Dolittle 4K 2020 Ultra HD 2160p

Dr. Dolittle is a renowned veterinarian who lives in Victorian England. Seven years ago, he lost his wife and since then began to live as a recluse in his estate walled by high walls. His only company is rare animals. But once the life of the young queen is in jeopardy, and only Doolittle can help her. He needs to go on an amazing journey to the mythical island, where he begins the search for medicine, and also makes acquaintances with new exotic creatures.

Dolittle 4K Review
Dr. John Dolittle was born about a hundred years ago in the trenches of the First World War: in the letters from the front of Hugh John Lofting, the first drawings appeared with a kind doctor, conducting dialogs with animals, which over time turned into a series of books about travels, adventures and selfless help to our smaller brothers .

The first notable film adaptation was the 1967 musical, which nearly drowned the 20th Century Fox studio that released it (ultimately, it was not possible to stay afloat: it was recently swallowed by Disney). The shootings took about four years, because of the zoo on the site the budget was constantly growing, and it was not easy to manage the animals - either the pigs would grow, the trained squad would not be allowed to cross the border, then the ducks would not swim. Nevertheless, the film, which brought home two times less than its budget at home, was nominated for an Oscar in several categories (but here they suspect the bribery of film academics). After almost 30 years, the lack of bonuses more than paid for the audience's love for Eddie Murphy and Dr. Doolittle in 1998. In addition to the fact that now the film can confidently be put on the shelf of the classics of the family comedy of the 90s, Dr. Murphy also healed a historical wound - there was a dubious moment in Lofting’s book (which will later cut out censorship), where the overseas prince politically asks him to “bleach”, and the doctor manages to do this.

And then Dr. Doolittle, another 20 years later, again on the screens with the face of Robert Downey Jr., who had just left the Marvel Cinema Universe. As in the original book, Victorian England is guessed in the setting, however, it looks more like a fairy tale conception: in a certain kingdom, in a certain state ... the once brilliant doctor closed his fluffy leper colony for visits and is in severe clinical depression. From the animated sideshow, we learn that the brave Mrs. Lily Dolittle died, and Dr. John cannot find the strength to heal his mental health or the shaggy legs of his only interlocutors. The case finds the doctor himself - you need to save the English queen (Jesse Buckley from the Chernobyl series) from an ailment, only a magical flower that grows in a magical nowhere will help. A ship, like an ark, sets off, adventure begins. However, the description of the story on paper takes longer than the action on the screen.

Events succeed each other with cosmic speed, and it seems that the plot is like a shark - should he stop or at least freeze for a second to think what is happening, how everything and everyone around will die. The script is reminiscent of a letter from Prostokvashino, where everyone participated: the director of the film Oscar-winning Stephen Geigan (award for the best script for the film “Traffic”), and the authors of the series “How I Met Your Mother” Daniel Gregor and Doug Mand, and tailed and mustachioed, and there is nothing impossible in this story. At some point, all the laws of logic, the construction of a narrative, or some more or less well-thought-out rules of the magical universe recede back, leaving room for the creators' uncontrolled imagination. On the screen, everything strumming, knocking, growling, quacking, yelling, flying, falling in random order, many beautiful and detailed details replace each other and sweep on the screen so quickly that I want to look back to see what exactly was there.

Dr. Downey looks like the captain Jack Sparrow’s brother lost in childhood - he wears a hat, finds out his relationship with his father-in-law, and wanders up and down the deck before throwing another eccentric trick. After 30 minutes of chaotic katavasia on the screen, toothless, but harmless jokes, racing on ostriches, taking the Buckingham Palace into custody with a dog with glasses and talking with an aquarium octopus, irritation itself is replaced by emotion, and there is a possibility that the viewer may become a victim of Stockholm syndrome: if the invader cannot be overcome, it remains only to love him. Despite all the randomness and straightforwardness of what is happening, the film is simply kind and naive and, judging by the reaction of the audience, evokes a response from its viewer - one who is under five years old. The American PG rating (recommended for viewing with parents) is closer to the truth than the domestic 12+. Not only age restrictions have changed in our box office, from the original to the Russian screens only Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas and Jim Broadbent came in a couple of scenes, and the Sia song in the credits: neither Emma Thompson, nor Rami Malik, nor Tom Holland, nor Rafe Fiennes, Marion Cotillard, Octavia Spencer, Kumail Nanjiani, the viewer will not hear.

All this mottled crowd voiced by the stars is related by one common misfortune. In the 21st century of introverted experiences, psychological injuries are not alien to polar bears, and fanged tigers, and cowardly monkeys, and fire-breathing dragons - someone did not like someone in childhood, someone does not correspond to stereotypes about her appearance, and someone can’t survive the death of a loved one. Dr. Doolittle eventually turns into a psychotherapist rather than a doctor in broken wings (although it could not do without medical procedures). In the end, the fluffy-feathered squad, led by a good doctor, will defeat all the villains who conceived the palace coup to remove the queen, and all their weaknesses and psychological injuries, and in the finale everyone will be happy and healthy.

The question is whether Universal Studios can recover, which began the year with two releases - financial disasters: Dolittle crashes at the box office, like the recent Cats. Although, unlike the first defeat, Dr. Dolittle’s Amazing Journey is unlikely to be blamed for the low-quality picture, if the film has merit besides comprehensive shameless kindness from childhood, then this is a graphic that allowed animals to come to life, speak and spin in a rampant fair - a pirate booth.