Alan Rosenus

This interesting film is good at creating suspense, but the ending is a botch on the part of the writer and director. If the blonde killer had been the final scene's "masked man" it might have given Glenn Close a moment of self-realization--that she's poison for men, and too scared of being betrayed and hurt to carry on a give-and-take romance. However, the screenwriter Ezterhas seems to be far more interested in delivering a shock than an unflattering insight.

This is an outrageously funny, subversive detour through the lives of wilds and pets. During the finale they're all singing the Carpenters' song, "Close to you."