Furry Vengeance

Alvin and those darned Chipmunks showed that there is some serious ker-ching in cute animals interacting with humans, and so Brendan Fraser does the honours opposite digital critters in this frankly unendurable family comedy. He stars as Dan, the basically decent employee of a land-development corporation, who finds himself bamboozled into a plan to destroy an Oregon forest-cum-nature-reserve. But the various furry inhabitants team up to stop the project and undermine Dan's sanity. Even sparky comic Ken Jeong (from The Hangover) as the evil CEO, can't perk this up, and there is a very strange turn from Brooke Shields as Dan's wife. Shields is not a natural comic performer, to say the least. Her face has the comic mobility and expressiveness of an Easter Island statue.