Review of Zookeeper

Ah, yes, the joys of watching a terrible film. Oh wait, there are no joys in watching a terrible film except for one thing; you'll never have to watch it ever again. That is the one positive thing I can about this film.

Zookeeper is a reprensible comedy, and I'm using the word comedy extremely loosely here, in which it tries to exercise mean-spiritedness, disgusting humor, cheap gags and a lame plot all in the name of family friendly entertainment.

Let's look at the film's main problem; the animals. They're not charming, not funny, and certainly not entertaining to watch. At the end of the movie, I not only wanted the animals to shut up, I wanted them to have their tongues ripped out so they wouldn't be able to speak again. The voices do not match with the species of animal that is speaking.

That's another things, even for a film that was marketed as a family film with the talking animals taking up a majority of the screentime, it's not really focused on them, it's focused more on a forced and predictable romance. And to be honest, it's hard deciding which I would rather watch. There really isn't any reason for the animals to talk at all. The scenes could've been taken out of the movie and it wouldn't have made much of a difference.

For a supposed comedy, I laughed all of twice in this entire almost 2 hour long torture. And just because I need something else to punch this film while it's down, I thought the editing and visual effects in this film were terrible. The film was filled with lots of odd and strange edits, zooms, and the animals lips moving doesn't look realistic at all, and the gorilla looks like a man in a gorilla suit. Now you could argue that this was made as a kid's film and kids will like it anyway, but in my honest opinion, kids are smarter than this film. They deserve much better than the likes of this film. With Pixar films readily availible, I find it hard to believe that any parent would put their kid through this film. Simply put, this film is a piece of monkey defecation. Stay away at all costs.

1/10