Zookeeper Review

Zookeeper

Release Date: 8th September 2011 - Australia

Production Companies
Columbia Pictures (presents)

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) (presents)

Broken Road Productions

Hey Eddie
Happy Madison Productions

Distribution

Sony Pictures Australia

Genre: Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 102 minutes

Budget: $80,000,000

Box Office Gross: $169,852,759

(Worldwide)

Plot Summary

The animals at the Franklin
Park Zoo love their kind-
hearted caretaker, Griffin
Keyes. Finding himself more

comfortable with a lion than a
lady, Griffin decides the only
way to get a girl in his life is
to leave the zoo and find a
more glamorous job. The
animals, in a panic, decide
to break their time-
honoured code of silence
and reveal their biggest
secret: they can talk! To
keep Griffin from leaving,
they decide to teach him
the rules of courtship -
animal style.

Cast

Humans

Kevin James - Griffin Keyes

Rosario Dawson - Kate

Leslie Bibb - Stephanie

Donnie Wahlberg - Shane

Joe Rogan - Gale

Nat Faxon - Dave

Ken Jeong - Venom

Steffiana De La Cruz - Robin

Thomas Gottschalk - Jurgen Mavroc

Brandon Keener - Nimer

Animal Voices

Nick Nolte - Bernie the Lowland Gorilla 

Sylvester Stallone - Joe the Lion

Adam Sandler - Donald the Capuchin 

Monkey

Judd Apatow - Barry the Asian Elephant

Cher - Janet the Lioness

Jon Favreau & Faizon Love - Jerome &

Bruce the Grizzly Bears

Maya Rudolph - Mollie the Giraffe

Bas Rutten - Sebastian the Wolf

Don Rickles - Jim the Bullfrog

Jim Breuer - Spike the Crow

Crew

Director - Frank Coraci

Story/Screenplay - Jay Scherick & David Ronn

Screenplay/Producer - Kevin James

Screenplay - Nick Bakay & Rick Reuben

Producers - Todd Garner, Jack Giarraputo

& Adam Sandler

Cinematography - Michael Barrett

Visual Effects Supervisor - Peter G. Travers

Film Editor - Scott Hill

Music - Rupert Gregson-Williams


Review
While the opening of the movie was a bit boring, 'ZOOKEEPER' did get better with the humour and the talking animals were quite simply perfect crafted comedy which we haven't seen since hearing these animals talk in the box office smash 'Dr. Dolittle'. The acting of Kevin James was impressive as he brought a physical comedic energy to the screen and to top it of this movie included the voice talents of Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte and Cher.

'ZOOKEEPER' was a positive uplifting comedy which provides fun and entertainment for all the family and all the animal lovers.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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