The Animal

A mild-mannered nebbish gets in touch with his basic instincts in this dopey comedy. Lowly evidence clerk Marvin Mange (SNL alumnus Rob Schneider) wants nothing more than to be a policeman like his late father. But even by the relaxed standards of small-town Elkerton's Police Department, the stumbling, asthmatic Marvin isn't up to snuff. He's failed the physical three times — old men jog faster than he does — and is regularly terrorized by dogs and small children. Then fate intervenes: Marvin has a terrible automobile accident, and is pulled from the wreckage by a mysterious figure. When he returns to work, he learns he's been gone for a week, and q...