Seeing Dolittle ride crazily around on his feathery steed Plimpton, you wish they would have used that spiffy photorealistic “Lion King” technology.In terms of the non-furry cast, Antonio Banderas seems to have fun chewing scenery as a pirate king with a personal history with Dolittle, but Michael Sheen's villainous royal physician is forgettably one-dimensional as the doctor's mustache-twirling old rival. A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. "And so 'Dolittle' is absolutely relentless; a non-stop 100-minute assault of putrid gags, abysmal stunts, and celebrity vocal cameos. A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon. That’s a dragon fart.Nothing in Dolittle (or life) prepares you for a multi-minute sequence of Robert Downey Jr deciding, without much rhyme or reason, to have his animal companions turn a dragon on her back while he digs corpses from her asshole as she grunts and rips a massive fart.I had been warned over and over again before I went to see Dolittle, but nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could have prepared me for the visceral experience of having to watch Robert Downey Jr. pull a set of bagpipes out of a dragon's assOver the course of maybe 90 seconds that feels like five hours, Dolittle extracts the bones and armor of several Spanish soldiers, just ripping corpses from the dragon’s anus before finally arriving at the source of the blockage, a set of bagpipes.One of the biggest plot points of the new Dolittle movie involves RDJ performing a colonoscopy on a dragon to remove a set of bagpipes...that's all you need to knowI’m not one to give out spoilers, but feel like I need to make an exception this one time:I thought I had seen everything in my life, but then Dr. Dolittle gave a dragon a rectal exam.

"Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett) makes friends with ostrich Plimpton (voiced by Kumail Nanjiani), squirrel Kevin (Craig Robinson), polar bear Yoshi (John Cena), duck Dab-Dab (Octavia Spencer), gorilla Chee-Chee (Rami Malek) and parrot Polynesia (Emma Thompson) in "Dolittle." "John Cena's polar bear character shouts "Somebody call a doctor?" Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play. "This hints at how heavily rewritten Dolittle must have been. Seven years after his wife’s death at sea, John Dolittle (Downey Jr.) has become a hermit.

'Cats' is deranged, but it's still something. Dolittle and company - mostly talking animals and a boy who also loves animals (Harry Collett) head out in search of this tree on a secret island. "Dolittle is structured like it was written by a room full of monkeys lazily banging on typewriters between s----slinging, then cut together by a blind man with broken fingers.Fart jokes are nothing new to films geared towards children, but it seems like "Dolittle" has taken that gag to the extreme. The most fun is Kevin, a melodramatic rodent who harbors ill will toward Stubbins, though the digital effects that re-create these creatures are a mixed bag. A dog is hit by a car but walks away unharmed. That’s where young Tommy Stubbins (Harry Collett) finds him after the boy accidentally shoots a squirrel named Kevin (voiced by Craig Robinson). Dolittle also has a sense of danger and a hint of darkness, like this guy’s really seen some stuff in his day, which the movie teases in places but too often defaults back to predictable family-friendly thrills.Children will obviously love the zoo of animal personalities, and Gaghan has recruited an impressive voice cast including Downey’s Marvel BFF Tom Holland as bespectacled dog Jip, Octavia Spencer as maternal peg-legged duck Dab-Dab, and Ralph Fiennes as Barry, a vicious tiger and former patient of Dolittle’s with lingering anger issues. A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets. "Dolittle" is one of several films based on the stories of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. See Showtimes Apparently, Dolittle extracts a bagpipe from the dragon as it farts. Not playing Tony Stark/Iron Man.

When the world's best spy is turned into a pigeon, he must rely on his nerdy tech officer to save the world. A physician who can talk to animals embarks on an adventure to find a legendary island with a young apprentice and a crew of strange pets. But it's meant to be just that-ENJOYED. "Less well known is the adage: 'You can't publish a movie review that is entirely blank. Let's just tear him up. No crime in that is there?Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Those two in a sense symbolize how middling "Dolittle" is on the whole: For every really cool interaction Downey's hero has with one of his animals as a caring listener, there's either an over-the-top spit take or an eye-rolling cheesy line of dialogue.Instead of being a franchise starter that roars, "Dolittle" simply squeaks by without any real nuance.Robert Downey Jr. is the latest to take on the eccentric doctor who can talk to animals in the fantasy adventure "Dolittle. Scooby and the gang face their most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. "As for the animation, it's fine in close-up, but whenever a CGI critter appears in the same frame as a human being, man and beast don't seem to be occupying the same screen," she wrote. So again and again in one shot to the next, a character jolts from point A to point B without the connective tissue of their crossing.