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I wasnt expectingDolittleto be good, exactly, but I wasnt expecting it to be quite this bad.
(Mark Harriss bookPictures at a Revolutionhas a great account of the making of that film.)
1998s Eddie MurphyBetty Thomas hitDr.
You go into this thing expecting silly insouciance and walk away from it questioning reality.
Jason Mantzoukas, apparently!
Watching the movie, it felt like the voices were in my head.
Maybe they were; I cant tell anymore.
The story hops around with whiplash-inducing lunacy, and not in a good way.
Every frame, every cut feels off.
But Im not sure we can entirely blame reshoots for this.
There is no onscreen evidence thatDolittle, in any iteration, was ever anything but hopelessly inert.
But its not like theres much energy to the humans interacting with other humans either.
Look, sometimes these things go south.
(Sometimes all of these things happen, and you getThe Island of Dr.
Frankly, Im often amazed any good movies get made at all.
