Being an animal lover, I thought this was going to be a fun movie. I figured it had a lot going for it: based on a true story, Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, along with animals. Really, what could be so bad?  Unfortunately, the movie was not very fun. Besides being predictable, I found it was trying to hard to get every movie cliche into the story. Matt Damon as the single Dad who has to raise his 2 children by himself; Thomas Haden Church as the brother to Matt’s character, who can only speak in sarcastic tones; and then there is Scarlett, who I felt was miscast as the head of the zoo’s staff. If you are looking for a movie that you can take the whole family to, I guess you could say, this would be one you could all go and see. For me, it was just a light fluffy movie to pass the time.

2 1/4 stars

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