"My Family Buys the Zoo": Love Stories in the Zoo

Astrid 2022-04-23 07:01:54

A natural adventurer father who lost his beloved wife and raised a pair of children by himself, when looking for a new home, he made a bold choice to buy a zoo that was on the verge of bankruptcy in the outer suburbs and live in it. Due to insufficient capital preparation and inter-bank management, he soon found himself trapped. Just as he was about to make the final decision to leave or stay, he stumbled across a huge sum of money left by his deceased wife for him. Despite the persuasion and persuasion of his older brother, who is engaged in the financial management business, the adventurer father resolutely chose to stay, continue to invest the funds in the zoo, and go through the difficult times with all the staff to revive the former glory of the zoo.

The film is based on true stories and evolved from the memoirs of the protagonist of the same name. In addition to being dubbed the attractive "zoo" name, the content of the film and the concept of the zoo are really different. As mentioned at the beginning of the film, there are at least hundreds of novel animals in it, and no more than 20 animals can be exposed in the film. More bridges deduce the way of father and son getting along and ambiguous love stories, mixed with all kinds of irrelevant giggles. Watching a warm drama in the zoo, maybe we are not ready to be in the right mood, but the reality is so abrupt. If watching "Zoo Keeper" at the time seemed so low-level and naive, then this film is completely a situation that gives people a feeling of not being able to find it.

If the director is not from the hometown of the zoo and brings together many bright stars to join, if there is no sincere interpretation of Matt Damon and pure love of Scarlett Johansson, it is hard to imagine how much value the film can attract people. It is a great luxury to want to see a few animals playing tricks, even though this is a movie with a zoo as a gimmick. From this, it can be seen that the director is not really interested in animals, but just wants to boost the reputation of his hometown.

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We Bought a Zoo quotes

  • [first lines]

    Dylan Mee: My dad is a writer who specialized in adventure.

    Benjamin Mee: This is Benjamin Mee. I am surrounded by hundreds, probably thousands of killer bees. If I wasn't wearing this suit, I would be dead in an instant.

    Dylan Mee: He interviewed dangerous dictators.

    Hugo Chavez: Take this message to that American cowboy. We already gave a 10 billion dollar oil credit to China. Swallow that, Mr. Danger!

    Benjamin Mee: What's your favorite movie?

    Hugo Chavez: Toy Story.

    [to his staff]

    Hugo Chavez: The first one or the second one?

    Segundo: The second.

    Dylan Mee: He even flew into the center of Hurricane Charley.

    Benjamin Mee: [shouting over air noise] How far are we from the eye?

    Pilot: About two minutes. This hurricane, sir, Charley is really kneading us well, sir.

    Benjamin Mee: Tell me when it gets severe!

    Dylan Mee: He knew the ins and outs of strange and exotic adventure, backwards and forwards. But nothing prepared him for this one.

  • Benjamin Mee: [loosing track of Rosie at the zoo] Oh God, I keep her home one day from school and she gets eaten!