Colin Ford (who plays tearaway teen, Dylan) enables the audience to empathise with him despite his typical rebellious teenage antics. It is fun to see Matt Damon in a far different role to his usual tough guy/Jason Bourne personas and he does well at playing a family man who often doesn’t know what he’s doing. This isn’t high drama, the conflicts are cliché and the ending is predictable but it is an enjoyable albeit twee family movie. Although she does occasionally challenge Benjamin, she barely does anything more than give him a little nudge in the right direction. Kelly (Scarlett Johansson) is pleasant enough but has little to do other than be supportive. The zoo staff are likeable but mostly rather bland with the exception of the almost permanently drunk Scot, MacCreedy (Angus MacFadyen) who has no personality other than being intoxicated. Benjamin (Matt Damon) lost his wife some months before and decides to pick the family up, take them away from all the memories and problems that have surfaced since and give them an adventure to focus on. Loosely based on the memoirs of Benjamin Mee, ‘We Bought a Zoo’ follows the Mee family as they embark on an adventure to bring a local zoo back to its former glory. Genre: Comedy, Drama REVIEW: WE BOUGHT A ZOO Starring: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Ford
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