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to Wikipedia entry for the film We Bought
A Zoo.
DVD Review
We Bought A Zoo, starring
Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, 20th Century-Fox, 2011
So what is not to like about
a family-oriented story of a guy, an ex-wild and wooly reporter guy ready,
willing, and able to tackle any assignment the tougher the better, who having
grievously lost his young wife to some unfathomable illness and left with two
children, one an endearing pre-teen girl and the other an alienated,
angst-ridden teen age boy (reminding me of another very alienated young man
without the dead mother angle) decides (or has karmic forces decide) to do
right by the kids and get them the hell out of the maw of civilization. Oh, and
buy a zoo.
Nothing, nothing at all. No
my plan A (or Plan B, C, or D) but a plan that father Matt Damon spends the
film trying to work through against might and main odds, and the
occasional ten thousand obstacles thrown
in the way of success before good-heartedness, perseverance, and a little
magical realism save the day for him and
his. The only thing I don’t get, get at all, is why a thinking guy, a serious
family man thinking guy, took so long to go after the head zookeeper, Scarlett
Johansson, a thinking man’s thinking woman if there ever was one. Matt, Lou says more than a zoo will do, okay.
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