| 80 |
Variety
Even more family-friendly than its immensely popular predecessor.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
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
Wholesome entertainment that will please the under-10 crowd without boring their parents.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Cute, crude and good-hearted movie.
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| 70 |
Salon.com
The good-natured silliness of it all kept me laughing.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
Cleaner, cuter animal antics.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious.
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| 63 |
USA Today
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
Pure situation comedy, and it's still fresh enough to provoke laughs.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
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
Murphy's second outing as the M.D. who talks to the animals is surprisingly engaging.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Brings bite as well as bark to the funnier sequel.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
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
There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance.
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| 50 |
New Times (L.A.)
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
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
A tired, cobbled-together concoction.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
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
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
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
Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
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
Alleged family fun.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
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
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.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Best news: over in 87 minutes.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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
It's a terrible picture: ugly and illogical and clumsily staged and peppered with crude, witless humor.
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