Dolittle - 2020

 It was cute. Not extraordinary, but not bad.

Dr Dolittle can talk to animals and because of this he became so famous “even the Queen on England called on him”. She gifted him a big sanctuary for all creatures. He loved Lily the explorer, and together they travelled to save animals, until she left and died at sea. He retreated from the world in his grief.

Stubbins is supposed to hunt animals like his uncle, but he can’t shoot the ducks and is so sad when he hurts a squirrel, he follows Poly the parrot and brings the squirrel to Dolittle’s sanctuary. 

After some attempting by Dolittle at throwing everyone out, young Lady Rose enters saying he’s been summoned by the Queen because she’s ill and if she dies he loses the property of the sanctuary. Stubbins can now give him the squirrel to save.

When he sees the Queen, she’s been poisoned by nightshade and the only antidote comes from the Eden Tree. He leaves his stick-insect to spy and leaves on a boat with Stubbins and his animal friends. His first stop is the Monteverde island, full of bandits and more importantly King Rassouli, Lily’s father. John wants Lily’s journal, but that’s all the king has left of her; they are captured, John should be eaten by Barry the tiger, but they escape. Dr Blair Mudfly, after failing to cure the queen, has been sent to make sure Dolittle never returns, so now he steals Lily’s journal and sails for the Eden Tree.

Well, he didn’t really have to find the tree, he only had to stop Dolittle from taking the fruit of the Eden Tree back to the queen, that was all, he didn’t need to find it himself. I guess he just wanted to ‘beat Dolittle’ at it.

Anyway, king Rassouli admits they both miss Lily and that even if he hates John and would like him dead, Lily loved him and would want him to go on, so he frees John and gives him a boat.

The whales find Blair and they follow him to a secret island, to a cave where a fire dragon guards the tree. The dragon too has lost its mate, so they understand each other.

The dragon is also in pain for having eaten too many armours, and even a bagpipe, but feels much better after John’s help.

John can now get a fruit and hurries back to the queen.

They’re just at the last second, they were already declaring the queen dead, when John and his friends arrive, and Stubbins gives the fruit to the queen and she comes back alive, the almost-murderer is arrested and Stubbins is officially John’s apprentice like he wanted.

Dr John Dolittle - Robert Downey Jr

King Rassouli - Antonio Banderas

Blair - Michael Sheen

Lord Badgley - Jim Broadbent

Queen Victoria - Jessie Buckley

Stubbins - Harry Collett

Poli (the parrot) - Emma Thompson

Barry the tiget - Ralph Fiennes

Lady Rose - Carmel Laniado

Lily Dolittle - Kasia Smutniak

other animals: Rami Malek, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Tom Holland, John Cena.