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The Animal
DVD cover for The Animal
Directed by	Luke Greenfield
Produced by	Barry Bernardi Carr D'Angelo Todd Garner
Written by	Tom Brady Rob Schneider
Starring	Rob Schneider Colleen Haskell John C. McGinley
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	2001
Running time	84 min
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Animal is a 2001 comedy film, directed by Luke Greenfield. It stars Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, Edward Asner, and John C. McGinley.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Controversy 3 Cast 4 Soundtrack 5 Trivia 6 See also 7 External links

Marvin Mange (played by Schneider) has had a lifelong dream to become a police officer. After failing the training course yet again, he is critically injured when his car goes over a cliff. A deranged scientist rescues him and replaces Marvin's damaged organs with those of various animals.

Unknown to Marvin, his new parts enhance his abilities, and he is soon regarded as a hero. However, he starts to lose control of his instincts, and when people start getting attacked by an unknown creature during the night, Marvin suspects that he is the one responsible.

Despite receiving mostly negative critical reaction, one supporter of the film at the time of its release was film critic David Manning who gave the film critical praise. In late 2001, however, Manning was revealed to be fictitious, created by Sony to fake publicity for the film. At the time, Sony claimed that the error was due to a layout artist who entered 'dummy text' into print advertisements during their design, which was accidentally never replaced with real text.

• Rob Schneider — Marvin Mange
• Colleen Haskell — Rianna
• John C. McGinley — Sgt. Sisk
• Edward Asner — Chief Wilson
• Michael Caton — Dr. Wilder
• Louis Lombardi — Fatty
• Guy Torry — Miles
• Bob Rubin — Bob Harris

Track listing for The Animal soundtrack:

1. No Matter What (7:27) A
2. It's On (Party Time) (8:04) Ali Dee
3. Got 2 B Luv (7:05) Bottlefly
4. Salt Bag Spil (4:40) Citizen King
5. My Projects (9:42) Coo Coo Cal
6. Let's Get It On (10:32) Marvin Gaye
7. The Amazing Dolphin Bay (5:40) Minus 5
8. Hey Baby (10:34) Mocean Worker
9. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train) (17:40) Quad City DJ's
10. Hardest Way Possible (12:16) Rustic Overtones
11. Wild Thing (10:05) Tone-Loc
12. Hard Living (8:28) Wailing Souls

• Norm MacDonald and executive producer Adam Sandler make cameo appearances. In Sandler's appearance, he utters the "You can do it!" line that Schneider has said in many of Sandler's films.

• 2001 in film

• The Animal at the Internet Movie Database
• The Animal at Rotten Tomatoes
• Official court notice of David Manning settlement