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90Dr. Dolittle is a zoo-and a blast. [6 July 1998, p. 67]
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83Director Betty Thomas demonstrates her expertise at keeping indulgence at bay in even the coarsest of comic situations.
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75Too many adults have a tendency to confuse bad taste with evil influences; it's hard for them to see that the activities in "Doctor Dolittle,'' while rude and vulgar, are not violent or anti-social. The movie will not harm anyone.
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70A weird delight.
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60Isn't as sharp or consistent as Murphy's "The Nutty Professor," but it's an amusing, lightweight diversion.
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There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals.
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50An on-again, arf-again comedy. [26 June 1998, p. 54]
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50The talented Murphy is appealing here, performing with sincerity and restraint - a wise choice, since his co-stars are a menagerie of wisecracking animals.
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50Dr. Dolittle does do a lot of stuff right. [ 26 June 1998, p. 12 E]
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50Small children should be delighted by the menagerie of chatty critters, but their parents may be less than thrilled by what the animals have to say.
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50Given a choice between the puerile but essentially innocent whimsy of Dr. Dolittle and the dimwitted nastiness of, say, "Dirty Work," parents should be grateful for the Eddie Murphys and Jim Carreys of the world for at least providing a kinder, gentler option.
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50To his credit, Eddie Murphy knows it well enough to deliver a team-playing performance as the critter-phobic physician who reluctantly becomes the Albert Schweitzer of the animal kingdom.
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50Slim on story and rife with scatological jokes, the film may strike a chord with pre-teens but misses for an older crowd despite some nifty effects and broad humor.
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40It's a kiddie comedy that really shouldn't be on the big screen at all; it has all the creative range of an Afterschool Special.
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40Nat Mauldin and Larry Levin's screenplay, indifferently directed by Betty Thomas, is simply an excuse for tired scatological jokes involving animal characters with the voices of well-known actors.
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38It's a cloying, humorless motion picture whose only assets are the work of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and a couple of good one-liners by a pair of rodents.
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30A complete waste of time and potential.
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25The animals are cute and Murphy gives a lively performance, but as with his remake of "The Nutty Professor," the original is still the best.
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25Runs out of ideas long before the projector runs out of film.
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20The humor is boring and in most spots inappropriate for children.
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lynda9Great family film.