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Dolittle (2020)

Comedy | 101 minutes
2,65 275 votes

Genre: Comedy / Family

Duration: 101 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Stephen Gaghan

Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Harry Collett and Rami Malek

IMDb score: 5,6 (78.014)

Releasedate: 2 January 2020

Dolittle plot

"He's just not a people person."

After losing his wife, John Dolittle, a Victorian-era doctor, isolates himself from the world with only his exotic animals for company. However, when the young Queen Victoria is seriously ill, John is forced to travel to a mythical island in search of a cure. During his quest, he is joined by a young apprentice and a company of animals, including a fearful gorilla, an enthusiastic duck, a cynical ostrich, a cheerful polar bear and a quirky parrot.

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Onderhond

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Still a little better than expected.

The critics have apparently gone for it again, then the film is usually not that bad. If this is certainly not a comparable story to Cats, where the weirdness factor was really too high for the serious critic. Here it is rather the lightness that plays tricks on the film, I suspect.

There are also quite a few scenes that were suspiciously short. Normally you would expect a break-in in a movie like this to have some kind of mini-climax, but three time jumps and the main characters have invaded the villain's castle. So if you expect a more serious fantasy story, it's better to drop out.

The advantage is that fortunately the film does not last too long and therefore the stretch does not really go out. The lightness is also a blessing, because although not everything is successful, you don't have to make the effort to take it all very seriously. It's just a simple, smooth blockbuster that aims to provide 100 minutes of entertainment. And he does.

Only pity is that Downey can't do more with his part. Now he's finally rid of Marvel/Iron Man, but if he's going to act as a pale Depp then it doesn't really get along.

2.5*

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Macmanus

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Bleaches.

It is indeed not that terrible movie that the critics made of it. As usual with blockbusters, it lacks some soul that you need anyway. The cast has been chosen too safely. Downey is not great but also the animal voices are too familiar and a mixed bag of people. And then another pale child who can stand next to Downey. It is a pity that the discussion about more diversity always lingers in color or condition or orientation. When it is more about what kind of actor, you have to look much more for children who do not come from drama school, a child who still has a bit of rough edges. I recently saw the trailer for the new Witches film adaptation, and it is admittedly a dark boy chosen woke, but again such a clothing model without any character.

Story is still quite doable, everything goes pretty smoothly and the playing time is not ridiculously long. It's not all too childish either. Most jokes don't really work but I certainly didn't think it was all that ridiculously bad.

Only real downside is that it's too safe to create a certain magic,

2 stars.

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K. V.

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No expectations with this movie, but it was a fun adventure movie. I haven't seen the original movies, so I can't compare. A lot of famous voices in this film and of course Robert Downey Jr. At times he reminded me a bit of a kind of Jack Sparrow, but it got better towards the end. The animals were nicely animated and now and then there was also room for a joke.

Was better than expected.

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