EDITOR'S NOTE: For the second time in as many weeks, Sun critic Randall King has lapsed into a strange stupor while watching a movie. We have noticed that if a film is particularly unchallenging to a critic of King's keen perceptions, he reverts to what he has described as a "primitive Pict ancestor" called Thog. Randall King went into the theatre to see the new Rob Schneider movie The Animal. But when the lights went down, it was Thog who watched it. Thog's Report:

Books say dead men are kings of comedy. Books hail Charlie Chaplin. They say Buster Keaton great.
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In The Animal, comic Rob Schneider takes on the qualities of the animals whose organs he acquires during experimental surgery. But you already knew all that -- courtesy of the ads and trailers for this movie.

Schneider plays a wimp who longs to be a real policeman. After a bad accident, he is changed; he winds up with the speed, strength and olfactory acuity of a dog, a horse, a chimp and a sea lion combined, or so it seems, we don't write this stuff people, we just look at it.
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