Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
49
(28 sources)
49
(28 sources)
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80
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75
Baltimore Sun
What makes the "Dolittle" movies stand out from this menagerie is the superb casting and matching of the animals and their human voices. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Post
Wholesome entertainment that will please the under-10 crowd without boring their parents. Read Full Review » -
75
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70
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63
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63
Boston Globe
It's warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious. Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
It's the kind of material that is either going to make your day or not. Read Full Review » -
63
New York Daily News
Pure situation comedy, and it's still fresh enough to provoke laughs. Read Full Review » -
60
The New York Times
Mr. Murphy is not given much to do in this sloppy, good-hearted sequel, so he graciously allows himself to be upstaged by all manner of animatronic, celebrity-voiced talking animals. Read Full Review » -
60
Mr. Showbiz
Murphy's second outing as the M.D. who talks to the animals is surprisingly engaging. Read Full Review » -
60
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58
Entertainment Weekly
Murphy gives a reined in performance that, every so often, shows a spark of the ''Shrek''ish donkey within. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Tribune
There's barely a scene in this movie that taps his (Murphy) special brilliance. Read Full Review » -
50
New Times (L.A.)
It's a modest family comedy, probably fun for kids and reasonably cute, or at least not too insufferable, for most of the grownups who will take them. Read Full Review » -
50
TV Guide
Overall it's a funny film, but parents should decide if the anti-gay and misogynist elements are worth the laughs. Read Full Review » -
50
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50
Village Voice
It's dispiriting to watch him (Murphy) stand patiently by and concoct reaction shots for quipping raccoons and dancing bears. Read Full Review » -
50
San Francisco Chronicle
It is the Eddie Murphy movie where Eddie Murphy has next to nothing to do. Do little says it all. Read Full Review » -
50
LA Weekly
The best that the good doctor (Murphy) can do, encumbered as he is by Larry Levin's screenplay and its low joke quotient, is discipline the dog, lay into the lizard and shtick it to the bear. Read Full Review » -
40
Los Angeles Times
Its successful moments (and they are only moments) remind us that this is a squandered opportunity. Read Full Review » -
40
Austin Chronicle
At its best, Dr. Dolittle 2 is an inoffensive mish-mash of cute talking animals and their somewhat less-than-cute human buddies. Read Full Review » -
40
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30
Chicago Reader
Too much plot and too much faith in special effects and adolescent humor doom this "Babe" wannabe. Read Full Review » -
30
Wall Street Journal
Ever so slightly defective in the area of coherence; it plays as if it should have been written by a committee but they didn't bother to convene one. Read Full Review » -
30
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25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
All that's left are cute animals with animated mouths spitting out fitfully inspired one liners, sophomoric sexual innuendo and enough poop gags to last a lifetime. Read Full Review » -
25
Portland Oregonian
It's a terrible picture: ugly and illogical and clumsily staged and peppered with crude, witless humor. Read Full Review »
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