Dollitle just falls very short of the epic adeventure that it was meant to be. In this childish adaptation of the classic novel, every aspect of adventure, danger and excitment gets lost to cheap coedy, bad CGI and extremly weird and lackluster performances from Robert Downey Jr. and the cast that voices the animals.
Downey Jr. decides to half a very poor British/Scottish accent that is blantly distracting and portrays the character of Dr. Dollitle as an old crazy baffoon that just happens to be able to talk to animals and as such everything goes right for him. He ompletly forgets to showcase the genius behind the character. Harry Collett is fine but his part is mostly forgetable and unecessary. Michael Sheen plays a mediocre villain and is as undevelopted as the movie itself. All the animals have terrible personalities and they should just not talk.
The plot of this movie relays on old british tropes like the plan to assasinate the queen and using a coocky character to save her, as such it just makes the movie feel dated.
The movie also leans towards being extremly childish with the funny animals, coocky characters and fart jokes, speacially the last scene with the dragon where all sense of epicness just falls apart and becomes almost like a Family Guy sketch.
Due to the exixtence of the magic tree and the dragon the ability of Dollitle talking to animals becomes less extraordinary, causing the viewer to loss interest on the main point of the character and such the movie.
This movie had a budget of 175 million dollars and it is barely watchable as it looks cheap in both CGI and Sets, and in the end all that is left is a movie that will not be remenbered by the end of the year.
Review by AndreVIP 9BlockedParent2020-07-10T13:39:46Z
Dollitle just falls very short of the epic adeventure that it was meant to be. In this childish adaptation of the classic novel, every aspect of adventure, danger and excitment gets lost to cheap coedy, bad CGI and extremly weird and lackluster performances from Robert Downey Jr. and the cast that voices the animals.
Downey Jr. decides to half a very poor British/Scottish accent that is blantly distracting and portrays the character of Dr. Dollitle as an old crazy baffoon that just happens to be able to talk to animals and as such everything goes right for him. He ompletly forgets to showcase the genius behind the character. Harry Collett is fine but his part is mostly forgetable and unecessary. Michael Sheen plays a mediocre villain and is as undevelopted as the movie itself. All the animals have terrible personalities and they should just not talk.
The plot of this movie relays on old british tropes like the plan to assasinate the queen and using a coocky character to save her, as such it just makes the movie feel dated.
The movie also leans towards being extremly childish with the funny animals, coocky characters and fart jokes, speacially the last scene with the dragon where all sense of epicness just falls apart and becomes almost like a Family Guy sketch.
Due to the exixtence of the magic tree and the dragon the ability of Dollitle talking to animals becomes less extraordinary, causing the viewer to loss interest on the main point of the character and such the movie.
This movie had a budget of 175 million dollars and it is barely watchable as it looks cheap in both CGI and Sets, and in the end all that is left is a movie that will not be remenbered by the end of the year.