McAleer is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service. Some material may not be suitable for children. The Motion Picture Association rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III - adults. JustWatch Women in Fury 1984 ‘Femmine in fuga’ Directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini Synopsis The Brazilian Jungles Wildest Creatures The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. The film contains intense cartoonish violence and rude scatological humor. “I want to leave my mark,” Hank says, tugging at his pants after winning a fight. Regrettably, moreover, there’s always a potty joke lurking around the bend to offer “comic” relief. Coyote look like child’s play - and is thus too intense for younger viewers. “Paws of Fury” channels “Kung Fu Panda” and “The Karate Kid” as training begins and Jimbo casts pearls of wisdom like, “It’s not important what you do, so long as you do something.”Īs the action barrels along to its climactic battle, the constant mayhem borders on the extreme - making what Road Runner did to Wile E. “But I can teach a dog to be a better dog.” “I can’t teach a dog to be a cat,” he says. He dusts off his copy of “Samurai for Dummies” and gets to work. Jimbo, who would rather eat catnip all day, relents, sensing that Ika Chu is assembling an invading army, led by a Manx cat named Ohga (voice of George Takei). Jackson), to train him in the sacred arts. Once the cats discover Hank has no fighting skills, he’s relegated to the status of a dog’s dinner.īut Hank perseveres and embraces his destiny, beseeching a washed-up samurai, Jimbo (voice of Samuel L. To undermine the village, Ika Chu picks the most unlikely candidate to be its samurai protector: a hapless, insecure beagle named Hank (voice of Michael Cera) - despite the fact that felines naturally hate canines. A warmongering Somali cat named Ika Chu (voice of Ricky Gervais), who worships a monumental jade toilet he calls his “Super Bowl,” hatches an evil plot to destroy a neighboring feline village called Kakamucho (really). The fish-out-of-water plot is mildly familiar, though set here in a swashbuckling world of swords and samurais. About the only recognizable elements of “Blazing Saddles” here are horses getting punched in the head and a veritable tsunami of flatulence gags.
It’s a clever conceit that misses the mark, despite Brooks lending his raspy voice talent as Shogun, a wise leader.
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