"Zookeeper" is the kind of movie that the general public eats up and, I daresay, the sort of movie over which critics absorb the most beatings. "How can you dislike such a harmless movie?" people ask. "It's so...so...CUTE." Let me mention, in case I haven't before, one of my pet peeves in analyzing a movie: terming it "cute." It's typically reserved for kids' movies or animated films and is the stock answer when someone feels guilty slamming such oft-horrible movies. So they dismiss both it and truly high-quality films by lumping them all together with this single, all-encompassing adjective that means virtually nothing.
Zookeeper
Zookeeper
Zookeeper
"Zookeeper" is the kind of movie that the general public eats up and, I daresay, the sort of movie over which critics absorb the most beatings. "How can you dislike such a harmless movie?" people ask. "It's so...so...CUTE." Let me mention, in case I haven't before, one of my pet peeves in analyzing a movie: terming it "cute." It's typically reserved for kids' movies or animated films and is the stock answer when someone feels guilty slamming such oft-horrible movies. So they dismiss both it and truly high-quality films by lumping them all together with this single, all-encompassing adjective that means virtually nothing.