Movie · Musical · Comedy

Based on the Hugh Lofting series of stories, Doctor Dolittle is a magical, musical extravaganza that follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, played by Oscar winner Rex Harrison. Dolittle, a kindly veterinarian living in an animal-filled apartment, learns that his parrot speaks 468 animal languages. Dolittle has the parrot teach him all of them and soon he finds himself making friends with his animals - enjoying their company more than humans.

1967 · 2h 24m

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Doctor Dolittle

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Based on the Hugh Lofting series of stories, Doctor Dolittle is a magical, musical extravaganza that follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, played by Oscar winner Rex Harrison. Dolittle, a kindly veterinarian living in an animal-filled apartment, learns that his parrot speaks 468 animal languages. Dolittle has the parrot teach him all of them and soon he finds himself making friends with his animals - enjoying their company more than humans.

COMMON SENSE

Kid-friendly talking animal musical comedy is fun but dated.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.5
Reviews 21
Fresh 6
Rotten 15

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Studio
20th Century Fox
Released
1967
Run Time
2 hr 24 min
Rated
G
Region of Origin
United States
© 1967 Apjac Productions, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Renewed 1995 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC), French (France) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), Danish , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Korean , Norwegian , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.