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DOLITTLE


     Many of us -most especially the vets would give anything to understand what our beloved pets are saying. To know what every meow and woof signifies. But alas, we are not gifted that way.

     But the opposite was the case for Dr John Dolittle who could understand every animal there was -even a dragon- and communicate in their individual languages too.

      This  family adventure movie sees Robert Downey Junior(RDJ) take on a different, calmer role than his iconic Iron Man. 


Cast


Antonio Banderas (King Rassouli), Harry Collett, (Tom Stubbins).

Voice over actors involved in the movie were Emma Thompson (Polynesia the parrot), Rami Maleek (Chee Chee, the gorilla), John Cena (Yoshi the bear), Kumail Nanjiani (Plimpton the ostrich), Octavia Spencer (Dab Dab the duck), Tom Holland (Jip the lurcher), Craig Robinson (Kevin the squirrel), Selena Gomez (Betsy the Giraffe), Ralph Fiennes (Barry the Tiger), Marion Cotillard (Tutu the fox) 

      The story looks at the life of Dolittle, his loss and his adventure with his family. I guess you might think I mean father,.mother etc. Guess again. I mean the animals.

      When the Queen of England is poisoned, only Dolittle can cure her. Accompanied by his parrot, gorilla, bear, ostrich, squirrel, monkeys, bees, tick, rats, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve a cure that is said to not exist from a tree that also doesn't exist, in a place that… Well you get the picture. It was simply an impossible journey. 

As with every adventure movie,the journey is never known only the destination. There's sadness, run-ins with old rivals,turbulent seas but beneath it all, there's profound happiness in finding and belonging to a family.


     While watching, look out for the scene where he was bargaining with the ants for their unlocking skills by using sugar cubes, yeah sugar cubes.

And the famous Godfather line was brought back  too-You come to me with this today, on the day of my daughter's wedding-

This was also the first movie after Avengers Endgame, where RDJ and Tom Holland (Jip) were cast side by side though Tom acted as a voice over. John Cena was also entertaining as a bear.

Though the reviews from rotten tomato and metacritic are disturbingly low, it doesn't change the fact that the movie is interesting.

I do hope a sequel happens.

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