The Animal

Plot synopsis:
Marvin Mange (Rob Schneider) is an awkward, clumsy nice-guy who dreams of being a police officer like his dad was. He continuously attempts to pass the physical test to become a full-fledged police officer, but despite his repeated attempts, he is unable finish the obstacle course. Marvin gets constantly mistreated by heartless and sleazy Sgt. Sisk (John C. McGinley). He works in the police station as an evidence clerk.
One day, while alone at the station, he receives a robbery call. With no other officers responding to the call, he attempts to take it himself, but ends up driving off the road, tumbling down a mountain and seriously injuring himself. When the car finally comes to a stop, he passes out.
Days later, Marvin returns to his normal life with no memory of what had happened. Suddenly, he's full of life. He can outrun horses, mean dogs are now scared of him, and he does not need his asthma medicine. He thinks it is due to his late-night TV purchase of "Badger Milk", which is guaranteed in the ads to make him stronger.
One day at the park, Marvin meets Rianna (Colleen Haskell) while she's out walking dogs. His animal-like tendencies are slowly taking him over. When a frisbee is thrown in his direction, he cannot control himself, and he jumps to catch it in his mouth.
He goes to the airport to talk to his friend, Miles the security guard (Guy Torry) about his problem. While there, Marvin sniffs out a man trying to hide heroin in his rectum. For uncovering a drug smuggler, Marvin is declared a hero and is made a full-fledged police officer.
As days go by, Marvin's animal instincts are becoming stronger. He often wakes up in strange places, and subsequently, hears about animal attacks that occurred in the middle of the night. Because of these attacks, Dr. Wilder believes that Marvin is out of control. The mad scientist confronts him, takes him to his laboratory, and explains about the grafts and transplants that saved and changed Marvin's life, and gave him remarkable animal powers with certain problem side effects.
Later at a party thrown by the Mayor (Scott Wilson) Marvin chases after a cat and destroys everything around him and is fired on the spot. During his reprimand, he hears something, jumps into the nearby lake and rescues the mayor's son using powers derived from a sea lion and a dolphin. He is swiftly reinstated.
Chief Wilson (Ed Asner) questions Marvin about the late-night attacks on farm animals, because one of witnesses made a police sketch—and it looks like Marvin.
Rianna goes to Marvin's house, where he has barricaded himself inside. They spend the night together, but Marvin wants to be tied up so he cannot hurt anyone anymore. In the morning, he finds himself untied, courtesy of Rianna. Suddenly, the police show up outside. Another attack had happened that night, and the police have come for Marvin. Rianna convinces him to run.
Marvin escapes to the woods, where a huge chase ensues. The police have organized an angry mob into a search party to catch Marvin. While running through the woods, Marvin finds Dr. Wilder. The scientist tells him that there was another "patient" of his that is out of control, and he is in the woods looking for it.
Sergeant Sisk confronts Marvin, and is about to shoot him. Suddenly, the other "animal" jumps from a tree and attacks sisk. The beast is Rianna. Now, the crowd finds them both together but Miles is there, and takes the blame for everything. He has been claiming that there is reverse discrimination with him since he's black, and that no one wants to hold him accountable for anything. Sure enough, once the mob thinks a black man was responsible, they don't care anymore, and leave.
Marvin and Rianna get married, and have a litter of children that each look like Marvin. While watching television, they see Dr. Wilder win the Nobel Prize. He says he owes it all to his fiancée, who is the same woman from the Badger Milk commercial. When she turns around to kiss him, there are large scars shown on her back, implying that Wilder performed the experiment on her as well.

Tags: humor, stupid

Review:
I enjoyed Deuce Bigalow, and all (except for Big Daddy) of Adam Sandler's movies.
So I basically was expecting some (Ok, a lot) of low-brow humor, a decent plot to keep rolling through, and to laugh throughout the movie.
Rob Schneider, as "Marvin," lays his goofy Deuce Bigelow-type character on us, trying to get the pretty girl "Rianna" (Colleen Haskell).
I really thought this would be a stupid film but Schneider's animal imitations are hilarious and, overall, this a very fast-moving, silly-but-lots of laughs film..
I love Duece Bigalow and I liked this one even more....I took my Mom and she is now a big Rob Schneider fan.
Life is going great for Marvin until his the animals in his body start taking over his body and makes him do the strangest things like falling in love with animals and eating from bins.
The Animal is produced by the brilliant Adam Sandler, who also has a really funny cameo as a Townie in this movie, which stars Rob Schneider, who also wrote the screenplay here.
