Furry Vengeance

This crude movie revives the eco-horror pictures of the 1950s and '60s as green comedy. The intelligent local fauna (racoons, skunks, bears, squirrels, birds) unite to undermine the local boss of a construction company that's tearing down the forests of Oregon to build luxury housing and a shopping mall. The hapless hero (Brendan Fraser) is treated with a degree of gleeful sadism not seen in a Hollywood comedy since Home Alone , and his contemptuous wife is played by Brooke Shields, once a chilly child star in Pretty Baby , now a hatchet-faced matron. His Chinese-American employer brings in Mr Gupta, a rich Indian entrepreneur to help destroy the American environment, a scene that should play well in downtown Bhopal.