Furry Vengeance/ La forêt contre-attaque

The Forest Strikes Back or The Forest Counter-attacks

I have not seen this film. The thought of having to sit down and watch Brendan Fraser gives me headaches. He's not funny, he's not good looking, I don't think he can act. And yet he carries on making sillier and sillier films (A thought that echoes the article about Danny Dyer here). As I have not watched the film, I'm going to be a lazy person and just copy and paste the synopsis from IMDB, where the film has a current rating of 2.4/10.

"When Dan Sanders moves his family to the country, he's put in charge of developing a suburban neighborhood in a wooded area. Dan soon finds himself under pressure from his boss to push the project through while his wife and son pressure him to move back to Chicago. But Dan's situation soon gets worse when the local wildlife, led by a wily raccoon, stand their ground to protect their homes. It's not long before Dan finds himself in all out war with the animals."

Ok, so someone's done something to the animals, and they seak revenge. Hence the furry of the title. 

The French title, once more, relies on a reference to a well known film title (rule 4), in this case, L'Empire contre-attaque (aka The Empire Strikes Back) which implies then that a bunch of storm troopers will get out of the woods and kick someone's butt. Maybe they managed to get more people to watch this film that way? Who knows.

Oh yeah, the French Canadians, I am boring myself typing it, nearly got it right once more with their "Petite vengeance poilue". Why nearly? Because they added "petite", for an unknown reason.

Bad film, bad translation, nothing new here!

Yeah, like I'm gonna have a picture of Fraser on MY blog... No way.
 There. Have something cute and furry :D

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