This film takes every cliché from every Hollywood romantic comedy and animal film of the last 60 years and stitches them into a single vomit-inducing tear-jerker. There is not one second of footage that is unique - every scene, every plot device, every character, every film trick, you will recognize from a hundred other films. It is a Frankenstein monster of a movie, long-dead parts sewn together into a shambling barely-alive whole. It comes across as a poor made-for-TV movie made by people who had been fired by Disney for being too schmaltzy. Based on the book of a true story in England, the film omits or changes all the good parts of the book and replaces them with Hollywood clichés, for what reason is not known. No redeeming qualities whatsoever, it is a feel-good movie for the retarded
Review of We Bought a Zoo
