in which film does a doctor talk with his animal friends

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Who plays Dr Dolittle in animal kingdom?

Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dr. Dolittle, the famed fictional doctor turned veterinarian who is able to talk to the animals.

How many movies have animals with the ability to talk?

Over a hundred films that have at least one animal with the ability to talk, with both animated and live action films included. How many have you seen?

What is the best movie about animals?

50 best movies featuring animals. 1 1. Babe (1995) G | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family. 2 2. Mousehunt (1997) 3 3. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) 4 4. Iron Will (1994) 5 5. The Black Stallion (1979) More items

What was the name of the movie with snakes on a plane?

Snakes on a Plane (2006) Error: please try again. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. Votes: 137,938 | Gross: $34.02M

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Who plays John Dolittle in Doctor Dolittle?

In the new movie inspired by the Doctor Dolittle books, we first meet John Dolittle (Robert Downey Jr .) in an animated introductory sequence, lovely enough to be promising. The doctor can talk to animals — a skill he has learned, not an innate ability — which leads Dolittle to establish a veterinary hospital for patients with physical and psychological problems. But ever since the disappearance of his explorer wife, who went missing while on an expedition to find what’s known as the Eden Tree — said to be able to cure any ailment — Dolittle has closed his doors, shutting himself off from the world, save for a few animal friends.

Who plays Poly the Parrot in Dolittle?

Those doors open a crack when a tenderhearted boy named Tommy (Harry Collett) accidentally shoots a squirrel. Poly the parrot (voice of Emma Thompson) leads Tommy to Dolittle’s manor home — which must smell like a giant litter box — and convinces the doctor to treat the gunshot victim.

Can a CGI critter be in the same frame as a human?

As for the animation, it’s fine in close-up, but whenever a CGI critter appears in the same frame as a human being, man and beast don’t seem to be occupying the same screen. Or planet.

How did the black men get their animals?

They were very shy and terribly hard to catch. The black men get most of their animals by sneaking up behind them while they are not looking. But you could not do this with the pushmi–pullyu — because no matter which way you came towards him, he was always facing you. [ The Story of Doctor Dolittle]

What was the Newbery Medal for Doctor Dolittle?

While Lofting's The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle questionably won the 1923 Newbery Medal for best work of children's literature, contemporary publishers have since bowdlerized the original texts to better suit modern times. Cinematic adaptations of Dolittle have likewise failed to grapple with the story's racist and colonialist history.

Was Doctor Dolittle a racist?

But despite the pushmi–pullyu's twee appearance, the original Doctor Dolittle was nothing of the sort. In a 1968 bulletin, New York librarian Isabelle Suhl described Lofting as "a white racist and chauvinist, guilty of almost every prejudice known to modern white Western man.".