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Ooofff. 15% on Rotten Tomatoes

posted 5 years ago by HarlemEagle42 (17735)
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Matt Singer calls it the first 'worst movie of 2020'. Poor RDJ.

https://screencrush.com/dolittle-2020-review/

[–] prolelol (1428) 5 years ago

Damn, I expected 50% or maybe more, but 15%? Lower than Cats?! I saw it, it's not that bad.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 5 years ago

Neither did I. At the most, this looked like a Jumanji cashin.

[–] prolelol (1428) 5 years ago

I thought the beginning scene, film editing and CGIs were nicely done. The story is simply OK. Robert Downey was good, the supporting characters were okay, at least. I can't say that it really impressed me, it's just a mildly entertaining kids movie. The Jungle Book and Maleficent movies were far better though. 6.5/10 from me.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1220) 5 years ago

Audience score is at 76%. Apparently the people who saw it, liked it, its just the professional critics who think it sucked balls.

So its a "worst movie" the same way Venom, Shaft, and Gods and Generals were.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17735) 5 years ago

If the Master of Disguise had a 76% audience score, I'd just as quickly assume, they're idiots w/o taste.

[–] ReelReviews14 (1220) 5 years ago

Master of Disguise has a 33% audience score. Audiences thought it sucked just liked the critics did.

Dolittle was a good movie. Idiots without taste are more akin to Man of Steel and Terminator: Dark Fate getting "positive" audience scores when they're soulless rehashes of far superior previous entries in their franchise.

[–] SisterSuzy101 (361) 5 years ago

"Audience score is at 76%. Apparently the people who saw it, liked it"

-Sorry, but relying exclusively on Rotten Tomatoes for public opinion on a movie is not good logic. In recent years, it's become widely rumoured to be controlling scores (for both critics and audiences) at the request of various studios and some of the scores have even been known to become altered by bots. The fact that The Ring (2002), despite being recognised as one of the best supernatural horror/thriller movies of it's decade, only has an audience score of 48% shows just how unreliable Rotten Tomatoes really is!

No, IMDb is much better for accuracy on public opinion, mostly likely because it's not (as far as we know yet) corrupt and hacked like the former, and it's much more widely used too. Dolittle only has 5.6 on IMDb which is considered poor these days for a massive studio production.

But regardless of what the online databases say, I highly doubt that general audiences were very thrilled by this adaptation of Doctor Dolittle after it's disappointing performance at the box office, despite being promoted well and having Robert Downey Jr. as the star. It won't be remembered in the years to come.