Synopsis
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!
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Cast
- Eddie MurphyDr. John Dolittle
- Ossie DavisArcher Dolittle
- Oliver PlattDr. Mark Weller
- Peter BoyleCalloway
- Richard SchiffDr. Gene Reiss
- Kristen WilsonLisa
- Jeffrey TamborDr. Fish
- Kyla PrattMaya
- Raven-SymonéCharisse
- Steven GilbornDr. Litvack
- 90
Newsweek
Dr. Dolittle is a zoo-and a blast. [6 July 1998, p. 67] - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Director Betty Thomas demonstrates her expertise at keeping indulgence at bay in even the coarsest of comic situations. - 60
The New York Times
There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals. - 50
L.A. Weekly
To his credit, Eddie Murphy knows it well enough to deliver a team-playing performance as the critter-phobic physician who reluctantly becomes the Albert Schweitzer of the animal kingdom. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Small children should be delighted by the menagerie of chatty critters, but their parents may be less than thrilled by what the animals have to say. - 50
Variety
Slim on story and rife with scatological jokes, the film may strike a chord with pre-teens but misses for an older crowd despite some nifty effects and broad humor. - 40
Chicago Reader
Nat Mauldin and Larry Levin's screenplay, indifferently directed by Betty Thomas, is simply an excuse for tired scatological jokes involving animal characters with the voices of well-known actors. - 40
Dallas Observer
It's a kiddie comedy that really shouldn't be on the big screen at all; it has all the creative range of an Afterschool Special.
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