The Animal

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The Animal

DVD cover for The Animal
Directed by Luke Greenfield
Produced by Barry Bernardi
Carr D'Angelo
Todd Garner
Written by Tom Brady
Rob Schneider
Starring Rob Schneider
Colleen Haskell
John C. McGinley
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) 2001
Running time 84 min
Language English
IMDb profile

The Animal is a 2001 comedy film, directed by Luke Greenfield. It stars Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, Edward Asner, and John C. McGinley.

Norm MacDonald and executive producer Adam Sandler make cameo appearances.

Tagline: He wasn't much of a man... Now he's not much of an animal.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Marvin Mange (played by Schneider) has had a lifelong dream to become a police officer. After failing the training course yet again, he is critically injured when his car goes over a cliff. A deranged scientist rescues him and replaces Marvin's damaged organs with those of various animals.

Unknown to Marvin, his new parts enhance his abilities, and he is soon regarded as a hero. However, he starts to lose control of his instincts, and when people start getting attacked by an unknown creature during the night, Marvin suspects that he is the one responsible.

[edit] Controversy

Despite receiving mixed critical reaction, one supporter of the film at the time of its release was film critic David Manning who gave the film critical praise. In late 2001, however, Manning was revealed to be fictitious, created by Sony to fake publicity for the film. At the time, Sony claimed that the error was due to a layout artist who entered 'dummy text' into print advertisements during their design, which was accidentally never replaced with real text. It could have been a plausible argument, considering the film had so few good reviews to find quotes with which to replace the fake text.

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[edit] Soundtrack

Track listing for The Animal soundtrack:

  1. No Matter What (7:27) A
  2. It's On (Party Time) (8:04) Ali Dee
  3. Got 2 B Luv (7:05) Bottlefly
  4. Salt Bag Spil (4:40) Citizen King
  5. My Projects (9:42) Coo Coo Cal
  6. Let's Get It On (10:32) Marvin Gaye
  7. The Amazing Dolphin Bay (5:40) Minus 5
  8. Hey Baby (10:34) Mocean Worker
  9. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) (17:40) Quad City DJ's
  10. Hardest Way Possible (12:16) Rustic Overtones
  11. Wild Thing (10:05) Tone-Loc
  12. Hard Living (8:28) Wailing Souls

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