Review of Frasier, the Sensuous Lion

I caught this on late night television under the title FRASIER THE LOVABLE LION. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, because this turns out to be a real dud of a movie, a complete embarrassment on the part of all involved. It starts off well enough as a kind of BORN FREE rip-off, American style, with a geeky professor heading to Africa to look at some animals. Once the titular lion starts talking to him, it all falls apart. The execution is terrible and the poor lion is drugged throughout, barely able to move and with tongue hanging loosely from jaw. They could have had some fun with this, a la DR DOOLITTLE, but being an American "comedy" it all boils down, somewhat randomly, to sex, and the script is incurably terrible.