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Dolittle

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:25 pm

Have you watched Dolittle?
Which are your favourite talking animals?
In Victorian era Britain, Dr. John Dolittle is a Welsh veterinarian with the ability to communicate with animals. After his wife, Lily, dies at sea, Dolittle retreats from human society and only tends to animals. Years later, a boy, Tommy Stubbins, accidentally wounds Kevin the red squirrel and is guided to Dolittle's help by Polynesia, a macaw. Queen Victoria dispatches Lady Rose to summon Dolittle to help cure her of a deadly illness. He refuses until Poly persuades him that he must begin to reconnect with fellow humans.

He finds the Queen has been poisoned by nightshade and the only cure is the magical fruit of Eden. Though they will need to obtain the location from Lily's journal on Monteverde, Poly, Betsy the giraffe, and Tutu the fox help Tommy escape from his home, and he joins Dolittle's crew including Kevin, Capuchin monkeys Elliot and Elsie, Chee-Chee the gorilla, Yoshi the polar bear, Plimpton the ostrich, Dab-Dab the duck, and Mini the sugar glider. They put to sail for the cure while evading Dolittle's lifelong rival Dr. Blair Müdfly. Dolittle leaves his lurcher Jip and a stick insect named Styx behind to guard the Queen while he's traveling. Dolittle's boat is attacked by Müdfly, and they escape by harnessing a humpback whale, who pulls the boat to safety.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolittle_(film)

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Re: Dolittle

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Post by CaptHayfever » Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:10 am

I was actually pretty excited for this movie, but the audio was so bad--especially the looping of Downey's dialogue--that it made the whole thing hard to sit through. And I hated how the child leads didn't get any character development.

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