2020 · family · comedy · fantasy
Dolittle
Directed by Stephen Gaghan1h 41m2020
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.
Our read: Dolittle (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · comedy · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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