everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Brilliant and touching

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Remember this is a film for children. My 8 year old daughter and her friends think it is hilarious. That is worth a 10 star review in itself. As a parent you will realise the benefits of having over an hour of peace while your children cackle at a film. If you're watching it as an adult you'll probably be disappointed but, again, if you have children go for it. Brook Shields puts in a reasonably good comedy performance and Brendan Fraser is his usual self (strange that this film is credited as one of the things that set his career back). The animals are well animated and the scenes of mild violence seem to be the parts the children like the best.

Picture Doctor Doolittle 2 with Eddie Murphy. Now picture the movie without any funny animal dialogue. Now replace all the funny human characters with painfully boring characters. Now amp up the hackneyed, overused plot to be even more cliché. Now walk out of the theater angry and demanding your money back. You've just seen Furry Vengeance. I thought the Egyptian plagues ended with the death of the first born son, so what it the explanation for this garbage? For those of you who think I'm being cruel, let me recap the plot. Some guy wants to tear down a forest, and the animals play pranks on him. That's it. Nothing else. For over an hour. Ugh. Well, as with all things, there is a bright side. Brendan Fraser CAN'T star in a worse film. Once you've hit rock bottom, (and I'm pretty sure this hits the bedrock), there's no place to go but up. The worst is over. At least, until someone tries to make a sequel.. duh duh duuuunnnnn!

At the end credits, I was still trying to get the plot.Take the concept from 'Over the Hedge' - brilliant! Take Brendan Fraser, big name from several really good action films. Good idea, but this isn't an action film. Add several plot elements and then forget to use them. Ah. Oops.For some reason, my teenage kids loved this. But then they've never seen the slapstick of Laurel and Hardy.If the CGI was closer to 'Over the Hedge', or the animals talked, rather than those ridiculous thought bubbles, this could have been so much better. If the plot about the new family in town, making connections along the way, had been explored, and the really embarrassing sub plot about the old teacher with a poor memory had been scratched, it would have been far better. The strange sub plot about the deranged forest ranger was even more of a waste of space. He just didn't fit in.Oh, and if you're going to use a CEO character who looks Chinese, and seems to come across as that, PLEASE don't give him a western name - either a Hong Kong Chinese or a straight Chinese one. I'm sure young kids will love this, as its all about the series of slapstick scenes that don't need to hang together with a plot.Making a great slapstick though, you need to learn the techniques of the masters (L&H). Never reuse a joke. Its funny the first time, and after that makes it look like you've run out of ideas. And, make the slapstick work with the plot, not the other way around !

I like Brendan Fraser. I really do. I think he does best when he's doing comedies like "Bedazzled" or family fare like "Journey To The Center Of The Earth." "Furry Vengeance" is good comedy to spread its "Get Green" message, and it does it while being funny. Fraser plays a contractor living in the housing development he is building near the woods of a forest preserve, and the animals have learned his bosses want to devastate the forest for housing tracts. He mugs, grimaces and reacts to the wild antics going on as he surrenders his body to more slapstick again and again. One of the odd things about this movie is that the animals, ranging from a raccoon, some skunks, beavers and a bear among others, act and think like humans; just how and why is never resolved. The bulk of the movie is the amount of abuse and harassment Fraser gets from these furry woodland creatures and his resulting psychosis when he realizes the animals seem to have a conspiracy against him, but by then, they've infested his house and violated his car. Brooke Shields plays his wife oblivious to the action, and his son and girl friend are additional witnesses to his spiraling descent into hysteria. It's a really funny movie once you learn to ignore the ridiculous leaps in logic and science, but you really start to cheer the animals on as they fight together in wild and creative scenarios to defend their homes. There's a message in the movie that isn't forced; it's much more simple than coerced, and the closing montage of movie parodies is a lot of fun to watch as well.