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      The Animal

      2001, Comedy/Sci-fi, 1h 24m

      84 Reviews 100,000+ Ratings

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      While less offensive and more charming than recent gross-humored comedies, The Animal is still rather mediocre. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      Marvin (Rob Schneider) is a man who 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. Energized by his new parts, Marvin leaves his weakness behind and achieves instant fame as a supercop. Now a hero, life is going great for Marvin until his animal instincts start taking over his body at all the wrong times.

      • Rating: PG-13 (Some Crude/Sexual Humor)

      • Genre: Comedy, Sci-fi

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Luke Greenfield

      • Producer: Barry Bernardi, Todd Garner, Carr D'Angelo

      • Writer: Rob Schneider, Tom Brady

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $55.8M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Columbia Pictures

      • Production Co: Happy Madison Productions, Revolution Studios

      • Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital

      • Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

      Cast & Crew

      Rob Schneider
      Ed Asner
      Bob Rubin
      Rob Schneider
      Tom Brady
      Adam Sandler
      Jack Giarraputo
      Tom Brady
      Peter Collister
      Jeff Gourson
      Peck Prior
      Alan Au
      James Lapidus
      Gene Serdena
      Rose LaBrizzi
      Nanxy Tong-Heater
      Molly Allen
      P.R. Tooke

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      Audience Reviews for The Animal

      • Jul 12, 2012

        Occasionally funny, made no sense what-so-ever. The only thing worth watching was the acting of Schneider.

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      • Nov 29, 2011

        The Animal is yet another pointless Rob Schneider comedy that has maybe three actually funny scenes in the entire film. Unfortunately for Schneider, he's a terrible comedian. This film is awful and it's beyond me why this crap got made in the first place. I though that this film was awful, and is one of those comedies that really doesn't stand the test of time. This is the type of comedy film that has poorly constructed jokes and that it really doesn't do anything memorable. The film is just an excuse for Rob Schneider to have a "career" in films. This is so poorly constructed, poorly plotted, yet the idea was pretty interesting. If the script would have been reworked and the jokes better though out, and with a different lead, this might have been a good film. But this film ends up being a big waste of time, and get tiresome after a while. The film rides on one joke practically for the entire length of the film, and it just doesn't cut it. I think that this film should never have been made, and looking back ten years since this crap was made, there have been far better comedies than this. The Animal is one of those comedies that are meant for people who don't want intellectuality to their comedy, it's a mindless one joke film that is so bad, and it can easily be regarded as one of the worst comedies ever made. Even the first two Pauly Shore outings (Encino Man, and Son in Law) brought more laughter than this, and that says something about this train wreck of a film.

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      • Sep 13, 2011

        I laughed a lot, and that's the best I can say about this. It's sporadically entertaining, but still lacks what most Happy Madison films do; a decent script.

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      • Jun 11, 2011

        This movie is about a guy who gets his organs replaced with animal organs, and thus begins to act like an animal. Is that comedy or just stupidity? Well Rob Schnieder is in it. I think Adam Sandler was involved in the production. I guess that answers my own question.

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