The Island of Dr. Moreau Reviews

Is this a crazy movie/production or what? When this was being made, the original director Richard Stanley got fired and was immediately replaced by John Frankenheimer. Next, Rob Morrow dropped out as the main hero until David Thewlis took his place. Then everything between Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer where you immediately must look it up on what kind of trouble these two created. As for the film itself, well "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is so insanely awful that you got to check out to believe. Brando and Kilmer extremely chew up the scenery everytime they appear, whereas Thewlis and Fairuza Balk felt pretty bad about doing this one it looks like they didn't want to be there (in fact, Balk tried to flee the production, but was caught by the producers and ordered her to finish the movie). The makeup on the animal/human hybrids looked pretty decent, but that's pretty much it. Regardless, the whole thing is dumb and marked the beginning of the end in the careers of Frankenheimer (he later died in 2002), Brando (one of his last notable roles before his 2004 death) and Kilmer. "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is of course not worth a look and the behind-the-scenes stuff is way more interesting than the entire movie itself.