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We Bought a Zoo is a transparently cloying effort by director Cameron Crowe, but Matt Damon makes for a sympathetic central character.
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You have to admire the thoroughness with which We Bought a Zoo - which is the film Disney would make if they still knew how - caters to the whole family. Mar 16, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
You have to admire the thoroughness with which We Bought a Zoo - which is the film Disney would make if they still knew how - caters to the whole family.
David Sexton
It's an easy-going, likable film. Mar 15, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's an easy-going, likable film.
Peter Bradshaw
A warm, Sunday-afternoon-in-the-park type of movie, if that's your thing. Mar 15, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A warm, Sunday-afternoon-in-the-park type of movie, if that's your thing.
Dan Stewart
Crowe, to his credit, is more concerned with insights about family than romance - and some of these are heart-on-sleeve touching if you've got a sweet tooth for the stickier stuff. Mar 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Crowe, to his credit, is more concerned with insights about family than romance - and some of these are heart-on-sleeve touching if you've got a sweet tooth for the stickier stuff.
Cath Clarke
Nothing that happens in this movie is in the least surprising, but it's all quite pleasant and even, at times, moving. Jan 9, 2012
Nothing that happens in this movie is in the least surprising, but it's all quite pleasant and even, at times, moving.
David Denby
The movie has animals, kids and fine acting from Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, but it lacks the emotional honesty and unpredictability that made Crowe's early films so irresistible. Jan 5, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The movie has animals, kids and fine acting from Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, but it lacks the emotional honesty and unpredictability that made Crowe's early films so irresistible.
Rafer Guzman
"Zoo" rarely feels authentic -- it's the kind of film that relies on the soundtrack to direct the audience how it is supposed to feel. May 6, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
"Zoo" rarely feels authentic -- it's the kind of film that relies on the soundtrack to direct the audience how it is supposed to feel.
Micheal Compton
The result is something that's hard to buy on almost every level. Feb 7, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The result is something that's hard to buy on almost every level.
Abbie Bernstein
Memo to Cameron Crowe: You can't just put a cute kid in a movie and think that's enough to sell the audience on it. Jan 4, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Memo to Cameron Crowe: You can't just put a cute kid in a movie and think that's enough to sell the audience on it.
Kelly Jane Torrance
As it stands, the animals may be restored to their former glory at Rosemoor, but the humans deserve better. Dec 20, 2018 | Full Review…
As it stands, the animals may be restored to their former glory at Rosemoor, but the humans deserve better.
Stephen Saito
Crowe seems unable to layer up the story's sentimentalism with anything subtler than an industrial dumper truck. Dec 18, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Crowe seems unable to layer up the story's sentimentalism with anything subtler than an industrial dumper truck.
Daniel Green
Everything is, indeed, tied up exactly the way you know it will be tied up, because it is that sort of film, but it still provides a perfectly agreeable way to spend the two hours you weren't going to do anything with anyway. Aug 31, 2018 | Full Review…
Everything is, indeed, tied up exactly the way you know it will be tied up, because it is that sort of film, but it still provides a perfectly agreeable way to spend the two hours you weren't going to do anything with anyway.
Deborah Ross
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