- Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious musical production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and singing sensations! Rex Harrison is unforgettable in this inspiring adaptation of Hugh Lofting’sic stories.Step into the English country h
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Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious musical production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and singing sensations! Rex Harrison is unforgettable in this inspiring adaptation of Hugh Lofting’s classic stories. Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on the wildest … More >>
1967 was a great year for the film industry, on par with 1939 for the number of classic films that were released. Filmmakers broke new ground, with daring portrayals of sex, violence, racial strife, the generation gap and interracial marriage. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences almost got it right. The Best Picture nominees were: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and …
Dr. Dolittle?
Here is a short list of 1967 films that were passed over for the top prize: Cool Hand Luke, Camelot, The Dirty Dozen, The Taming of the Shrew, Two for the Road and Barefoot in the Park. Two hours of push-me-pull-you’s, bloated production values and Rex Harrison’s interminable sing-talking (we had enough of this in My Fair Lady) has no business being mentioned with in the same breath as Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night. Thankfully, In the Heat of the Night won for Best Picture, avoiding the later travestys of films like Out of Africa, Dances with Wolves and The English Patient winning the award. It’s just too bad that the Academy had to nominate uninspired dreck like Dr. Dolittle and put a stain on what was an otherwise outstanding year for both the industry and the MPAA. Big and bloated does not equal the best.
Rating: 1 / 5
I had forgotten how boring Rex Harrison was. It didn’t take long to remember why I didn’t remember much about this movie. Harrison’s performance demonstrates how muddled and off key the “songs” are and the miscasting of the actors. This is a movie for the under 6 year olds. The remake with Eddie Murphy is so much better being a comedy and no musical numbers.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have recieved the dvd and couldnt play it as it was on a usa tracking system so it cannt be played in great britain i think it would be worth mentioning this when selling these kind of products. I also didnt receive a return mailing address or i would have returned it
Rating: 1 / 5
The film will be good for kids. too many songs for my liking. i had to keep forwarding the songs. do not expect much spectacular special effects. acting of rex harrison was the only thing that will stand out.
Rating: 4 / 5
A movie called Dr. Dolittle and His Animals came out in 1928, but the story didn’t take off cinematically till Rex Harrison played Dr. Dolittle, the English country veterinarian who can not only speak 498 different animal languages (taught to him by his pet parrot), he can also carry a mean tune and proves it by breaking into song very often. Singing and winging his way to the South Seas, he means to find the elusive Great Pink Sea Snail and the Giant Lunar Moth (flanked by sidekicks Anthony Newly and Samantha Eggar).
Charming, despite its too-numerous musical numbers and ultimately absurd, aimless plot.
Staci Layne Wilson
Rating: 3 / 5