The classic IP restart failed - "Dolittle's Fantasy Adventure"
Today, let's talk about the movie "Dolittle's Fantastic Adventure".
The title of the film is Dolittle / The Vogage of Dr. Dolittle (2020), alias Doctor Dolittle / Dolittle (Taiwan) / Doctor D Laodu (Hong Kong) / The Adventures of Doctor Dolittle / The Travels of Doctor Dolittle.
The film is adapted from the British author Hugh Lofting's children's literature work "The Doctor Dolittle". The protagonist of the story, Dolittle, can communicate with animals without barriers, which leads to a series of absurd and interesting stories.
From 1998 to 2009, "Strange Doctor Dolittle" was put on the big screen five times, taking the light-hearted comedy route, and the ratings of the five works steadily declined near the pass line.
"Dolittle's Fantastic Adventure" also adopts the settings in "Strange Doctor Dolittle", and invites Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. to play the protagonist Dolittle. Dolittle has superb medical skills, can easily communicate with animals, and save people and animals.
In addition to the big-name protagonists, the film is also equipped with a super-high-level dubbing lineup. There are many animal characters in the film, and the voices of these animals are all celebrities familiar to the audience. Oscar winner Marion Cotillard voices Tutu the fox, "Voldemort" Ralph Fiennes voices Barry the tiger, child star Selena Gomez voices Betsy the giraffe, the third Spider-Man" "Bohemian Rhapsody" Oscar winner Rami Malek as gorilla Chee-Chee, and Emma Thompson as parrot Polynesia.
This is also after the "Avengers" came to an end, and the reunion of Iron Man and Little Spider on the big screen is also a highlight.
In addition to the famous actors, the special effects production team of the film is also very powerful.
Just like "The Lion King 2019" is the top dazzling skill of CG technology, it perfectly reproduces the grand occasion of the animated version of that year. This "Fantastic Adventure of Dolittle" is an animal world-like dazzling skill, showing all kinds of common animals in CG way.
Universal Pictures spared no expense to restart the old classic IP "Doctor Dolittle" with "The Fantastic Adventures of Dolittle", creating many lifelike CG animal images.
Simply comparing "Dolittle's Fantasy Adventure" and "The Lion King 2019", the CG level is almost the same.
However, the essence of a movie is to tell a story. No matter how big the celebrity you invite, or how realistic the CG you make, it all has to serve the story itself. The story itself cannot be ignored in order to showcase the stars and technology, which is a typical putting the cart before the horse.
That's where Dolittle's Fantastic Adventures went wrong. The original IP of "Strange Doctor Dolittle" was very classic, but the five film versions were mediocre, and the IMDB score was between 6 and 3, which can be said to be appalling.
When Universal Pictures restarted this old IP, it still did not learn a lesson, and still adopted the method of making CG with heart and writing stories with feet. Children's literature is a fairy tale for children that adults will not find interesting at all.
"Dolittle's Fantasy Adventure" is also positioned as a children's film. Children are naturally curious and fond of all kinds of animals. Seeing so many furry cute things on the big screen, they may like it very much.
Telling stories to children is naturally not too complicated and dark, and Dolittle's adventure can be said to be as boring as plain water. Shooting such a story for adults will naturally not have good results. If it wasn't to accompany children, adults should not choose this film.
Don't look at the story of "The Fantastic Adventures of Dolittle" is very simple, even mentally retarded, and the production cost of the film is as high as 175 million US dollars. Of course most of the money was spent on actors and CG.
The audience is well-informed, and naturally they will not choose to spend money to watch CG. After all, why not go to the zoo if you have the time and money.
Moreover, coupled with the impact of the biggest black swan event this year, the new crown epidemic, the film's reputation at the box office was dismal, and Iron Man encountered Waterloo directly after the transformation.
The "Avengers" series has greatly limited the development of actors. It seems that it is difficult for people who come out of the alliance to succeed in transformation, except for Black Widow's "Marriage Story", Captain America's "Defending Jacob" and "Knives Out" And Thor's "Shocking Rescue", the rest of the actors suffered the same as Iron Man. We can only see if Robert Downey Jr. can make a comeback in "Sherlock Holmes 3" (2021).
Classic IP restart failed,
Iron Man is down again.
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