Stars: Rex Harrison, Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar, William Dix, Richard Attenborough

Director: Richard Fleischer

Summary: A delightful blend of song, fun and fantasy, revolving around a 19th century English doctor who can talk to animals. Songs include 'Talk To The Animals'.

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Betty Thomas directs and Eddie Murphy stars in Doctor Dolittle, the 1998 hit film which, while ostensibly aimed at children, has a high quotient of hip and even mildly gross humour. Murphy stars as John Dolittle, whom we see as a child talking to a neighbourhood dog who explains that the reason mutts sniff each others' butts is to assess their characters when first meeting them. Little John promptly tries this out on being introduced to his school principal. Warned off such social eccentricity, Dolittle stops talking to animals and as an adult becomes a respectable doctor running his own medical practice--until a bump on the head revives his capacity to understand animals, whereupon mayhem, mortification and a menagerie of needy and freeloading creatures are heaped upon his ordered existence. Murphy plays it relatively straight. It's the animals, some of them vividly enhanced by Jim Henson's animating team, who provide the real laughs here, and a thoroughly worldly, wisecracking bunch of characters they prove to be. There's a couple of hard-boiled, squabbling rats, a pigeon who complains of impotence, Rocky the guinea pig (voiced by Chris Rock) with a neat line in hip backchat, while Albert Brooks voices the gruff, melancholy tiger whose life Dolittle must try to save. A sweet but by no means saccharine comedy.

On the DVD: The DVD edition features scene selection and a trailer. --David Stubbs

Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu
Year:	1967
Release Date:	March 26, 2007
Runtime:	138 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	0102501009
Keywords:	Music, English, Films, Doctor, Musical, Performing, Musicals, Arts, Dolittle
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts