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We Bought a Zoo

2011

Cameron Crowe

Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Ford, Thomas Haden Church ...

5.6

9,552

Drama. Comedy Based on Benjamin Mee biography, who bought a zoo in the English countryside. The film, set in Southern California, is about this father who moved with his young family to the countryside to renovate and re-open a struggling zoo.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Crowe has made wonderful films, but here the pieces go together too easily, the plot is too inevitable, and we feel little real energy between the players. It's pitched at a lower level of ambition (...) Rating★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Povides a welcome seasonal dash of wholesomeness and humor, but it's also a heartening celebration of second acts, even at their most unwelcome (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"'We Bought a Zoo' is as phony as a Kardashian marriage (...) Crowe has gone from 'Almost Famous' to nearly shameless"	NEG
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Crowe deals with difficult emotional issues, but always with a light, sure and honest hand. He makes the two hours of “We Bought a Zoo’’ — normally a bit long for a family movie — positively fly by (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Marco Vito Oddo Collider	"There’s no way to hide the lack of substance in 'We Bought a Zoo'"	NEG
United States	Rob Nelson Variety	"We Bought a Zoo is an odd bird, warm-blooded but largely lifeless"	NEU

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