There's no denying it - Dolittle is a peculiar mess. For one, Robert Downey Jr. is uncharacteristically unlikeable as our titular doc, talking in a bizarrely subdued cadence and making odd acting choices (it's as if he wanted to show up Johnny Depp). There's also the fact that the story is fairly jumbled, perhaps leaving kids a little lost along the way. Making things worse, the many animals are given the laziest juvenile personalities one could imagine. The movie’s dialogue and infantile gags are also fairly lame here; enough to overshadow the few sparks of wondrous imagination we get. For example (and I kid you not), there is a scene where, in the process removing items from a dragon's rectum, our good doctor gets farted on... a lot. Dragon flatulence isn't quite how I expected Robert Downey Jr. to followed up his epic run as Iron Man. All this to say, Dolittle is one film that even animals should probably not be subjected to.