Eddie Murphy,
Ossie Davis,
Oliver Platt,
Peter Boyle,
Richard Schiff
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Betty Thomas directed this adaptation of the classic children's stories by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), updating the original concepts into the present day. When noted surgeon Dr. John Dolittle (Eddie Mu... read more
Directed by: Betty Thomas
Release Date: June 26, 1998
Keywords:
family,
kids,
eddie murphy,
chris rock,
family film,
talking animals,
Eddie Murphy ,
Rex Harrison ,
Beverly Hills Cop,
Chris Rock
DVD Release Date: August 3, 1999
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March 17, 2012Hugh Lofting's Dr.Dolittle is really a bad decision to make an adaptation to the cinema. Both the original picture and this remake are a very dumb and honest... a piece of crap. Rotten.
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December 11, 2011This is yet another awful remake of a classic film. Eddie Murphy plays Dr. Doolittle, and this is one of the films that he's done where his acting suffered quite a bit and his comedic delivery started to be quite boring. After this dreadful film, Eddie Murphy starred in Bowfinger... read more
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August 11, 2011I hate remakes, and this movie is no exception. Murphy takes this whole animal talking power too far. It's just not funny at all.
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January 27, 2011Obviously Eddie Murphy was trying to get in on the whole family comedy genre, but this is just more boring than funny. While there's nothing particularly terrible about it, it's just not something I can watch more than once. Some of the story is a little kooky, but not in an impr... read more
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March 17, 2010Wildly of laughs on animals that Eddie Murphy has the ability to communicate with. Not as noble or feel-good as Babe but its own level just as amazing that the filmmakers could pull this off as well as they do. This film is truly for the entire family.
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January 11, 2010fb733768972I like this film, because it tries to do what other talking animal movie fail to do!
Critic Reviews
March 26, 2009
Leonard Klady, Variety
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie will not harm anyone, and in the audience I saw it with, lots of parents and kids seemed to be laughing together. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The old actor's rule -- never work with animals or kids -- has never seemed more apt. The animals steal the scene from Murphy every time, and he gives it up gladly. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Dr. Dolittle runs out of ideas long before the projector runs out of film. Full Review
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
A cloying, humorless motion picture whose only assets are the work of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and a couple of good one-liners by a pair of rodents. Full Review
January 1, 2011
Ed Grant, Common Sense Media
This gimmicky animal tale is crude but funny. Full Review
January 7, 2009
Jon Popick, rec.arts.movies.reviews
It's quite funny for the first thirty minutes, but after that it's kind of like beating a dead horse. A dead talking horse. Full Review
January 26, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out
Murphy's likeable, the script's laden with a gaggle of one-liners, and there's even a vague message nestling beneath the zoological chaos. Full Review
December 6, 2005
Anthony Miele, Film Threat
Dr. Dolittle is destined to be a money maker, since kids will see the talking animals and be instantly taken in, but it is the film's utter lack of anything wholesome that causes its downfall. Full Review
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