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Zookeeper

I was itching to leave the theater after 20 minutes and somehow held out till around the 40-minute mark.

Premise

- Kevin James’s job as a zookeeper was not something to make fun of. That’s a responsible, fun and pays-enough career. Compare this to Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer- he was stuck playing weddings in his small town because he didn’t make it as a rocker. Big difference.

- Of course Kevin had the wrong idea about what it would take to get a girl to love him; that was the point of the story. But it made absolutely no sense for the animals to also be misguided. They were smart, liked him and had an objective view of his life so they should have had accurate advice. Instead, the bears taught him how to act like a bear- and it was beyond stupid for Kevin to comply- and then the wolf taught him about peeing. And then I left. It was so obvious that the animals should have prevented him from quitting the zoo, blocked him and the ex from rekindling any feelings, and arranging for him and Rosario Dawson to fall in love. (Some of this may have occured after I left, but my point is that the animals should have known and made these their objectives early on.)

- Each animal’s voice was mismatched to the inherent nature of that animal.

Little things

Why on earth did they not use a combination of real gorilla and CGI for that character? The old-fashioned gorilla suit was no better than what people can rent for Halloween.

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