Dolittle Reviews

Movie Reviews

• while "Dolittle" is unlikely to become a cult classic like its predecessors and doesn't necessarily transcend generations, it will likely find a captivated audience in its young viewers

  by KiMi Robinson [Arizona Republic ]

• the film is so eager to please, so relentlessly quippy and quirky and tipped with antic whimsy, it often feels like visiting a zoo built into a Tilt-A-Whirl

  Review rate : C+ by Leah Greenblatt [Entertainment Weekly ]

• Robert Downey Jr. veers dangerously into Johnny Depp territory in this elaborately staged but charmless adaptation of the classic childrens' books

  by Rafer Guzman [Newsday ]

• Robert Downey Jr. turns in a bizarre, but entertaining performance in "Dolittle", though it doesn't much elevate this generic family-friendly adventure

  by Molly Freeman [ScreenRant ]

• no doctor can cure what ails this Dolittle; The oddly diffident star and executive producer Robert Downey Jr. never finds the power-supplying third rail needed to energize a tale that fails to make a real case for being reinterpreted

  by Todd McCarthy [The Hollywood Reporter ]

• If you want to go into something and just laugh and have fun, then you'll enjoy "Dolittle"; this movie is one that you can take the kids to, have fun, and not really think too much during, and that's, sometimes, the best kind of adventure movie

  by Rachel Leishman [The Mary Sue ]

• "Dolittle" is not a funny movie--sweet and engaging sometimes to be sure, but nowhere near a laugh-riot; It's a film made for children. So we should probably mostly view it through that lens. In that regard, the movie is perfectly okay

  by Richard Lawson [Vanity Fair ]

• "Dolittle" can most generously be described as passable for young, undiscerning viewers. It won't charm or amuse you particularly but it's not a catastrophe, the highest praise I can muster

  by Benjamin Lee [The Guardian ]

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