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Dr. Dolittle 2

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Dr. Dolittle 2 reviews
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7.6 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 28 critic reviews
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Based on 20 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Family/Kids

Written by: Larry Levin
Hugh Lofting (Doctor Dolittle stories)

Directed by: Steve Carr

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 22, 2001
DVD: October 23, 2001

Running Time: 87 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG for language and crude humor

Starring Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Pollak, Steve Irwin, Norm Macdonald, Lil' Zane, and Kyla Pratt

Eddie Murphy returns as the doctor who can talk to the animals in this sequel to the 1998 blockbuster comedy. This time, it's Dolittle versus Darwin in the ultimate man vs. nature show down, in the midst of the animal kingdom's first strike. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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80

Variety Joe Leydon

Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

What makes the "Dolittle" movies stand out from this menagerie is the superb casting and matching of the animals and their human voices.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Wholesome entertainment that will please the under-10 crowd without boring their parents.

75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Cute, crude and good-hearted movie.

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70

Salon.com Charles Taylor

The good-natured silliness of it all kept me laughing.

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63

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Cleaner, cuter animal antics.

63

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.

63

USA Today Mike Clark

It's the kind of material that is either going to make your day or not.

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63

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

Pure situation comedy, and it's still fresh enough to provoke laughs.

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60

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Mr. Murphy is not given much to do in this sloppy, good-hearted sequel, so he graciously allows himself to be upstaged by all manner of animatronic, celebrity-voiced talking animals.

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60

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

Murphy's second outing as the M.D. who talks to the animals is surprisingly engaging.

60

Washington Post Rita Kempley

Brings bite as well as bark to the funnier sequel.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr

Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance.

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50

New Times (L.A.) M.V. Moorhead

It's a modest family comedy, probably fun for kids and reasonably cute, or at least not too insufferable, for most of the grownups who will take them.

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50

TV Guide Frank Lovece

Overall it's a funny film, but parents should decide if the anti-gay and misogynist elements are worth the laughs.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan

A tired, cobbled-together concoction.

50

Village Voice Jessica Winter

It's dispiriting to watch him (Murphy) stand patiently by and concoct reaction shots for quipping raccoons and dancing bears.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham

It is the Eddie Murphy movie where Eddie Murphy has next to nothing to do. Do little says it all.

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50

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

The best that the good doctor (Murphy) can do, encumbered as he is by Larry Levin's screenplay and its low joke quotient, is discipline the dog, lay into the lizard and shtick it to the bear.

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40

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity.

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40

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

At its best, Dr. Dolittle 2 is an inoffensive mish-mash of cute talking animals and their somewhat less-than-cute human buddies.

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40

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Alleged family fun.

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30

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Too much plot and too much faith in special effects and adolescent humor doom this "Babe" wannabe.

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30

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

Ever so slightly defective in the area of coherence; it plays as if it should have been written by a committee but they didn't bother to convene one.

30

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Best news: over in 87 minutes.

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25

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

All that's left are cute animals with animated mouths spitting out fitfully inspired one liners, sophomoric sexual innuendo and enough poop gags to last a lifetime.

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25

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's a terrible picture: ugly and illogical and clumsily staged and peppered with crude, witless humor.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 20 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chanel S. gave it a 10:
I love this movie. It is a better movie than the first one.

Stephanie B. gave it a 10:
So hilarious, I was practically rolling in the ailse laughing...

Frank A. gave it a 7:
My kids enjoyed it -- it hit the mark for them.

[Anonymous] gave it a 10:
I really, really liked this movie.

Christopher G. gave it a 10:
Like the previous Dr. D, this is anexcelent movie, had me laughing the whole way through. It's nice to see a movie once in a while with no extemely vulgar langage in it. What has happened to the movie industry? The only movies we seem to get are full of sex and nasty langage. Is this what THEY think the public wants? I say not. 10 thumbs up for Mr. Murphy.

Michael C. gave it a 7:
Earning from me about as much applause as the first movie, Dr. Dolittle 2 is not a movie you will struggle to enjoy. It is a crude, funny, warm and reasonably clever fantasy with heaps of potential and a storyline that allows the film to succeed thoroughly. Like "Shrek," Dr. Dolittle 2 is not only a film for children. There is a heap of adult humour hidden in its crude, good-hearted storyline, including a "Silence of the Lambs" spoof and an interesting take on animal mafia. If there’s anything wrong, I missed the guinea pig character from the first movie, and Lucky, the leading animal character in the first film, doesn’t have nearly enough lines. But, all the new animals, friend or fiend, all provide a purpose in the movie that is well used. The human characters also provide the same amount of emotion and comedy as they did in the first time, this time it’s the teen daughter of Dolittle that gets the attention, in the first movie it was really the younger daughter that got the family-angst centre. Kristen Wilson who plays the teen daughter supports the fab Eddie Murphy and has a surprise waiting in store for us at the end of the film. At times corny, at others plain fantastic, Dr. Dolittle 2 will have you smiling until the end.

Mel J. gave it an 8:
Better than the first one, but it was a little sloppy.

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