Robert Downey Jr. riffed with a raccoon in the “Avengers” movies but gets a whole menagerie of chatty critters in “Dolittle,” an adventure that’s mainly for the youngest Iron Man fans.
) and a couple of bantering frenemies in Plimpton the idiosyncratic ostrich and the always-cold polar bear Yoshi . Just after Dolittle and Tommy cement their friendship, the vet is called to Buckingham Palace, where he finds out that Queen Victoria is deathly ill, and he must venture with his peeps to mythical Eden Tree Island to find the cure.
Downey imbues Dolittle with wily eccentricity and an abundance of smarts: Instead of his abilities being a superpower, the ways he talks with every animal species is more of a learned thing, and Downey sells that intelligence. 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.Robert Downey Jr.
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. 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.
Instead of being a franchise starter that roars,"Dolittle" simply squeaks by without any real nuance.
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