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    Country
    Runtime 1 hr 24 min
    Budget $47 000 000
    Premiere: World $85 191 134 June 11, 2001
    USA $57 743 062
    Other countries $27 448 072
    Box Office – Budget $38 191 134
    Premiere: USA $57 743 062 March 21, 2001
    theaters 2788
    rollout 214 days
    Digital: World May 1, 2007
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      few

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Profanity

      few

    • Violence & Gore

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    • Sex & Nudity

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    Description

    After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.

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    Reception

    The Animal debuted on June 1, 2001, grossing $19.6 million U.S. in its opening weekend (#3 behind Shrek and Pearl Harbor). With a production budget of $47 million, the movie grossed $84,772,742 internationally.

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    Critique: 8

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    myhouston.com June 4, 2001

    A silly, stupid story with a one-joke comic premise.

    USA Today June 1, 2001

    This may be giving Schneider too much credit, but the lad has found a way to temporarily halt the de-evolution of the silly comedy.

    BBC October 29, 2001

    If you want a giggle and are not too fussy, you could do much worse than surrendering to its shamelessly puerile brand of smutty schoolboy hum...

    Austin Chronicle June 25, 2001

    About the best you can say regarding this inoffensive Schneider vehicle is, hey, it could have been worse.

    SFGATE June 4, 2001

    Let’s hear it for stupendously dumb screen writing.

    Decent Films May 9, 2002

    There was one thing about The Animal that did surprise me: the extent to which it systematically rips off Wolf.

    calendarlive.com June 1, 2001

    An outrageous and imaginative summer comedy aimed primarily at young males, but it is often so funny that it may well connect to a broader aud...

    Salon.com June 1, 2001

    Neither as bad as it might be nor as entertaining as it should be.

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    Favorite childhood movie, how can you shit on it? Impossible! At times it’s even very funny. Unfortunately, Rob Schneider will probably never get out of his clown and frivolous role. Even Sandler managed to do it, but Rob, alas, has no chance. There must be hope…

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