Movie Review: We Bought A Zoo
Director: Matt Damon
Reviewed: 12 November 2012
jamesintexas rating--*
Cameron Crowe has lost his touch. The director of "Almost Famous" and "Say Anything" almost completely delivers a disaster of a film in "We Bought A Zoo." The charming Matt Damon cannot do anything with his role as Benjamin Mee, grieving (horribly misguided) father who purchases a zoo and uses it as way to heal the wounds within his family. There are no stakes in this film; money just appears whenever main characters need it, and a villain is contrived from a regulator who wants to make sure the zoo is up to code and safe.
Heavy-handed, slow, and just awful in its sentiment, "We Bought A Zoo" brings very little to the screen to like beyond some shots of animals being cute. The animals and Matt Damon's earnestness have earned this film one star, but I caution anyone against seeing this film. The first twenty minutes of "Life of Pi" depicts zoo life and a family with far less cloying children, cliche, and Scarlett Johannson.
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