Director/co-writer Cameron Crowe isn’t content to simply tug at your heartstrings in the cloyingly saccharine family drama
We Bought a Zoo. On the contrary, by laying the ethereal music on so thick it’s suffocating, relying on an abundance of cute cutaways to animals to punctuate every quirky character beat, and summoning the specter of the dearly departed for a dance of joy around a lonely kitchen, Crowe effectively attaches a tangled mess of steel cables to your ventricles, affixes them to a Mack truck, and punches the gas with all the subtlety of an adrenaline-addicted NASCAR driver gunning it for the checkered flag.
Recently widowed travel writer Be...
Released:
2011
Rated:
PG
Length:
n/a