The Animal (2001)
Directed by Luke Greenfield
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, Marvin must fight to control his crazy primal urges around his new squeeze, Rianna, and his rival, Sgt. Sisk, who both think he's one cool cat.
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When the movie tries to show off their superhuman powers, it often turns downright goofy: when Edward sped off, carrying Bella piggyback, I was surreally reminded of a scene in Rob Schneider's The Animal.
And every once in a while, director Luke Greenfield (forever stuck listing Rob Schneider's "The Animal" as his feature filmmaking debut) manages something a little bit bold and surprisingly inspired.
Perhaps they simply express the tastes and interests of the filmmakers in which case, there's more to director Luke Greenfield than I'd have ever thought based on The Animal, or to screenwriters Brent Goldberg and David Wagner (in light of Van Wilder, My Baby's Daddy and Saving Ryan's Privates).
Director Luke Greenfield has only The Animal on his resume — yes, the Rob Schneider movie — but to his credit, he seems to realize that the glory of Risky Business is its discordant tone, which he tries to replicate.
Director Luke Greenfield ("The Animal") has evoked a sweetly confused but determined performance from romantic lead Hirsch and hilarious but completely different character portrayals from strong supporters Chris Marquette ("Freddy vs. Jason") and Paul Dano ("Taking Lives") as Matthew's best buds Eli and Klitz.
This is something usually reserved for the filmmaker who considers himself an auteur, not the director of Rob Schneider's "The Animal."
On Christmas Eve, an orphanage baby, attracted by a teddy bear peaking out from Santa's sack, crawls into the bag while Santa (Ed Asner, "The Animal") is distracted by milk and cookies.
Edward Asner (The Animal) is Santa Claus, with James Caan (television's Las Vegas series) as Buddy's human father and Bob Newhart as his adoptive elf father.
This comes as no surprise from director Luke Greenfield, behind 2001’s The Animal.
Even when the writers somehow stumble into a promising situation — a shoot-out in the conference room of Wayans’ video-game employer — director Luke Greenfield (whose rap sheet includes “The Animal’’) has no idea of how to stage it to actually get laughs.
(The Animal and The Girl Next Door come to mind.)