Review of Dolittle (2020) by Apostle485 — 20 Feb 2020

This might be the worst film that I have ever seen in theaters, and if not, it is still definitely in the bottom three. It seemed that nobody involved with the making of this film really cared at all. Robert Downey completely half-assed his performance, which included a frustratingly inconsistent "British" accent which at most points sounded like somebody doing a bad Scottish accent.

All the animals in the film were completely forgettable or incredibly annoying. The squirrel character in particular was painful to watch because of how unfunny he was. The presentation of this film was completely forgettable.

The cinematography might have been impressive at some points if the film wasn't so engulfed in CGI, but for the most part it was bland. I literally don't remember anything about the music of this film.

The plot was pretty dumb as well. The pirate captain character went from hating Dolittle's guts to helping Dolittle on his journey in the span of around 5 minutes, and as far as I know, there was no reason for this change of heart except that it was needed to progress the plot.

The climax of the story is utterly stupid, and culminated in a ridiculously juvenile scene involving a dragon. There were tons of little inconsistencies in the film as well, and things were very poorly explained throughout, but I can't be compelled to go into depth about them here because I don't feel like dedicating any more effort to thinking about this dumb film.

I'd probably recommend it for children, but even then, there are hundreds of children's films that are better than Dolittle.