Robert Downey Jr tries too hard, fully aware he's signed up for a tonally inconsistent train wreck.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 15, 2024

All in all, Dolittle is a massive fail at all levels. It was meant to be one of the worst movies of the year, and it undoubtedly accomplished this goal.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 24, 2023

It's not hilarious but it is cheerful, good to look at, and has surely at least managed a pass.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Not even Robert Downey Jr. hamming it up and acting eccentric and weird is enough to rescue this new adaptation of The Story of Doctor Dolittle from the dregs of awfulness. Director Stephen Gaghan struggles with bringing this type of material to life.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 22, 2022

While “Dolittle” might be a slightly better movie than Harrison’s mess, it’s still hard not to see this as a sad case of history repeating itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

One of the laziest films I have ever seen, taking its name as a mission statement and running with it on multiple fronts.

| Original Score: 2/10 | May 13, 2022

neither than a triumph not a disaster, this is a sturdy, if uninspired family film

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2022

It's honestly not that bad of a movie. I think... if this movie had come out prior to Iron Man then we may have been a little bit more forgiving and more willing to go along for the ride.

| Sep 15, 2021

The entire movie is incredibly uneven and discombobulated.

| Original Score: 2 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021

The VFX team do an impeccable job bringing the animals to life; however, the film's lowbrow sense of humour reduces the elegance of the visuals.

| Original Score: 10/20 | Apr 1, 2021

Dolittle suffers, a bit, from having so many characters, so many moving parts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 28, 2021

Dolittle barely pays attention to its story, and its three villains scream their characters' bad intentions well before they are actually revealed.

| Feb 17, 2021

Downey brings a sense of bemused confusion, topped with a mealy-mouthed Billy Connolly impression that changes from scene to scene. It's a pantomime performance that makes the best of his finely tuned comic timing but feels sloppy and needlessly mannered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2021

The story is silly and hyperbolic. The performances are manic, at times ... But Dolittle is sure to charm a new generation of kids willing to take a journey into a magical world of talking animals and their one-of-a-kind hero.

| Jan 28, 2021

The story is barely comprehensible, clearly patched together after extensive reshoots, and the final result is a bloated, expensive mess.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 15, 2021

The film lacks energy and proves to be nothing more than a collection of questionable narrative and acting choice that results in a movie that's a laughable bore

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

Dolittle isn't even good-bad. It's just bad-bad.

| Nov 17, 2020

Much of Dolittle is dull and makes little narrative sense and judging by the reactions of the kids in my theatre, at times a tad too dark and kind of boring.

| Oct 19, 2020

There are problems all over the shop here, with almost every story turn truncated and rushed as if the narrative has been repeatedly chopped, reshaped and tangled.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2020

A spectacularly ugly exercise in focus-groupthink that tries to please everyone, and thus inevitably pleases no one.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 21, 2020