I love it when a movie is so bad it overrides Laura's initial instinct that were just here to see Brad and she starts ranting. Like, yes, Laura! Rip this to shreds!
You know a movie is bad when Brad and Laura just jump right into talking about it and there's no five-minute prelude where they talk about other stuff in the beginning of the video.
What sucks so much is that this could have worked. Like Brad said, had they done the old school adventure movie that they probably wanted to, this could have been decent.
When I saw the first trailer I was genuinely looking forward to this because that's what I thought they were going to do, then I saw later clips and my interest plummeted. It's a shame too, because this is one of those stories that would actually benefit from being updated and remade (especially considering the last movie that was close to the books, the 1967 one, had a really unlikeable Dolittle and a bunch of views on women/race which did NOT age well for obvious reasons). The bare bones of the story make for a simple, fun, out-there adventure and the fact they managed to bugger that up is impressive.
When I first saw that trailer, and it had this epic and emotional music, but no dialogue with it, and the occasional line sounded like comic relief, I *knew* there was some kind of deception going on.
Alexophor The trailer seemed both obnoxious and trying to hide obnoxiousness. I was a tiny bit hopeful that it would be kind of this silly epic story like the original book with a few juvenile jokes for the kids. Which I would have been perfectly fine with. But I think I’d rather watch the Eddie Murphy version lol
Speaking of bad movies, anyone notice Netflix just released a brand-new Tyler Perry movie? Like they’re trying to sneak it out behind Brad’s back or something?
I kinda thought that this movie would do okay, maybe not super well, but; okay enough. Oh how wrong I was. Super glad I didn’t rush out to go and see it, because; I am definitely not now.
As someone who absolutely loves “WTF even is this” type movies just hearing about the “dragons ass” scene has me sold on using my Unlimited card to see this when it opens in the UK,
I can only assume RDJ wanted to do something like when he did Chaplin. Something different, play around with the accent and take on a new persona. But this final product...oh boy
FWIW this movie was originally supposed to be released before Infinity War even came out. But then reshoots... and more reshoots... and new director... and MORE reshoots...
I checked the MPAA rating for Doctor Doolittle and it is rated PG. This is surprising considering what Cinema Snob and the woman in the car with him said about the content of the film, which sounds like the humor is closer to adult content of a PG-13 rated Austin Powers movie. The other day, my next door neighbors were taking their young granddaughters to see this movie. I wonder what they thought about it. I really like Robert Downey Jr. too and he was awesome in the Ironman movies. Any movie he’s in, he gives it ALL of his energy to play the part he’s cast in. I don’t think we have to worry much about him being in many bad movies because he’s always doing something different.
Weren't you paying attention, they clearly loved it. I mean look at how often they mention the farting dragon scene, it was the highlight of the movie.
Based on what you guys are saying I would love to read some early scripts for this movie particularly the script before the reshoots where done. Not going to happen but even better would be if they released a version of this movie prereshoots. I am so fascinated and curious what the original intent for this movie was!!!
Jerry Cantrell endorsed this movie on his IG, and I'm going to take the pain away by telling myself it's because he knew someone involved in the music production.
In the trailer when the polar bear roars the shot looks exactly, I mean exactly like the bear in the film "The Golden Compass". As if it were cut & pasted.
YOu know at least the Rex Harrison 60s version has that 60s' ambition in movies that Hollywood is clearly lacking these days. I dunno, maybe I just have a nostalgic soft spot for it
Jesus, poor laura. The movie broke her. Brad has a thick skin after years of B flicks but laura has been emotionally scarred...I keep imaging her angrily stomping through a park, kicking squirrels and ducks as she scowls..."I HATE THIS MOVIE!!!"
You know this was a bomb when they had to use a dragon in the trailer to push sales. The first 10 seconds of this review just validated every bad feeling I got and why suddenly RDJ is more than willing to reprise Tony Stark.
To be fair, the same studio thought a second remake of "Black Christmas" and a 100 million plus adaptation of "Cats" were gonna be solid competition against "Star Wars".
Brad looking INSANE to start us off here! I figured something was amiss when the music for the trailer was a lame version of "What A Wonderful World" and not "If I Could Talk To The Animals". TBF if they were gonna do a musical number in the movie then sure don't use it in the trailer, but come ON!
The first 10 minutes of the movie I thought "this has been butchered in editing or there've been reshoots" Surely enough I read about it afterwards and I was right.
Holy shit, I didn't expect this movie of all to be this terrible :O I remember liking the book when I was a kid, which is why I never watched the Eddie Murphy movie. It looked like another stupid American comedy, with fart jokes and all, which I hate. Expected something more from this one, but ugh, sounds that it's even stupider. Poor doctor Dolittle, why do filmmakers torment him so.
The talk about the poor dubbing, and how it sounds like a different actor's voice is coming out of RDJ's body reminded me of a bad movie. "God's Gun," AKA "Diamante Lobo," from 1976. That movie had Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, and Richard Boone. Reportedly, none of them came back to dub their own voices. Lee Van Cleef's dub voice does a decent impression, but the guy's voice sounds too young to be coming out of Lee Van Cleef. Jack Palance may have actually done his voice, because if he didn't, then the guy who did had a spot on impression. Richard Boone's dub voice was terrible though, and didn't sound like him at all.
Boy am I glad I went to see Bad Boys 3 instead of this. As far as the disjointed loose ends all thru apparently this film went thru major re-shoots insisted on by the studio. It sounds like it was maybe a little worse than it turned out and they were trying to claw back some of that $175 million.
SPOILER, if anyone gives a s**t: in a mid-credit sequence, Michael Sheen is still alive after the fall, but then he's eaten alive by giant bats, after he had tried to talk to them.
You thought the dragon fart was bad? Were were you when Tuffnut & Rougnut Vomiting Fish Vomit into each others mouths and fed that to a baby dragon in front of all they're friends in Dragons: Race to The Edge? (A show people are convinced is a Masterpiece) I want a Documentary on Everything that went wrong with that!
I had faint hopes for this movie to be a fairly charming, maybe slightly weird, but enjoyable creation. I really liked the visual aesthetics in the trailer. I'm so, so disappointed.
The trailers for this film feel very misleading after watching this. I haven't seen the movie yet but the trailers really don't give off that vibe of comedy they're describing.
Probably not the first one to point that the movie's title is fairly accurate "do-little" and so it did not only for the audience but also film itself.
