Schneider and Brady sat down with the rest of the crew to "The Animal" in order to decide which scenes and jokes needed to be cut. While Schneider said that the process was hard, he learned how to make a better film from the whole experience.
"The good thing about that though was I was allowed to be my own worst critic. There were times when I was like, 'Are you insane? You can't cut that!' but the reality of it all is that we couldn't have a two and a half-hour movie. So now that we have trimmed the film down we've decided to market it as half-"Pearl Harbor." After all, why would you want to sit through "Pearl Harbor" when you can see "Animal" twice?"
One of the scenes that Schneider was upset about cutting--though that he assures fans will be on the DVD (or so he hopes)-- is a scene involving the moment he discovers he is half man, half animal.
"When I find out that I have animal parts in me I scream, 'I'm an animal Frankenstein!' I then decide to kill myself so I jump into a pond holding a giant rock and wait. And wait. All of a sudden bubbles start to come out of my neck and I find out that I'm part fish and I have gills. I get out of the water and scream, 'I can't even drown myself! I got gills!'"
While Schneider was forced to cut the above scene-- and many others-- for time purposes, he also found various other scenes on the cutting room floor thanks to the MPAA. Knowing that he wanted the film to be more kid-friendly than "Deuce," Schneider soon discovered what exactly was okay for a PG-13 movie as well as what wasn't.
"The MPAA is weird because they look at parts, they don't see the whole," Schneider said. "They also have a sexual hang up like most of America. Like there is a scene where I am humping a mailbox, and you get to see it in the movie, but the MPAA wouldn't allow the camera to show me thrusting myself into it."
