Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts – Dr. Dolittle 5 (2009)

Directed by: Alex Zamm | 90 minutes | comedy | Actors: Kyla Pratt, Jason Bryden, Doron Bell, Curtis Caravaggio, Sarah Deakins, Greg Ellis, Matthew Harrison, Mark Hillson, Karen Holness, Vicki Lewis, Brandon Jay McLaren, Tegan Moss

to the dr. Dolittle series seems to be never ending. Plays Eddie Murphy in ‘Doctor Dolittle’ (1998) and ‘Dr. Dolittle 2′ (2001) still stars as the comic doctor Dolittle, from the third film we have to do without him and the name recognition of the film is exploited by having his daughter Maya Dolittle (Kyla Pratt) play the lead role. Maya only wants one thing: to help animals. That is why she wants to study veterinary medicine. However, when she sees on the admission video and hears that she will have to study for seven years before she can really work with animals in practice, she loses heart. Just then, wealthy celebrity heiress Tiffany Monaco bursts into the house. Her Chihuahua has bouts of depression and Maya is flown by private jet to Beverly Hills to help the beast. Tiffany suggests to her manager to host an animal talk show with Maya, and she and her manager see this as a golden opportunity to raise money. The naive Maya thinks this is the ultimate chance to help animals quickly, but during the preparations she realizes that her well-intentioned intentions do not match those of Tiffany and her manager.

‘Dr Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts’ is a film that might provide a fun evening for a young (female) audience, but that’s all. the dr. The Dolittle series has been completely milked out at this point and this copy adds little to nothing to the series. Talking animals often get on the nerves of adults anyway, but the film is not funny either. The film does give a small nod to Hollywood with celebrities like Paris Hilton. The character of Tiffany Monaco is clearly inspired by Paris and the money-hungry managers and producers and the fakeness of Hollywood is clearly visible. The moral of this film is clear: Hollywood and the people are fake and you can trust few people in this business. A message for small children who like talking animals might be one that won’t come across as they are clearly not into it. This does not make the target audience of this film very clear.

On the plus side, Maya Dolittle’s character has been around since the first Dr. Dolittle movie exists. Maya has been played by Kyla Pratt in all films, so as a viewer you still have the impression that you are looking at a sequel and not a film that only lives on the title of the first successful film, but uses completely new actors, such as this unfortunately it was the case with ‘Dumb & Dumber: When Harry met Lloyd’ (2003) or Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr’ (2009). Kyla Pratt also has the right sympathetic appearance for the friendly teenage girl Maya, only in appearance she is already a bit too old to play a 17-year-old girl. All in all, the predictable storyline and the quantity and quality of the jokes ‘Dr. Dolitttle: Million Dollar Mutts’ to a mediocre film.