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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981127
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These movies arrive on video store shelves this week. DR. DOLITTLE (PG-13, 1998, 85 minutes, Fox)

It's a bad sign any time that Eddie Murphy allows himself to be upstaged by an animatronic guinea pig. Based on the series of children's stories by Hugh Lofting about a physician who can talk to animals, the disappointing "Dr. Dolittle" relegates the gifted comic to the role of straight man to a nattering Noah's ark of furred and feathered smart alecks, including a white and brown rodent named Rodney (manically voiced by Chris Rock). Not only is Murphy given nothing funny to do or say, ...

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