OK, Downey has had a great career. He’s entitled to screw up once in a while.
“Zero stars. Everyone knows that if you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all. Less well known is the adage: ‘You can’t publish a movie review that is entirely blank.'”
“Just when I thought Dolittle couldn’t get any less funny or idiotic, Robert Downey Jr. sticks his arms up a dragon’s asshole. And I do mean that literally.”
“There’s got to be a moment, as an actor watches himself on-screen pulling bagpipes out of a CGI dragon’s rear end, that he thinks, ‘Have I really fallen this far?'”
“Dolittle believes a vicious tiger named Barry getting kicked in the groin by a gorilla and exclaiming ‘Oh, my Barry berries!’ is the height of humor.”
“… like horse dung, with few laughs and no charm.”
“an unwatchable circus.”
“overproduced, charmless, tone-deaf misfire”
I thought that Downey when he made Chaplin was arguably the most talented actor around. There was nothing he couldn’t do and he made it seem effortless.
Then he became Iron Man. He was still perfect in the role, but once that heavy money stated coming he’s been phoning it in. I knew this movie was a zero when I saw the dragon.
The most WTF part: It’s written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, the guy who brought you Traffic and Syriana.