Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 28
  2. Negative: 5 out of 28
  1. Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    80
    Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.
  2. 75
    Cute, crude and good-hearted movie.
  3. 75
    Wholesome entertainment that will please the under-10 crowd without boring their parents.
  4. 75
    What makes the "Dolittle" movies stand out from this menagerie is the superb casting and matching of the animals and their human voices.
  5. 70
    The good-natured silliness of it all kept me laughing.
  6. 63
    Cleaner, cuter animal antics.
  7. Pure situation comedy, and it's still fresh enough to provoke laughs.
  8. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    63
    It's the kind of material that is either going to make your day or not.
  9. Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
  10. Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    60
    Murphy's second outing as the M.D. who talks to the animals is surprisingly engaging.
  11. 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.
  12. 60
    Brings bite as well as bark to the funnier sequel.
  13. 58
    Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within.
  14. There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance.
  15. A tired, cobbled-together concoction.
  16. It is the Eddie Murphy movie where Eddie Murphy has next to nothing to do. Do little says it all.
  17. Reviewed by: Frank Lovece
    50
    Overall it's a funny film, but parents should decide if the anti-gay and misogynist elements are worth the laughs.
  18. 50
    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.
  19. 50
    It's dispiriting to watch him (Murphy) stand patiently by and concoct reaction shots for quipping raccoons and dancing bears.
  20. 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.
  21. 40
    At its best, Dr. Dolittle 2 is an inoffensive mish-mash of cute talking animals and their somewhat less-than-cute human buddies.
  22. Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity.
  23. 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.
  24. Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  25. 30
    Too much plot and too much faith in special effects and adolescent humor doom this "Babe" wannabe.
  26. 25
    It's a terrible picture: ugly and illogical and clumsily staged and peppered with crude, witless humor.
  27. 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.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. ChristopherG.
    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. Full Review »
  2. ChristopherG.
    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. Full Review »
  3. ChristopherG.
    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. Full Review »