Zookeeper

What it's about:

The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kind-hearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than with a lady, Griffin decides that 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.

What the critics thought:

"I would rather lie on a bed of nails watching Dr Doolittle for a week than see a single reel of Zookeeper again."
- Philip French, Observer


"It's hard to think of a human finding much to laugh about in this wounded beast."
- Scott Bowles, USA Today


"It's all very ho-hum, though James, who's like Jason Alexander with a touch of Jeremy Piven, is still a schmo you can't help rooting for."
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly