The ending of Robert Downey Jr.'s Dolittlewas underwhelming, and a key reason the blockbuster never took on as a franchise. The 2020 adaptation of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle book series saw ...

Dolittle begins with a tragedy. Dr. Dolittle (Downey)’s wife Lily (Kasia Smutniak) went on a voyage without him and died at sea. So Dolittle has been moping around the house with only the ...

This latest big-screen adaptation of Lofting’s stories – before the “Dr. Dolittle” movie series of the late 1990s and 2000 starring Eddie Murphy, there was the 1967 musical “Doctor ...

I regret to inform you that the new Dr. Dolittle movie comes out this weekend. This film, simply titled Dolittle, stars Robert Downey Jr. as a character who’s been played by several actors, but ...

In 1967, Twentieth Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of “Doctor Dolittle,” based on a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian ...

'Dolittle,' starring Robert Downey Jr., is Universal's latest live-action film. Learn about the surprisingly racist story which inspired the movie.

The movie, which is more in line with the books than the Eddie Murphy incarnation of the story, starts with a beautifully animated prologue that sets up the premise. We then follow a young man and an ...

They have to evade Mudfly (Michael Sheen), a rival of Dolittle’s who has been tasked by a villainous chairman (Jim Broadbent) to make sure the good doctor never returns.

It says something that one of the few surprising things about the first trailer for Dolittle is Robert Downey Jr.’s decision to attempt what sounds like a Welsh accent for the movie. (At least ...

Robert Downey Jr. stars as Dr. Dolittle, the famed fictional doctor turned veterinarian who is able to talk to the animals. (Video: Universal Pictures) ...

In 1967, Twentieth Century Fox undertook an expensive and complicated production of “Doctor Dolittle,” based on a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting, about a doctor in Victorian ...