(Obviously, there are major spoilers ahead for “Dolittle,” since we’re going to discuss the end of the movie here)
“Dolittle” has been kind of a confounding film for a while now, for many reasons. Robert Downey Jr trying something completely different in his first movie since “Avengers: Endgame.” The movie landing in January despite its massive, blockbuster-level budget. The fact that it just looks strange. The marketing pushing the film as a “Hobbit”-esque whimsical fantasy adventure, which is not generally a type of movie that anybody is asking for.
The existence of this film becomes less puzzling when you realize that it’s basically just a live-action rendering of an animated film. But there’s no context that anyone could come up with that would make the ending of “Dolittle” feel like anything other than pure insanity. We’ve had a pretty good run of studio-produced madness the last couple months,...
“Dolittle” has been kind of a confounding film for a while now, for many reasons. Robert Downey Jr trying something completely different in his first movie since “Avengers: Endgame.” The movie landing in January despite its massive, blockbuster-level budget. The fact that it just looks strange. The marketing pushing the film as a “Hobbit”-esque whimsical fantasy adventure, which is not generally a type of movie that anybody is asking for.
The existence of this film becomes less puzzling when you realize that it’s basically just a live-action rendering of an animated film. But there’s no context that anyone could come up with that would make the ending of “Dolittle” feel like anything other than pure insanity. We’ve had a pretty good run of studio-produced madness the last couple months,...
- 1/19/2020
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
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