(1999 TV Movie)

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6/10
comical look at animals who got the upper hand against people
roegrocks2 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This is a documentary and there's not really much suspense. There's not really any way to describe the film in detail without giving away what happened.

I saw this film in April 1999, and this is all from memory, but I'll do my best. This comical documentary shows the results of when people and animals crossed paths, and the animals, at least temporarily, got the best of the situation. The filming and editing was fairly straight on, with a feel reminiscent of Michael Moore because of the strangeness, but without the narration.

A crazy squirrel terrorizes a neighborhood for several weeks, attacking a few different people. A turkey poacher receives his just rewards when the tables are turned by his quarry in a most unusual and damaging way. The saddest portion of the movie involves a run away boa constrictor and the neighbor's poodle. The strangest story concerns one of the unluckiest women in the world, who is on a first-name basis with everyone at the local emergency room and could easily be the subject of her own documentary, and how she receives a blow to the head under the most unlikely of circumstances that makes one wonder what she may have done in previous lifetimes to suffer such "coincidences". There are a couple of other stories I can't recall.

Overall, I thought it was funny and entertaining, as well as off-beat. It is definitely not a cuddly film, so be careful. Not a date movie. LOL!
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6/10
3 Stars out of 5 Stars
ajneeago9615 November 2021
Much like the rest of Mark Lewis's documentaries, the film is riddled with reenactment after reenactment, which I'm not a fan of. The stories were interesting though, including an attacking squirrel, a neck-breaking parakeet, a wig stealing hawk, gun-wielding turkeys, pet-hungry boa constrictors, and raining ducks. It's quite fun and I recommend it to anyone that likes funny, somewhat odd documentaries.
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