There is the language to consider, but despite the film's slow start, small children should take to the idea of communicating with animals.
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L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
To his credit, Eddie Murphy knows it well enough to deliver a team-playing performance as the critter-phobic physician who reluctantly becomes the Albert Schweitzer of the animal kingdom.
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TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Small children should be delighted by the menagerie of chatty critters, but their parents may be less than thrilled by what the animals have to say.
Slim on story and rife with scatological jokes, the film may strike a chord with pre-teens but misses for an older crowd despite some nifty effects and broad humor.
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Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
Nat Mauldin and Larry Levin's screenplay, indifferently directed by Betty Thomas, is simply an excuse for tired scatological jokes involving animal characters with the voices of well-known actors.