For the first Film Club of the year, A.A. Dowd and Katie Rife are taking a look at Dolittle, the wholly unnecessary reboot of Hugh Lofting’s children’s lit series starring Robert Downey Jr. in his first post-Endgame film. Join our critics as they try to figure out who thought this was a good idea, and what the hell Downey is doing with that accent.
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Your post title supposes someone would want to watch this film.
It was more that they were the hostages held in your place.
Downey said he wasn’t doing another indie movie after The Judge was received indifferently.You’re actually wrong about Depp not doing indies: he was recently in a film released under the title “The Professor”, although originally titled “Richard Says Goodbye”, presumably to establish it as some sort of thematic sequel to director Wayne Robert’s debut “Katie Says Goodbye” starring Olivia Cooke.
One of the great children’s stories The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle should have a built in audience on a perennially recurring basis. Yet somehow it never clicked (not counting Eddie Murphy’s update which was more of an EM movie).
And then RDJ was like….
I thought that was an interesting review, but please, less of the giggling and laughing next time, it’s unnecessary, really distracts from the quality of the review, and becomes irritating very quickly.