Zookeeper | Film review

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Fans of the sight of James falling over (nine times in 100 minutes!) and shockingly brazen product placement (“Is T.G.I. Friday’s as incredible as it looks?”) will get a big kick out of Zookeeper, but this deranged comedy will leave everyone else scratching their heads. So animals can talk, they just choose not to? And they decide to break millions of years of silence to help James get laid? Said animals, including a monkey voiced by Adam Sandler, offer James’s dopey zookeeper advice on how to land his stuck-up ex (Bibb). But their suggestions—mark your territory, growl like a bear—would only work on a woman who was into bestiality. Too bad she isn’t; it might have made for a more interesting film.