Review – Doctor Dolittle

Memory is a tricky thing. I distinctly remember enjoying this movie when I was a kid. But after re-watching it, I can’t imagine my pre-teen self voluntarily sitting through two and a half hours of anything this dull. I suppose I must have been entertained by the talking-to-the-animals parts. And the giant pink sea snail was cool in a parade float sort of way. Further, I don’t think I would have noticed the rampant sexism and racism back then (I was a fairly ignorant little kid). But ugh, then there’s the unending parade of musical numbers! With only one or two exceptions, every time a character begins speaking to thin air and the orchestra hits a note, the following minutes could easily have been cut. The result would have been a more entertaining – or at the very least shorter – kids’ movie. Mildly amusing