You know, when my movie theatre-working friend suggested this one, I wasn't too enthused but since I wanted something short, I figured I'd give this one a try. And for a while, as the story was being set up, I found myself a little bored what with that beginning scene. But by the time after the first scene of those zoo animals talking and then that party scene involving Kevin James and Rosario Dawson trying to one-up Leslie Bibb and her date on the dance floor, I started laughing loudly and mostly couldn't stop after that. Oh, and I also liked that whole scene with James and that gorilla at TGI Fridays. So on that note, Zookeeper gets a high recommendation. One more thing, it's fun to guess which animals' voices go with whatever celebrities before the credits reveal them and I had no trouble recognizing Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Maya Rudolph, Adam Sandler, and Don Rickles, who the friend I mentioned thought was dead. I asked him how he thought he died when he was in Toy Story 3 last year. "Cause he's old" was the reply which I replied by asking if he still thought Mickey Rooney was dead (this was when we saw that Ben Stiller movie, Night at the Museum). He knew that wasn't true. Oh, and this was the first time I found out about Sandler's wife Jackie making a cameo in one of his movies (Adam is one of the producers if you didn't know). She played the TGI Fridays waitress serving Kevin and the gorilla.
Zookeeper
(2011)
While initially not too enthused, I eventually highly enjoyed Zookeeper
11 July 2011