Zookeeper
There are productions so embarrassing and totally devoid of humor that one wonders how they have been possible. “Zookeeper” is to be inserted in this very limited class where children and parents want, by agreement, pass their turn.
The zoo animals speak. And they are determined to give lessons to their keeper (Kevin James) who is unlucky in love. Thanks to their care, they will trust him and he became an inveterate seducer.
Kind of cross between “Madagascar” and “Dr. Dolittle”, “Zookeeper” feels good idea of the false start: to give a voice to wildlife and to make them converse with beings of flesh and bone. A premise already little original for a result that exceeds the famous “Gordy” on the level of mediocrity. Not that animal are not cute or endearing. No, as in the recent “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” are those that attract mammals constant attention, but not for the right reasons.
See an elephant scream of fear, two bears to pretend to fight, from a chimpanzee of “The Hangover 2″ multiply gestures and a lion can be confused with apologies to smile. Unless this trend is continuously supported at the bottom, which gives harrowing scenes, including that of a gorilla that acts like a man, drinking and seducing girls in a bar. What want to congratulate the four writers have imagined something so memorable. Especially the voices retained almost all famous people (Adam Sandler, Cher, Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Nick Nolte), are both bad and little used.
It’s not going much better on the side of humans which are unbearable. Kevin James is a great actor and he has no charm to get out of trouble. However, it is popular with the fairer sex, coming to seduce beautiful girls with her physique so common. In the lot, Rosario Dawson is much better impression than the one-dimensional Leslie Bibb, whereas the male distributions disappointing end to end. Donnie Wahlberg is ridiculed as a womanizer, while Ken Jeong – ubiquitous on the screens – continues to make Ken Jeong as was the case in both “Hangover”, “Furry Vengeance” and other “Transformers 3″.
Those poor struggling artisans like a devil in holy water. Not only the most insignificant gags follow one another (for example, our heroes learn to urinate properly to become a real man), but the moral is to the most worn-out appointment. As everyone knows, it must be yourself in the life of every day, believe in his good fortune, help his friends and never get discouraged. All this is recalled by a gorilla who is paid, by the way, a tribute to “King Kong”.
Recalling the old kung fu films of Shaw Brothers and even “The sense of humor” in the way of “guides” to teach the procedure to the main character, “Zookeeper” is an irrelevant story, where the humor, romance and emotion never work properly. We add to this interpretation and any staging limited Frank Coraci (who are sympathetic to the “The Wedding Singer” and the annoying “Click”, “The Waterboy” and “Around the World in 80 Days”) and this gives an feature films the least pleasing of the year where everything was run on paper crashed miserably on the screen.
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