I liked this movie, even though I feel the trailer made it seem more funny than it actually is.
Still, its enjoyable, and has the type of unbelievable humor that I like, that goofy off-the-wall ingredient that really good comedies have.
Not only is Colleen Haskell a pretty good actress, but Rob Schneider was even funnier than in Deuce!!!
The Animal (2001)5 word summary Loser cop gets animal powerNow I don't wanna sit here and lie and say this is a good movie, because its not, and it deserves the low ratings that it has.
If you like Rob Schneider films such as Deuce Bigalow, The Hot Chick, Benchwarmers, then most likely you will enjoy this film, if you hated those films you will definitely hate this one because it is probably the worst out of those four.
So again it does have some good, cheap jokes and is humorous at times as long as you can look past the bad acting.
The question of police brutality in our society is dealt with on a Ciceronian level as older policemen are cast as blood mongrels and middle aged police officers are cast as muscle headed steroid-freaks -- a casting delight surprise from Office Space is in store for educated viewers.A dramatic tale from start to end, even the farm animals are in the winner's circle when the time come to roll the credits.
Much like his previous movie "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalow," "The Animal" has little artistic merit.
Of course, there many other jokes that aer too silly (and sometimes very disgusting), but overall, this movie is a good and highly entertaining one.
Being a big fan of Rob Schneider had me wanting to go to this movie from the time I first heard about it.
Colleen Haskell plays his love interest in the movie, and she comes off as the sweet, innocent she is supposed to be.
Nothing more, nothing less.Rob Schneider is in fact a really cool funny guy, he proved that with Deuce Bigalow, SNL and Men Behaving Badly.Some girls might not like his humor, but that's up to them.If you're cool, you love this movie, just like other Sandler/Schneider stuff..
And now every single star of SNL just has to have thier own movie.Aside from the not-so-good DEUCE BIGALOW: MALE GIGOLO, this is Schneider's big moment.
Director Luke Greenfield was also pretty unexperienced, as some of his only other film credits are attributed to a 'Swimsuit' video made for Sports Illustrated, I think.Edward Asner (the guy from HARD RAIN) was hardly in the movie at all.
Just like Deuce Bigalow before it, The Animal is a well-made, well-acted, and very funny film.
Best part is it doesn't feel like someone took the teeth out of it just to make it a PG-13, unlike two other movies recently released by two of Schneider's former SNL castmates..
I watched this movie over TV a few days ago and it did make me evoke a few laughs.Marvin is a human fitted by animal parts by a scientists.
"I'VE eaten out of the garbage, too..."  (Not THE greatest line, I'll admit, but Ed Asner gets points for delivering it in an inspired way.)  And there's the guy who asks a series of questions that reveal the shy delight and eagerness he feels to be part of a mob.I didn't know, before reading other people's comments, that Colleen Haskell was a star of one of those schlocky reality TV shows and that this was her first acting role; people who DID know this, it seemed, noticed all manner of deficiencies in her performance that simply weren't there.
This movie is not quite that good, but it starts to showcase Rob Schneider as truly one of America's best hopes for comedy superstardom (like Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy before him).
See it many times and I'm sure you will agree, Rob is the next big thing in Hollywood comedic film.
The gags are spread throughout the movie, so you'll be laughing the whole time you're watching.
This is a great movie that deserves to be seen by anyone who loves comedies.
After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.To start, I am a pretty big fan of Rob Schneider and his competitor Adam Sandler.
In the Animal, frankly I wasn't expecting the best movie ever.
I expected a film with great laughs and a nice movie to chill back to and enjoy the little things.
Marvin Mange (SNL's alumnus, the very talented comedian/actor Rob Schneider) has an automobile accident which, under normal circumstances, would have surely killed him.
I didn't expect too much from the Rianna character (the fledgling actress coming straight out of the real-life television series "Survivor"), and I was nevertheless enchanted by her sincere/competent acting contributions.There are the occasional (and repetitive) nods to the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and the horror film "An American Werewolf in London" (among other classics), and the script is never too broadly (or desperately) 'painted' to escape proper and hilarious audience identification.
Adam Sandler and Norman MacDonald play mob townies, the proper 'village idiot' cameos one expects to see in truly funny SNL comedy movies such as this.
Predictable with some funny scenes and basically a good kids' movie..
The movie is about Marvin, a lonely nerd who is not great at his job at the Police Station who, after a car crash gets animal parts making him very skilled.
