This is nowhere near as bad as some of the reviews here are saying. The CGI is a bit poor but other than that it is a good family movie. If you watch the film right to the very end there is a very funny dance routine done by the cast. Good to see actors letting their hair way down and having a bit of fun. Brendan Fraser & Brooke Shields are clearly not egomaniacs. I got a few good laughs out of this and it would be a great movie to watch with the kids. I am going to be generous with my score as the 3.8 it has at the moment is very unfair. It is much better than that. Again, be sure to watch the cast dance routine while the end credits roll.

I have to admit that I thought this movie was incredibly stupid, but my kids loved it, and afterall, it was made for them, not for me. They laughed up a storm and gave it 10/10 when I asked them (my rating of 6 is an average of their score and mine!)

As other reviewers have written, you have to give the cast credit for giving it their all, even if it was in pursuit of a rather questionable goal. We watched the gag reel and Making Of video on the DVD, and they clearly had a ball making this movie. I also give them credit for shoehorning in a great message about protecting forests - it's never bad for kids to hear that.

If you're expecting a deep, meaningful movie experience, this ain't it, but if you and your kids want some cheap laughs, this is a safe bet.

While there are some very funny moments in this family comedy, most of it is eye-rolling, particularly the performances by the human actors, most of them playing characters who are truly reprehensible. Brendan Fraser works for the obnoxious Ken Jeong who is interested in turning an area of lush green woods into a private Community, tearing down all the trees and displacing all the animals. The animals vow revenge and make life a living hell for Fraser as they had for another employee through their own manipulation and knowledge of the natural resources.

Like a Saturday morning cartoon, the humans are the idiotic villains and the wild animals (in this case squirrels, mice, raccoons, skunks, foxes and various species of birds) are the smart ones. It's cute when the animals, obviously computer-generated, are doing their thing, but this forget some important laws of nature. Raccoons would only be out during the day if they were rabid, and they certainly wouldn't be friendly with the other animals they are in conspiracy with here in that condition.

This is particularly embarrassing for the stereotypical behavior of Hispanic, Asian and Indian characters, and Leung in particular is very bad. Poor Alice Drummond is mistreated as a teacher who works with Fraser's wife Brooke Shields, presented as senile simply because she has tenure and hasn't yet retired. After a while, even these cute little woodsy creatures become ridiculously annoying. Poor Brendan Fraser sufferers a bunch of major indignities, particularly carrying a rainbow umbrella while wearing his wife's workout outfit which accentuates his buttocks as he walks to his car past the oggling workers in his yard. This wears out its welcome early on, only getting a higher rating because I did chuckle a few more times than I would normally at anything so bad.