First, the movie's release date got pushed back, which isn't that rare for big blockbuster tentpoles. It was odd, like if David Mamet signed up to adapt Amelia Bedelia.
Robert Downey Jr.'s version of Dolittle, the character from the children's books by English writer Hugh Lofting, was first announced back in 2017 with the slightly more ambitious-sounding title The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, and I remember the thing that stood out at the time was that Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of issue-driven dramas like Traffic and Syriana, was set to write and direct. No touching!!! | Universalĭan Jackson: OK, I have a confession to make: I spent an embarrassing amount of time reading about the production of Dolittle on the internet before seeing this movie.
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We may not be able to talk to animals, but at least we can talk to each other about how strange this movie was. The tale of a doctor who can talk to animals - voiced by a random group of celebrities including Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, Kumail Nanjiani, and John Cena - has all the makings of a Cats-esque fiasco: a troubled production, an awkward marketing campaign, and lots of digital fur.īut is it really that bad? Or is it the rare cinematic debacle that's actually good? It's rarely fun to sit through a likely-to-be-awful movie, but Thrillist staffers Emma Stefansky and Dan Jackson boarded the seemingly doomed voyage of Dolittle to discover exactly what happens when Iron Man dons a pair of goofy glasses, does a Welsh accent, and starts grunting like a polar bear. How exactly does a movie like Dolittle happen? Already earning brutal reviews and tracking to disappoint at the box office, Robert Downey Jr.'s first star vehicle since exiting the safe confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe looks like it could be the first major flop of the year.
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