Overall this movie is funny and is a must watch for Rob Schneider fans and I personally think that if they need to make sequels they need to make a sequel of this movie.
I'm probably not the first person to say that I don't like Rob Schneider, the star from dreadful films such as "Duce Bigalow" and "The Hot Chick".
But "The Animal" is actually a pretty funny but also very dumb movie.Schnider's character get's badly hurt in an accident so a nice doctor puts organs from animals in him, in order to make him survive.
Schneider get's a lot of odd supernatural talents from the organs and starts to act very strange, but his way of helping people also makes him very popular.This movie is filled with the usual slapstick jokes but for some reason it does actually work.
The first half hour alone has more genuine, hearty laughs than most "average" comedies put together; in the second half the hilarity slows down a bit, but the movie still comes up with a bang of an unpredictable ending.
This may a stupid movie, but I laughed A LOT while watching it (it's not right to lie about such things).
It leaves you with a taste of the old classic Rob Schiender and Adam Sandler gross out comedies that rocked your world B, 7/10, **1/2 out of ****.
When I saw previews for "The Animal" I expected another slapstick, crude humorish SNL like movie.
Whenever I see Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider or David Spade in a movie preview I always know it's going to be like what I said above.
Now movies like Joe Dirt and Happy Gilmore I give 2 and a half stars usually, because the plot suffers as well as the comedy.
Rob Schneider was really hilarious and made himself really act like an animal.
We got exactly what we expected, and had a good time at it.There were quite a few parts which were just very funny, some gross, some that left me scratching my head.
The movie really sounds good for it's plot, scripts, characters and, even for it's soundtrack which have fit to create a better chemistry in making a wacky and funniest picture of the year.
Combine with the talent of soft speaking, amateur but promising Coleen Haskell of the Survivor fame ( well it was her film debut ), the movie astoundingly absorbs all the merits that a comedy picture could ever had.
The movie has Rob Schneider cast as Marvin, a not-so-lucky-guy who was deprived of all wits and agility to pursue his ambition of becoming a law enforcer.
Also in the cast are John C.McGinley, Cloris Leachman and cameos for funny men Norm Macdonald and Adam Sandler.This movie manages not to demean or gross out anyone.
Rob Schneider has become one of the best comics in hollywood and The Animal was as funny as a movie can be.
The Animal stars Rob Schneider who in the movie gets the antics going as he becomes an animal filled with many different animal organs (I counted dolphin, elephant, beaver, horse, dog, goat, cat, cheetah and possibly a bear somewhere among many).
I have been a big Rob Schneider fan ever since his SNL days, so that was one reason I went to see this movie.
When l watched this comedy for first time in 2003 on cable TV l'd rated 7/10 now revisiting movies l pick up Animal and after 14 years l'd change and didn't think the movie like before....Animal is a creative premise to a good comedy basically because this an original story but all others situations and the overkill of Schneider's action really spoiled the movie Apart Edward Asner the cast didn't help to much some cameo appearances is very funny like Norm MacDonald (which l like his work) as man with torch,so this movie is not bad and not so good,but different it really is!!!.
My favorite line comes at the end, spoken by Norm McDonald, "I'm not going to be part of mob who kills a black guy."Another great movie from Happy Madison..
Rob Schneider is outstanding, as is the rest of the cast, acting out some of the most ridiculous situations I've ever seen in movies.
There are lots of good laugh scenes, and the plot keeps moving at a fast enough pace.There were some cute quirks in the story line itself that made the movie and characters even more enjoyable, despite the rest of the plot being fairly predictable.Michael Caton, who played the mad animal doctor, was absolutely hilarious.
Rob Schneider does a really good portrayal of Marvin, the goofy wannabe police officer whose life is saved by getting rebuilt with animal parts after a big accident.
So just leave your brain at the door and come in and just enjoy this funny, stupid movie.Rob Schneider is, as always funny.
Though, once the movie really starts, strap yourself down, and get ready for some tummy exercises, as you'll be laughing none stop.On DVD, you can see the deleted scenes, and yes i agree that what they deleted was probably too much, and not that hilarious..The movie has the typical, love interest, bad guy, and interesting plot towards the end.There is also the Adam Sandler part which is interesting, as there is a role reversal to a previous film.Keep on laughing.Great movie from my personal experience, and from two other friends...so funny we've watched its three times already.
Rob Schneider is great in this movie.
So watch it for the monkey style Rob Schneider but it is definitely not one of the best comedies ever or one of the best movies that Schneider appears in.
nothing like the best comedy you'll see this year but it has some funny moments and you should enjoy without it taxing your brain.
