Look, I'm going to level with you: Dolittle is the movie equivalent of lukewarm chicken nuggets. It's not going to hurt anyone, but nobody's going to be excited about it either.

This 2020 reboot was critically savaged and became something of a punchline in Hollywood (it reportedly lost Universal over $100 million). The premise is fine—grieving doctor who talks to animals goes on an adventure—but the execution is bafflingly off. Robert Downey Jr.'s Welsh accent is distracting, the CGI animals lack personality despite A-list voice actors, and the humor skews so juvenile that even many kids found it tedious.

The only real upside? It's harmless. If you need 101 minutes of babysitting on a rainy afternoon and your kids are in that sweet spot of 5-8 years old where talking animals are still inherently entertaining regardless of quality, it'll do the job. But there are so many better family adventure movies out there—even the original Eddie Murphy Dolittle films have more charm.

This isn't a movie kids will remember or ask to rewatch. It's filler content that happens to be safe. Sometimes that's all you need, but let's not pretend it's more than that.