Chicago – “Zookeeper” is a weird, weird movie. It was heavily advertised as a family film about talking animals but it’s more of a Kevin James romantic comedy and even features some dark material about the treatment of animals. In other words, it’s wildly inconsistent and sometimes just strange. Any movie that can feature a Gorilla getting a brain freeze at TGIFridays next to a standard romantic comedy love triangle next to an abuse subplot straight out of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is a weird, weird movie. James and Rosario Dawson are so incredibly likable that they keep it watchable but the movie just never clicks because it never picked an audience and, therefore, satisfies none of them.
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
Kids will get bored every time the animals aren’t talking. Parents are likely to cringe every time they do. And both will marvel that one...
Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
Kids will get bored every time the animals aren’t talking. Parents are likely to cringe every time they do. And both will marvel that one...
- 10/24/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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