10 Awful Movies With Incredible Casts
3. Dolittle
Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Emma Thompson, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Rami Malek, John Cena, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez
It was sad for Robert Downey Jr to part with the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Avengers: Endgame, but you could understand why he wanted to move on. For four years, RDJ didn't appear in anything that wasn't Iron Man-related, so Downey Jr was probably dying to sink his teeth into a project that wasn't connected to comics.
So, when it announced he would be playing the title role in Dolittle with a plethora of celebs voicing the animals, it sounded like the perfect film for him. But to everyone's surprise and disappointment, the movie was a blunder.
The talents of Emma Thompson, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland and others were terribly underused, probably to put more focus on Dolittle. Since Downey Jr is the big star, this makes sense in theory, but he hams up his performance to such an extent, it's like he is a body composed of quirks rather than character traits.
If you were waiting for Downey Jr's show-stopping performance post-Marvel, keep waiting because this isn't it.