Product Description

Superstar Eddie Murphy is back as Dolittle, the beloved doctor with the up-ROAR-ious critter-communicating talents. This time around Dolittle plays Cupid to bumbling circus bear to help a group of forest creatures save their habitat. With the aid of his mangy, madcap animal friends, Dolittle must teach this overgrown teddy the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28465 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE
• Released on: 2001-10-23
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 87 minutes

Amazon.com
It's only a marginal improvement, but Dr. Dolittle 2 defies the odds by rising above its popular 1998 predecessor (and once again, let's not confuse these movies with the earlier Rex Harrison musical). Eddie Murphy cakewalks through his title role with the confident professionalism of a comedian who knows when to share the spotlight--especially when he's being upstaged by a bunch of animals who steal all the punch lines. And once again the movie's aimed at a preteen audience, so many of those punch lines involve flatulence, bodily functions, and frequent use of the word butt.

The difference this time: Dr. Dolittle has settled into his talk-to-the-animals routine; his 16-year-old daughter (Raven-Symone) is getting to be a feisty handful (it turns out she's coping with a hereditary gift); and his lawyer wife (Kristen Wilson) is representing him in a trial against corporate villains who want to clear-cut a local forest. Naturally, the local critter mafia (their Don is a beaver... fugeddaboutit!) want Dolittle to fight for their cause, and this involves the successful mating of an endangered bear and a domesticated circus bear who's forgotten all the bear necessities of life in the wild. The bears are voiced by Lisa Kudrow and Steve Zahn, and they almost steal the show, but the whole menagerie (with digitally animated "talking") is equally amusing. Adults might wish that the filmmakers had tried harder to make a truly memorable sequel, but this is a movie for kids, and they're going to love it without quibbling. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Eddie Murphy talks to animals again in this mercifully short, briskly directed sequel to his 1998 hit. As wildlife's favorite veterinarian, Dolittle facilitates a romance between a circus bear (voiced by the incomparable Steve Zahn) and an endangered female bear (voiced sweetly by Lisa Kudrow) while trying to save a forest from destruction. It's a good-natured film that offers the welcome tonic of a blend of talented voices rising above the bombast. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Dr. Dolittle 2
This is a very good movie and has a lot of funny stuff in it. It is a story of a man who can talk to animals. He goes on vacation and has a fight with his sixteen year old daughter. He finds out that they are going to cut down the woods for lumber. So he needs to put an endangered spececs into the woods. He gets a sing and dance bear that has never lived in the woods. He tries to get a bear in the woods that is the same kind as "Archie" (the bear). It is a very good movie, especially for mid aged kids around 9-14 because there are a lot of jokes that would be over younger kids heads. So its a good movie to go see or rent on a rainy day, it is better than the first one. It is nothing special though.

Dr Doolittle 2
The sequel to the very popular DR DOOLITTLE delivers again in DR DOOLITTLE 2. Eddie Murphy and Norm McDonald return in this great family comedy. You can bet that there are more great laughs and again that same cute comedy is in this one.

John Doolittle (Murphy) now a world renowned medical doctor for both humans and animals is called to action because an endangered species of bears is becoming more at risk. It's up to Dr Doolittle to find a perfect mating pair and get them to mate. He has one problem though, the male bear that he finds is Archie (Steve Zahn) and he's been in captivity all his life and doesn't know anything about living in the wild. It's up to Dr Doolittle and Lucky (Norm McDonald) to teach Archie the ropes so that he can become a wild bear and mate with a female.

I thought that this one had it's share of laughs. The little iguana is really funny and Archie the bear is pretty funny too. Plus the rest of the animals in the forest are pretty funny. My only problem is that as usual, a ferret is portraying a weasel. Although ferrets are very closely related to them, It was a bit silly on why they didn't just get a weasel. And a cameo by the Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin doesn't hurt.

This is another great family comedy that kids will love not only for the animals but because it has a lot of child related comedy and adults will laugh at this one too. Check out DR DOOLITTLE 2 and don't forget to get DR DOOLITTLE!

More better than the predessor
"Dr. Dolittle 2" is a large improvement over the first one. First of all, less obsenity and more funnier jokes (most of them are body humor, but it's all in good, clean fun).

What also helps is the voices used for the newer characters. Lisa Kudrow (horrible in "Friends") is perfect as the female bear, and Steve Zahn (terrific in "Joy Ride") is almost the scene-stealer in this movie with laugh-out-funny jokes circus bear, and the forest characters are funny too.

This is a perfect family movie, without the vulgarity and less crude humor than the 1998 "Dr. Dolittle." Rated PG for language and some crude humor.