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We Bought a Zoo


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Total Film
It's slight, sure, and there's a better, less-glossy film buried in the material, but warm performances redeem Crowe's agree...
E! Online
Writer-director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) buys a zoo and let's Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson run it! Very much the k...
Richard Roeper
This is a sweet, funny, unapologetically sentimental film.
Rolling Stone
There's a lot of fun waiting at We Bought a Zoo, but it's the feelings that run through every scene that'll make you glad yo...
New York Daily News
The moment in any family film when dignity goes out the window is an animal reaction shot.
The Boston Globe
We Bought a Zoo is a sweet-natured, terribly unthreatening drama about redemption and renewal, and it may matter more to the...
Los Angeles Times
While not quite Crowe at his absolute best, it carries his humanistic imprint and benefits from a strong acting ensemble tha...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The filmmakers insufficiently stir the lumpy metaphors, chief among them that for animals, as for humans, there is a differe...
Wall Street Journal
We Bought a Zoo is a movie you want to like, and a movie you can enjoy if you cut its slackness some slack.
The New York Times
The creaks, groans and clichés of the screenplay ... are ... finally outstripped by the attractiveness of the performers, th...
USA Today
Not surprisingly, this menagerie of genres doesn't mesh.
San Francisco Chronicle
The film is sweet. Its observations of life in the aftermath of death ring true, especially for anyone who's traveled the co...
New York Post
Heartwarming holiday fare that even jaded adults can share with the kids.
Washington Post
We Bought a Zoo provides a welcome seasonal dash of wholesomeness and humor, but it's also a heartening celebration of secon...
New York Magazine
Damon and Colin Ford as his teen son have an affecting hesitancy, their hearts hovering between the living and the dead.
The New Yorker
Nothing that happens in this movie is in the least surprising, but it's all quite pleasant and even, at times, moving.
E! Online
Writer-director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) buys a zoo and let's Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson run it! Very much the k...
ReelViews
After the twin disappointments of Vanilla Sky (which critics generally liked but the public did not) and Elizabethtown (whic...
Metromix
Matt Damon buys a zoo, but the movie isn't worth his time
Chicago Sun-Times
There really is a Benjamin Mee, and he and his family really did buy a zoo. The Dartmoor Zoological Park in Devon, England, ...
Entertainment Weekly
When Cameron Crowe directs a movie, it may be inspired (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) or it may be lousy (Elizabethtown, Van...
Chicago Tribune
Matt Damon redeems corny 'We Bought A Zoo'
Black Sheep Reviews
Buying a ticket to "We Bought a Zoo" is less about buying into what actually happened and more about buying into the Hollywo...
/Film
In the end, We Bought a Zoo makes a very likable piece of wholesome holiday entertainment, but feels too lightweight to amou...
Joblo
I struggled over my rating for WE BOUGHT A ZOO for hours after seeing the film, and part of me wants to give it a 6 for the ...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Elle Fanning

Release: December 23, 2011
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