Hyenas

Well Hyenas are criminally underused creatures. I mean they have everything you can want in a critter. Their jaws can snap back bones. The are smart, fast, and hunt in packs. They got that weird laugh thing going and an even weirder social structure (there are many matriarchial societies in nature but I don't recall any other were the females can fake having a penis.) The just look mean and sneaky. Yet for all that, what we have hyenas being low rent thugs in the Lion King, and I believe the Joker would have some hyenas as pets from time to time. Oh and there was a minor Firestorm villain who was a were hyena.

See? Totally underused.

So I was glad to see someone finally make a film about were hyenas. Set in america, A crazy old were hyena hunter takes a guy who just lost his wife to were hyenas under his guidance. Luckily all the were hyenas are coming to them for a combination were hyena family reunion and "let's kill all the were hyena hunters" jamboree. Meanwhile, in Hicksville a girl and her idiot brother are caught between feuding rednecks and hispanics. All of these plot points get to mix it up in the abadoned copper mine full of explosives (???).

So is this a good film? No. I can say that easily enough. Besides the usual crimes of low budget film making this one gets a little unstuck in time at the beginning. We are left confused on the beginning chronology and it isn't helped when the crazy guy breaks the 4th wall and talks to us. The computerized hyenas were also very disappointing. On the other hand they did try to give the hyenas a little personality and culture so that's a plus point.

Overall, I was disappointed but not terribly so. I am hopeful someday to see a kick ass hyena movie. Someday....