Dolittle stars Robert Downey Jr as Dr Dolittle, a man who can walk with the animals, talk with the animals, laugh and squeak and squawk with the animals but who has gone into exile after his beloved wife dies at sea but when the Queen (Jesse Buckley from Wild Rose) falls ill he has to go on a dangerous journey to find a cure and save his animal sanctuary.
Dolittle is not the flaming pile of poo that other have said but its not far off it either, this movie for me is a regular pile of poo for these reasons:
- Firstly Robert Downey Jr one of the most likeable, charismatic actors on earth, the man who made us all cry with his sacrifice in Avengers Endgame last year is terrible in this, he talks so fast so quickly and does a variety of different accents at the same time that every time he opens his mouth it pulls you out of the film as you have no idea what on Earth he’s saying and I really really wish that someone had pulled him aside and said “Robert can you slow down please?” it would’ve made for a better performance I think.
- Secondly the journey is not a very fun one, the editing at times feels very choppy and it relies too much on Emma Thompson providing voiceover to tell us stuff that should have been a part of the movie in terms of said journey, the films humour falls very flat save for making a few kids laugh in my session and the tone of it feels off at times, it wants to be whimsical but also mournful about Dr Dolittle’s lost wife and plots to take over the crown of England.
Um Okay, why exactly couldn’t we have done without the faceless men trying to knife a leader and killing off the wife, this could’ve been fun and whimsical with cute animals and music and Chief Wiggum even.
I did however like Mr Michael Sheen as the villain, yes he’s snooty and dastardly but he at least is having some sort of fun with this role and he does try an awful lot to salvage something, anything out of this abominable mess of a movie.
Dolittle is sadly a turkey that the good doctor should have put down for its own good, its tonally off, has a bad lead performance and fails at giving people outside of young children a fun adventure with laughs to be had, poor Mr Sheen he really did try, 1.5 out of 5.
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