The low point in the movie and turned my smile into a frown was when the 'i'm such a cool funny guy' norm macdonald popped up, his 45 seconds were far too much, just 5 seconds more and it would have knocked 3 stars off my rating.
I sat down prepared to watch another lamebrain, screwball comedy starring Rob Schneider, from the Adam Sandler production company that makes movies for old "SNL" pals who were on the show at the same time he was.
The movie was just what I expected from Sandler and Schneider.
for a while now with his work on SNL and appearances in adam sandler movies and i especially loved his work in Deuce Bigalow, so i thought this would be a maybe good as Deuce or even better.Well i was part-right.The Animal had its moments, a couple good laughs here and there, i especially loved Norm Macdonald's small cameo role and adam sandlers little cameo as the "u can do it" man.
All in all i would go with Deuce Bigalow over the animal but its up to u, if u want a low-brow, SNL type comedy i would go for it.5 out of 10 stars.
Rob schneider is a good actor but he should not do movies like this.
That's two strikes Schneider, DEUCE BIGALOW and now ANIMAL, two lame, unfunny, unoriginal, poorly made 'comedies'.
Take it from a Rob Schneider fan, this is movie stinks like a skunk.
I have been a big Rob Schneider fan up until this movie.It was totally juvenile.
My wife who likes him too said "What was he thinking, who would want to see his next movie?".Colleen Haskell of Survivor fans should be stranded on a deserted island.
But if you are over let's say 20 don't waste your time.Come on Rob, please make a good movie.
You can be very funny but this movie stinks and I am mad at you for taking my $8 and wasting an hour and a half of my time.
This movie would have been perfect for Rob Schneider...it's just his type of comedy, but it just sort of runs flat.
Yes. Just what I expected from a movie titled "The Animal" starring Rob Schneider.
The Animal is really just nothing special at all, Rob Schneider normally isn't known for the best work in all Hollywood, his most notable would have to be Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and his cameo work with in Happy Madison movies.
Don't get me wrong because this movie does have it's moments that are funny and it will deliver some decent, yet small laughs.
By the end I felt like I was watching the same 15 minutes of movie over and over again.
The first time that I saw Rob Schneider try to carry a movie, it was in Deuce Bigalow.
I'll give Schneider some props for Deuce but the movie really wouldn't have been as funny as it is w/o the hilarious characters that steal the show from Deuce.
But in The Animal, the biggest problem with the movie was that there was no Eddie Griffin (just like Next Friday needed Chris Tucker).In The Animal, Schneider does have another black sidekick but he's just not as funny as E.G. That Survivor chick is alright, she's pretty cute, but she's still not much of an actress.
The movie relies way too much on Schneider for its laughs and helps him out by making him into The Animal so Schneider can get some by acting like a horny goat or a hungry seal.
This must have been Rob Schneider's line of thinking when he made semi-successful Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and followed it with The Animal.
This movie is slightly more likable than other Schneider-starring flicks (such as another lame same-plot follow-up The Hot Chick), but it almost feels like they want audiences to hate it by casting a reality TV star as the romantic lead (Colleen Haskell from "Survivor") and inserting a cameo by Norm MacDonald.
However, I can easily say that he is the best person to play the loser.(See his part in Ally Mcbeal, quite funny actually).There are some good parts in the movie such as his flirting with the goat.
Rob Schneider is definitely one enormously talented individual and while his acting was fine in this, it just seemed like a real waste for him to star in.
I saw an interview with Rob Schneider (who plays the lead character, Marvin Mange, in this film.) He said in it that he wanted to emphasize physical comedy here so much that even if you had the volume turned off you'd be laughing at this movie.
There's a brief cameo at the end by Adam Sandler (who also served as Executive Producer of this.)Anyway, I chuckled twice: Mange playing with his squeaky toys in the police car, and the scene Schneider has with Haskell and the orangutan - the orangutan has more acting talent!
Rob Schneider acting like an animal isn't something I would pay to see.
It looked funny, but the bottom line: DON'T WASTE YOU'RE PRECIOUS TIME ON SUCH A RIDICULOUS AND STUPID MOVIE.I was wondering when it was going to end, even though it is a short movie.
There are two funny parts in the whole movie.
You are highly advised to watch this movie if you want to commit suicide but lack in your intent.The acting of Rob Schneider is perfect but the storyline has so much wrong in it that he can't make it up for that with even his best efforts.