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As Good As It Gets

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It's a decent family movie unless you expect something out of ordinary in a family movie. I loved its kind-of unusual theme, with beautiful views and animals. Matt Damon is great, the kids are cute and Scarlett is gorgeous.For me it was a great way to lose myself into a fantasy tale, forgetting everything around me for 2 hours and enjoy the kind of life I always dream for myself, but can never get my hands on. The complications and the solutions might not seem real, but then again it's a family comedy with a touch of fantasy, not a drama or a documentary. So don't have your hopes high, that you will watch an incredibly accurate movie which will inspire you through every step of your life; and you will be fine.

That is both a complement and an insult at the same time. So "wholesome" and yet so unrealistic. Almost based on a true story. The real zoo was in England and the real-life counterpart really did buy an old, broken-down, condemned zoo. Populated by beautiful people like Elle Fanning and Scarlet Johansson. Reminds me a lot of the MGM Movie & Series "Clarence-the-Cross-Eyed-Lion". The house is purchased and the zoo kind of comes with it. A young widower moves here from the city in a desperate effort to keep his family together after mom dies. Many different characters and situations from puppy-love to bankruptcy occur. Actually much better than it sounds! A nice, clean, but almost unbelievable series of events pulls it all together, including the special "death with dignity" of a very-old (but not cross-eyed) lion. Most entertaining and it is truly family entertainment. Probably found in the children's section or at the library. It will appeal to younger children. "G". Nothing really objectionable.

Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo" stars Matt Damon as a Benjamin Mee, a single father who purchases a dilapidated zoo. With the help of his son, daughter and a gang of likable eccentrics, Benjamin attempts to reopen the zoo ahead of a crushing deadline.Like most of Crowe's work, "Zoo" strains desperately to be cute, magical and cosy. The film bludgeons you with cutesiness, every inch sentimental to a fault. Crowe would cite Bill Forsyth's "Local Hero" as an influence on his picture, a superior film about a man on a similar mission. Scarlett Johansson co-stars as "Zoo's" obligatory love interest.6/10 – Worth one viewing.

This was a pleasant movie based on a true story about a writer and his children who move to a country house and buy a house-along with a zoo that comes along with it! Matt Damon plays a writer who loves an adventure whose wife has just died and whose son has just been expelled from school. The new house they buy comes along with a zoo, and they get a tour of it from the "owners." I loved the animals in it, and my favorite scenes in it include the inspection and when the bear escapes. I loved the bear, the tiger, and all the other animals in it as well as the trivia shared in it about the animals.This is a pleasant enough family movie, and you will really enjoy this.*** out of ****