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"Dr. Dolittle 2" was a cute movie. It was
definitely better that it's prequel and it actually had a good
plot: A logging company wants to tear down hundreds of acres
of forest-- leaving the animals that live there homeless.
Dr. Dolittle (with the help of his animal friends) comes up with a
plot to save the forest! An endangered species of bears
lives in the forest, but there is only one...a female.
In order to save the forest, Dr. Dolittle must successfully mate
the female with another male of the same species. There's a
catch-- the only male available is a tamed circus bear! Dr.
Dolittle has one month to turn "Wayne Newton with fur"
into a real outdoor bear and get him to mate with the
female.
Anyway, the story is pretty cute so the film was definitely
enjoyable. What made the movie really fun, of course, were
the talking animals! How can you go wrong with talking
animals?! Steve Zahn voices the totally funny (and goofy)
Archie, the tame dancing bear, while Lisa Kudrow voices Eva, the
female bear. There were lots of other talking animals (of
course) but I'm not sure about did the voices. I think
Arnold Schwarzenegger was actually the voice of the Alpha Wolf,
Joey Lauren Adams was the cute little Squirrel, and Andy Dick was
the Weasel, but that's all I got.
Hmmm. I don't really have much more to say about the
movie. Eddie Murphy was hilarious as usual, what more can I
say? I love Eddie! My only complaint: There was a
little potty humor (which I don't much like) but not too much to
disgust me...it was ok.
Recommendation:
"Dr. Dolittle 2" is a cute movie with funny talking
animals and stars the side-splitting Eddie Murphy. Unlike
most movies of this caliber (talking animals and such) the plot
was very interesting and very believable-- assuming you believe
the whole understanding animals thing. Take the kids to this
one, it's got a great environmentalist message (save our forests!)
and it's very funny.
-- Patsy
( 2 1/2 out of 4 pops )
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