This is the sappiest, most sickly sweet movie I have ever seen. I think that's right. I need to refresh my memory. I'm pretty sure this is way sappier than The Notebook, for instance. If you have kids, take them to this one. It has animals, it is perfectly innocent and harmless. It has a ridiculously cute little girl in it. It has no real value whatsoever, but Matt Damon is always good, the kid is cute, Elle Fanning is a great and charming actress, and there is a lion and a tiger. What the hey. That's got to be better than Chipmunks, right?
Matt loses his wife, and he is torn up about it, but in this movie he calmly quits his job and buys a zoo. All the while he is wearing nice sweaters and helping his daughter "catch her mommy's spirit" with her hands and hold it to her heart (no shit). His son is acting out, but in a very artistic way. It's ridiculous, but inoffensive. Just sickly sweet.
By the way, Scarlett Johansson is fine in this. I kind of liked her. Cameron Crowe directed, and he should be embarrassed about this one.
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