Jackson Booth-Millard The first film was pretty funny, and the sequel wasn't absolutely awful, and what is the one thing that is inadvisable when you can't the big leading star to do another one, a straight to DVD film, but here it is. Basically Dr. John Dolittle's youngest daughter Maya (Kyla Pratt) has grown into a teenager, and has evolved considerably gaining the full ability to talk to animals, just like her father, and despite being an antisocial individual more interested in scientific projects. Believing herself to a freakish gift, and getting in a little bit of trouble with her mother Lisa (Kristen Wilson) catching her with mischievous friends, Maya is sent with and dog Lucky (Norm MacDonald) to the Durango ranch. She is hoping there to find herself, it is owned by Jud Jones (John Amos), with his son Bo Jones (Walker Howard) by his side, and the place is surrounded by animals from the near woodlands, and of course the stable horses. While there Maya is making sure no-one suspects her of being different, giving herself a fake surname, and she tries her best but fails when animals come up to her and want problems solved or just chats. But her talent comes in very useful when a neighbouring ranch wants to take over and Maya reveals her real self, use her ability to help save Durango, she in fact gains more respect that rejection she expected. So the ranch enter themselves against their rival in the local rodeo competition to win the $50,000 prize, which of course they do, and in the end Maya gets her first kiss with love interest Bo. Also starring Luciana Carro as Brooklyn Webster, Tommy Snider as Clayton, Chelan Simmons as Vivica, Phil Proctor as Stray Dog and Drunk Monkey, Paulo Costanzo as Cogburn the Rooster, Friends' Maggie Wheeler as Brown Hen and Fluffy Hen and Gary Busey as Butch. Pratt has grown into a very attractive young woman, if it wasn't for her prancing around (forgive the pun) I may have turned off, although saying that, I was bored throughout. With its TV made feel, and the most atrocious cheesy dialogue, including from the animals with their not as interesting as maybe previously special effects, this is an absolutely awful sequel fantasy comedy. Pretty poor!

Wizard-8 When I saw the first "Dr. Dolittle" movie (on free TV, naturally - there was no way I was going to pay to see it!), I thought that would be enough for me. I didn't see part 2. But when the opportunity to see this sequel came to me, I decided to take a chance, seeing that Eddie Murphy (an actor I can't stand) wasn't in it. (As well, I got a free opportunity to see this movie as well.) For a made-for-DVD movie, the production values are pretty good. Not theatrically lavish, but the movie looked pretty good. The movie has some positive messages about being yourself, and the humor is not as crude as some other "family" movies (though there is the occasional questionable element, like one teen being socked in the crotch, and one animal saying he has the "runs".) That's about all I can say that's positive about this movie.The characters (except maybe for the ranch boss and his son) aren't very likable (even the female heroine.) The movie is also stretched out noticeably - there's about enough story for an hour-long drama for TV (with commercials.) It doesn't help that the story is VERY predictable. There is also the problem I had with the first movie - if the animals are so smart to be able to communicate with the Dolittles, then why do they act like stupid animals with the other humans instead of doing what they think? (And why does no one notice their mouth movements when they are speaking to a Dolittle?) I've seen plenty of worse made-for-DVD movies, but I was still seriously bored, and I think older viewers will feel the same. There must have been plenty of young fans of this movie, because as of this date, there have been TWO MORE sequels in this series sent to video stores! Kids might like these movies, but parents, you can surely expose them to better family movies than this! P.S. - Gary Busey must have REALLY needed the money to have contributed to this movie!

Andris Barshney My mom put this on our rental queue, and I did some research on it while it sat there while it snaked it's way to the top of the list. It was here at IMDb that I saw Red Flags, a shortened way of saying "things that indicate that the movie you are going to see is going to be a painful experience that you're probably going to turn off to stop the pain". First off, no Eddie Murphy. Let's think about this, people: a sequel to a film whose main character isn't even present for. If the MOVIE is called Dr. Dolittle 3, I think you'd expect Dr. Dolittle to be there in some physical way. In other words, if they really wanted to waste some cash on a movie that shouldn't have been green lit but was because of a studio believing in capitalizing on franchises instead of releasing quality films, they should have renamed it. Second Red Flag: hordes of reviewers calling it a "family movie". I'm sorry people, but if you're calling it a "family movie" it tends to be a euphemism for "hokey garbage that you hope will entertain your kids for 2 hours while you pray to God for it to end". Red Flag #3, the fact that this was a straight to film release, a MAJOR sign of mediocrity/ disappointment being eminent: frankly, I don't know why production companies even release projects that are straight to video, they may as well just pull the plug on the project and get a refund much like the disappointed viewers who feel like they've been conned by the film companies. The 4th Red Flag came when it arrived and we forced ourselves to watch it. 10 minutes later, the movie was turned off: none of us could sit through it because it was horrible and you could feel the financial failure pulsating through every frame. In other words, you're getting a jaded movie review here because I didn't even bother to watch the entire feature, and I'm pretty sure you understand why.

tulkask2 At the beginning you see the director focusing on other character of the Dolittle family, the teenager daughter of Dr. Doolittle, trying to give the movie a fresh twist. But folks the only thing it did was make this film flat, with a very few laughs, no charisma and in a horrifying way of being predictable in almost of the movie, it's like you can see how its gonna end after you've watch the firsts 15 min.In conclusion this movie its not even good to entertain kids, I don'trecommend this one, just skip it. The only thing i get from Dr. Dolittle 3 is that i miss Eddy Murphy's way of making me laugh until my lungs come out from my nose holes...