudnt have been given hair on his ass!!...lolz...anywayz the low profile kinda feel to the characters and some other little things save it from being entirely gross!

Chris Z. gave it a 10:
Funny in a weird way good movie and i need some more pics cuz im drawing a transition with ROb shcneider turning into a stapeler.

Rach B. gave it a 10:
This movie was funny as hell. Note to Janine D who was offended by the Filipino comment: Rob Schneider is actually part Filipino.

Sunny S. gave it a 2:
Not a really good example of the comedy genre. The actors were ok but the plot was awful. This particular script could have had quite a bit of potential to be somewhat mediocre but as we can see it lacks any real punchlines, good visuals, stunts or subplots. The film tries to emphasise on the zero to hero transition of the lead character (Rob Schneider) but one couldn't care. As for the comedy it is mainly Rob Schneider miming to some animal sound effects which was ok the 1st time you see it but is heavily overused in the film which makes you wonder wether you could've wrote a better script. To sumerise it, should one find the DVD at any retailer, it comes in handy under the leg of a rocking table.

Tom L. gave it a 4:
Cheap and Predictable.

Brad H. gave it a 6:
Stupid, Yes. But it had some really funny moments. And it's not like I was expecting "Das Boot."

Maxine R. gave it a 6:
A lot of funny jokes! But a bad ending.

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