The Animal Reviews
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Certainly reeks like something produced from a squatting position.
| Original Score: 0.5/5
The Animal is never more nor less than stupid, but stupid in ways that deliver goofiness rather than rampant humiliation.
Should you consider getting near it, understand that it doesn't smell so good.
Anyone not committed to cheap crude humor may find The Animal more creepy than funny.
A silly, stupid story with a one-joke comic premise.
Schneider manages to make it all more palatable than nauseating, genial rather than an affront to good taste.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
If I had a mob, I'd send it after the yo-yos at Columbia Pictures who gave this pu-pu platter the green light.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This may be giving Schneider too much credit, but the lad has found a way to temporarily halt the de-evolution of the silly comedy.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
A lunkheaded, sorta gross-out comedy that manages to be likeable and funny.
Next to Joe Dirt, The Animal is tolerably amusing.
There's a whole lot of stuff like The Animal to the point that there's no longer anything outrageous about its outrageousness.
OK lowbrow comedy about a man given superpowers by animal organ transplants.
| Original Score: 2/4
Its relative modesty lends Mr. Schneider's deft, ingenuous performance an unexpected glow of innocence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
An outrageous and imaginative summer comedy aimed primarily at young males, but it is often so funny that it may well connect to a broader audience.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Neither as bad as it might be nor as entertaining as it should be.
A good natured comedy of hormonally charged, down in the mud slapstick.
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| Original Score: B-
While it's true that Colleen gets her backside slapped, that her face is licked by Rob Schneider and that he urinates under her chair as a way of marking his territory, it's no worse than what he does to the audience.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Its inability to muster more laughs than groans will have even Schneider's diehard fans longing for the merely awful Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.
Neither one for the dogs nor the cat's pajamas.
