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Dr. Dolittle 2
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 28 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
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)
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FILM: Dr. Dolittle
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What The Critics Said
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Variety Joe Leydon
Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Wholesome entertainment that will please the under-10 crowd without boring their parents.
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Cleaner, cuter animal antics.
Boston Globe Jay Carr
It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
USA Today Mike Clark
It's the kind of material that is either going to make your day or not.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Pure situation comedy, and it's still fresh enough to provoke laughs.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
Murphy's second outing as the M.D. who talks to the animals is surprisingly engaging.
Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr
Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
A tired, cobbled-together concoction.
Village Voice Jessica Winter
It's dispiriting to watch him (Murphy) stand patiently by and concoct reaction shots for quipping raccoons and dancing bears.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Too much plot and too much faith in special effects and adolescent humor doom this "Babe" wannabe.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's a terrible picture: ugly and illogical and clumsily staged and peppered with crude, witless humor.
Read Full Review >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 theres anything wrong, I missed the guinea pig character from the first movie, and Lucky, the leading animal character in the first film, doesnt 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 its 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.
