Zookeeper

2 hot women falling for a fat guy just because he is nice. That more unbelievable then animals talking.

Asinine garbage, with Kevin James at his most generic and Adam Sandler (voicing a monkey) at his most unbearable. The plot involves an absurd love triangle (James continues to pine for his shallow ex FIVE YEARS after they split) which culminates in James marrying Rosario Dawson, who deserves far better. Dawson is good, and Nick Nolte as a sullen gorilla has some solid byplay with James; otherwise annoying, predictable, and grimly unfunny.

On the one hand, this is a truly bad movie you could do without ever seeing. But on the other hand, you will find yourself absolutely baffled that virtually every scene is embarrassingly bad in completely new and unexpected ways.

A movie with very few redeeming qualities. Not exaggerating when I say 97%-98% of the jokes fall flat. Some parts were so unBEARable that I looked away for 30 seconds at a time. No effort made in making a decent movie. Just effort in getting famous people to voice each stupid animal.

This was almost tolerable. Then the animals started talking. Then the Adam Sandler monkey started talking.

In a better world, I could've dismissed this as the zillionth juvenile attempted comedy shat out by the Adam Sandler set and gone about my business. But the approbative depiction of pick-up artistry and the depiction of women as little more than currency stopped me from happily forgetting about this crappy little film. The protagonist's "greatest" triumphs consist of James humiliating a woman out of revenge and persuading another to abandon career advancement, and the film expects us to love it!

I only watched this on late night TV as a basis for how excellent films can be by comparison. As advertised, it proved to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Perhaps something could be said for the minor commentary on animal abuse at the Zoo or the danger of materialism, but (just like any other message in the story) depth is lost in a wash of unfunny jokes and poor voice acting. This should appeal to no audience as even impressionable children may suffer developmentally if exposed to it.

This film has the most ridiculous character ever, played by Leslie Bibb. Her actions and choices make no sense at all. She makes the talking animals seem trivial. The film is not awful, it is just weak. And I hate slap stick, so it wasn't for me. Dawson is still incredibly cute.

Passable Dolittle riff can’t conquer a lack of compelling story (the animals pretend to be HITCH?), which leaves the bulk of interest to be engendered by the admittedly starry voice cast, but too few of them are given any time to shine; I’ll take the unenviable position of going in to bat for the amusing “Sandler Monkey”, though Nolte’s gorilla gets the lion’s share of the good material. Stallone seems to be here only to provide support to an incongruous cover of “More Than A Feeling”!

Apparently it does not take much to entertain me, I just need Adam Sandler doing a funny voice for a tufted capuchin, Joe Rogan portraying a deranged ex-boyfriend, and Kevin James jamming to Flo Rida's 'Low' with Nick Nolte the gorilla.

Zookeeper est probablement l'un des plus mauvais films que j'ai vu au cinéma.

Good humor

I watched The Great Wazookeeper. Similar to how Paul Blart 2 synchs up to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Zookeeper supposedly synchs up to Frank Zappa's The Great Wazoo. Both films are Happy Gilmore productions with Kevin James. But does this one work as well? Ehhhhh.. it feels like it was all an excuse to get me to watch a vacuous and cliché rom-com with animals, made only slightly more tolerable by the great music, augmented by my state of mind.

Yet another reminder that absolutely anything will entertain a room full of 4th graders.

Ent 3.5/4. Spirit 0.5. Sus 2. Fam 1.5.

I fastforwarded to the gorilla parts and closed my eyes and pretended it was about Nick Nolte waking up in a zoo. Still not great.

I was 8 when this came out and I watched it 20+ times.

It's like a shittier version of Dr. Doolittle, which wasn't a good movie itself. Kevin James is this decade's Paulie Shore. Or maybe Rob Schneider, but at least Schneider is likable and talented when he's not making shit movies.

Even with low expectations and Kevin James/Adam Sandler tinted glasses this movie is so derivative and lazy it seems like a fake movie. The film crosses the line away from the familiar territory of just bad SNL skit turned movie into a SNL parody movie skit thinking it's a real movie.

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Another year, another poor comedy from the Sandler gang. The story isn't horrible for younger audiences, but the jokes are. They verge on inappropriate for the younger viewer and just bring disgust to parents who might be watching it. There's very little even in the way of decent voice acting to redeem Zookeeper: it's just plain bad.

Griffin (Kevin James) is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but since he is more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species, his love life is lacking. When Griffin decides that the only way to get a girlfriend is to find a more-glamorous career, the animals panic. To keep him from leaving, they reveal their secret ability to talk and offer to teach him the rules of courtship, animal style.

Yeeaaah... Not Kevin James' worst outing IMO, but seeing Adam Sandler was also involved should tell you everything you need to know. Avoid.

Sometimes it's remotely funny. The rest of the I was just telling myself "Please turn it off"...

I walked out of Zookeeper wishing that Griffin's zoo was open to hunters. Or, at the very least, that someone would come in and make all those animals shut their yaps. (pluggedin.com)

A not ingenious variation on dolittle.

NO. just NO. this is an abomination to film. GOD! it makes me so angry just thinking about how absolutely ridiculous, derivative and insanely stupid this film was. this doesn't just gradually make you dumber, it beats your brain with a sledgehammer. i will never be able to look at kevin james again without a strong urge to projectile vomit.

The budget was $80,000,000.

kevin james you suck you suck yousuk you suck

http://gorgview.com/the-zookeeper

probably the worst Stalone movie I've ever seen

Slightly disappointing. I love Kevin James. Fine for families though.

I dont remember the commercials for this thing, I guess I was in a better place. My brain imploded when the animals started talking and it was Sylvester Stallone and fucking Adam Sandler . I watched this behind a locked door. Uggh, film 2800.

Seemingly made for Kevin James. Maybe some day he'll get a part other than assorted Paul Blart parts.

Will Smith must've been too expensive for a proper Hitch sequel. Uninspired waste of CGI talent :/

I almost stopped watching when the animals started to talk. The parts with the animals are truly awful. Most of the other characters are disappointingly under-developed. There are also problems with the writing (zookeeper leaves one woman who wishes he was a car dealer, only to link up with another who wishes he was a doctor). But buried within the absurdity of this rather predictable film are some genuinely hilarious scenes made possible entirely by Kevin James's excellent acting.

Somewhat stupid.

very funny 10 out of 10 i love all animals in the movie. great cast of movie stars. kevin james is so funny

Stupid story, very predictable but the animals made this worth watching. Adam sandler as a hyperactive little monkey got me laugh!

"Zookeeper is essentially a surreally awful Happy Madison Productions version of Mad Libs." - Simon Abrams

Boring.

Nicht so schlimm wie der Kaufhaus-Cop aber als nach 15 Minuten die Tiere zu sprechen anfingen wurd es schon ein bisschen albern. Trotzdem wenigstens halbwegs lustig.

eng; [zookeeper]; ein tierpfleger hat probleme mit frauen, doch die tiere des zoos brechen ihr schweigegelübde und coachen ihn.;

you should have an excuse for watching this movie, mine is I watched it because my friend had already bought the tickests...

I dont expect much, so I did not disappoint. It's really weak, stupid. A sort of A Night at the Museum, with animals.

Made it halfway thru.

If you don't go into this lowering your expectations, you're a fool. It's Kevin James falling down a lot, animals saying ridiculous things, and, most of all, pretty stupid. Nevertheless, it works 4 times out of 10.