The Animals Get Their Revenge on Brendan Fraser in "Furry Vengeance"

To its credit, "Furry Vengeance" is a prime example of truth in advertising. As the trailers indicate, the movie contains countless scenes in which bird droppings flow like egg whites while skunks release their spray in billowy (and stinky) white clouds. Unfortunately, that honestly is the only nice thing that can be said about this disaster of a movie.

Mother Nature fights back in "Furry Vengeance"

Brendan Fraser plays Dan Sanders, a sales representative for a very demanding land developer. Dan has been put in charge of a new "eco-friendly" housing community in Oregon, which requires that almost all the tress be cleared away to make room for houses. To draw in potential buyers, Sanders also agrees to live in the model home with his family for one year.

As Dan finds out, however, Mother Nature is as mad as heck and won't take this kind of abuse anymore. The animals who call the forest their home wage an all-out campaign again Sanders, including stealing his clothes and blasting him with skunk juice. Dan's wife (an underused Brooke Shields) thinks he's going mad when he talks about how organized the animals have become, begging him to get some therapy.

"Furry Vengeance" is a one-joke movie with mixed messages

A one-joke movie, "Furry Vengeance" takes the idea of animals fighting back to new and extremely gross extremes. Kids under the age of 8 will think this film is hilarious, but for the rest of us, it is 90 minutes that could be better spent doing just about anything else.

Brendan Fraser is an excellent physical comedian, but his talents are wasted in "Furry Vengeance." Fraser is totally fearless here, especially when he wears a hot pink warm-up suit after all his clothing disappears. Fraser's character does even more cross-dressing in a later scene, much to the amusement of the construction workers.

Unfortunately Roger Kumble, who directed the funnier "Just Friends" in 2005, resorts to sight gags that even the "Home Alone" franchise rejected. Director Kumble also tries to give Brooke Shields a subplot about taking over the annual forest festival, but this turns into an excuse to make fun of the elderly.

A film with several mixed messages, "Furry Vengeance" is the kind of cinematic cannon fodder that comes out just before the start of the summer movie season. By the time that "Iron Man" arrives in theaters, "Furry Vengeance" will be nothing more than a fuzzy memory in the minds of moviegoers.

"Furry Vengeance," rated PG for some rude humor, mild language and brief smoking, currently is playing in theaters.