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When I saw this at the store, I thought great! A film that we can all sit around and enjoy together with my daughter. The story goes like this: Lisa Dolittle (Kristen Wilson) convinces her daughter Maya (Kyla Pratt) to attend a Dude ranch called Durango, in order to take a needed break from her problems at home and school to find herself. The Ranch is owned by Jud Jones (Jon Amos) and his son Bo Jones (Walker Howard). Maya has also inherited the ability to hear all animals talk just like the Dr. Dolittle from the other 2 films. While there, Maya struggles with various issues including competition from her bunking partners who include Brooklyn Webster (Luciano Carro). Maya begins to use her talent communicating with the animals in order to save Durango from being taken over by a neighboring Ranch. After watching the film for 10 minutes I began to quickly lose interest since the main character seemed really spoiled and narcissistic. Maya seems to turn out too perfect for words as she breezes through the film showing how her dancing and singing talents far outweigh anyone else. This teaches children to be arrogant, prejudiced, and stuck up. I don't think we have to be reminded above everything else how unfair life really is in teenage love and war. There are many more reasons why I couldn't bare to finish this film. It's not that there was not a story here to be told, however, things that tend to be tedious and mind numbing from the beginning don't really work for me. Let me just list a few things so that you will know I'm not just complaining. First off, there is no Eddie Murphy in the film. Making a sequel to a film without the main character should be considered heresy. If the film is called Dr. Dolittle 3, you would think that you would at least get a few minutes of Murphy or perhaps even some flashbacks or cameos or something. But no Eddie at all. In other words, if they really wanted to waste some cash on a movie that shouldn't have been green lit but was because of a studio believing in capitalizing on franchises instead of releasing quality films, they should have renamed it "The girl that talks to animals". There wasn't even a doctor theme to the whole film anyway. Second Red Flag: Hordes of small-time reviewers calling it a family movie. I'm sorry people, but if you're calling it a "family movie", that term tends to be a euphemism for hokey garbage that you hope will entertain your kids for 90 minutes while you pray for it to end without turning your children into imbeciles. Third Red Flag: The fact that this was a straight to video release. This usually marks a major sign for mediocrity including disappointment as being eminent. It's hard for me to understand why production companies even release projects that are straight to video, however, there is a churn and burn factor in every business including film production. Jon Amos was really good in Alex Haley's Roots in 1977 as he played the older Kunta Kinte (Toby). He really deserves much better roles in film than this, however he may be picking films that are close to home or something. Tommy Snyder as Clayton adds quite a bit of flavor to the film as he bullies his way around the screen at times. The character Brooklyn really takes the cake as she worms her way around to get with big boy Bo. Actually the monkey scenes actually stole the film. So, if you can make it that long through the film, then I'll have to say that that part might be worth the time.Read full review
Cute family movie that starts out a little slow but quickly gets to the heart of the story. I really would not consider this a continuation of the Dr. Dolittle movies made with Eddie Murphy although it is centered around his daughter and wife and his daughter's inability to "fit in" since she is known to be able to talk to the animals,which is not considered cool by her high school classmates. Maya finds herself at a Cowboy Camp for the summer to "find her real self" and she does. Good family movie with little to no unacceptable language ( I think Lucky the dog says "friggin" a few times and makes some reference to romancing the ladies, but other than that it is a pretty clean movie.) Fun movie with a happy ending... the underdogs win.. Hurray !!!
My son adores this movie!!! We previously owned one but he basically wore it out lol!! So needless to say he was so excited when he saw the menu page!! Thank you for an awesome product!!
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I got it for my granddaughter and we both loved it.
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