A widower named Benjamin (Matt Damon) has discipline problems with
his son being kicked out of school. So, in a rather unlikely
scenario, he goes looking for a new place to live and a new school
to send his son to. Why he doesn't just stay put and put his son in
a school in a neighboring district is not explained. In any event,
in his search for a new house, Benjamin stumbles across a run down
estate which just happens to also be a zoo that needs some serious
rehab before it can reopen to the public and try to make up some of
its expenses. His 7 year old daughter falls in love with the place
and so Benjamin is hooked. The movie follows the ups and downs of
this new business venture. Will the zoo open on time or will an act
of God or the actions of an overzealous inspector cause it to shut
its doors forever? Tune in and find out. Five stars.
This movie ranks as "Iffy" because there are a total of 18 mildly
violent scenes in it, including: The movie opens with the short
cartoon feature called "Scrat's Continental Crackup" which has three
short sequences of violence in it; a squirrel is caught on a fishing
line, the squirrel is threatened with spears and the squirrel is
punched and kicked. In the main movie, the violence includes:
a medium sized plane is flying through a hurricane, a child steps on
a dog's tail, there is a portrait of a man's head that was cut off,
there is a story of a tiger attacking a human, there is a story
about killing a man, a man crashes to the ground after jumping over
a fence, there is a story about a boy getting his nose banged up,
there is a story about how a mother suffered a bit before she died,
a kid kicks a snake, a man violently breaks out of a bathroom that
his peers are holding him in, a man kicks over a barrel, a bear
swipes a man's gun, a man makes a motion with his fingers
representing sticking a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger,
there is some yelling between father and son and a tiger dies off
screen.
The previews include: two nonviolent commercials, violent previews
for The Three Stooges and Journey 2 Mysterious Island and somewhat
violent previews for The Borrowers and Dr Sues The Lorax.
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