SaysWho? Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dolittle/ 17% Tomatometer 4.15/10 Average Rating NPR: "Dolittle is a not a film. Dolittle is a crime scene in need of forensic analysis. Something happened here. Something terrible. Something inexplicable." Peter Travers: "Robert Downey, Jr. talks to the animals and hits a career low in this object lesson in cinematic incoherence that will leave children sad and confused and adults scratching their heads. Come back, 'Cats,' we forgive you." WSJ: "A production that achieves the dubious distinction of combining too-muchness with not-enoughness: too much tumult and chaos, not enough dramatic focus; too many animals with clever names spouting glib one-liners, not enough simple human feeling." The Atlantic: "One of the worst cinematic fiascos I've seen in years." New York Magazine: "I wasn't expecting Dolittle to be good, exactly, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite this bad." The Wrap: "Splats onto the screen like horse dung, with few laughs and no charm. Even the actor's legendary charisma, which this project sorely needed, gets tamped down." Richard Roeper: "Please make it stop." Variety: "What should have been an awe-filled adventure quickly curdles into an awful one, thanks to a pedestrian formula and the filmmakers' fixation on fart jokes." Michael Phillips: "I wouldn't say I prefer the clunky 1967 musical to the frenetic mechanical bull of this version. But I wouldn't say I don't." And lots of enema talk: NY Post: "There's got to be a moment, as an actor watches himself on-screen pulling bagpipes out of a CGI dragon's rear end, that he thinks, "Have I really fallen this far?"" Ty Burr of the Boston Globe: "I definitely don't recall a scene in which the good doctor has to perform a rectal probe on said dragon, with much comic passing of gas. If that strikes you as hilarious, by all means go with God." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Eh. After the hilarity that Cats brought to the movie critic world, I fear nothing else will ever be that great again. I get that this movie is trying though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Just another great January movie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Is this news a surprise? The trailers made this look awful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Based on the trailers, I knew it couldn't have been good, so I'm glad to see its firmly owing its BAD! There is ignoble glory in truly sucking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 The trailers looked bad. So I’m not surprising. It will probably do better than it should since kids like animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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