Review of We Bought a Zoo (2011) by Ibrahim M — 28 Jan 2013

You can't go too wrong with a movie that stars Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, that cute little girl (who was she?) and animals for pete's sake! It's a good story about a writer who is forced into the world of action (after a lifetime of observing) when his wife dies at about the same time as the newspaper he works for is downsizing.

I liked that he didn't get over his wife as soon as he saw the head zoo keeper (Scarlett) and that he kept talking about her even to Scarlett. I personally like a little more unpredictable action in a movie, it is a story that gets told a lot, but there were always those animals! Oh, yeah, the scene where Damon stares down a bear is some kind of wonderful.