Doctor Dolittle

4.00
    Doctor Dolittle
    1998

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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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