Review of Dolittle

Dolittle (2020)
4/10
Feels like a made-for-TV film...
19 September 2021
Comes across as very amateurish, surprising since it's an all-star cast.

Not sure about his accent, sounds more Scottish than Welsh. Robert Downey Jr made a conscious effort to decide to play his version of John Dolittle as a Welshman, based on a Welsh archdruid named William Price, you'd think he'd have actually been able to pull off a Welsh accent, instead of this weird Scottish-sounding accent. Surprised Michael Sheen (Dr Blair Müdfly) approved, seeing as he himself is a Welshman.

CGI is quite poor, looks like something made 10+ years ago. CGI is impressive when you can't tell it's CGI! Sadly not the case in this film, disappointing considering its budget.

Storyline as a whole is very scattershot and all over the place. All messaging / morals the film decides to randomly insert is painfully overt and disjointed.

Perhaps I am simply not the demographic, but I can't really see children being too interested in this film either.
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