Storyline
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!
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90
Newsweek
Dr. Dolittle is a zoo-and a blast. [6 July 1998, p. 67]
83
Entertainment Weekly
Director Betty Thomas demonstrates her expertise at keeping indulgence at bay in even the coarsest of comic situations.
60
The New York Times
There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals.
50
L.A. Weekly
To 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.
50
Small 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.
