MIRTH AND JOY

MIRTH AND JOY by Jerry King

ENTERTAINMENT: ROLL ’EM! Friends Come in All Sizes by Hunter Barnard M

This month, I watched “Dolittle.” It was a really good movie. I would give it 1,000 percent!

Dolittle is a very smart guy who helps animals. He helps them take their medicine, and he does a better job than other people because he can talk to them.

He can help people, but he does not like people very much.

There is a boy who gets caught in a trap at Dolittle’s house at the beginning of the movie, and I thought that was the funniest part. Even though Dolittle does not like people, he lets the boy, Stubbins, stay because he can help him. Stubbins wants to learn about animals.

Dolittle and Stubbins have to go on an adventure to help the queen. They need to get to an island that has a special fruit that can help the queen get better. But first, they have to find a special journal. The trip there is really dangerous. There is a bad guy who really wants the journal for himself so he tries to beat Dolittle there, and he is not very nice.

But Dolittle brings some of his animals with him so they are able to keep each other safe. There is a polar bear, a parrot, a duck, and a gorilla. The polar bear was my favorite animal, he was really funny and seemed very nice.

Dolittle was really scared to make new friends, but at the end, we found out new friends can be a good thing. The end of their adventure was really cool, they met a really big animal and learned a lot. They are all able to help each other, and Dolittle does not seem so sad anymore.

One really cool part was when they got the big animal at the end to feel better, they were really nice to her. There were a lot of cool animals in the movie, like a tiger. He seems really mean, but I think he was just hungry. Eventually, everyone is friends.

“Dolittle” was a very good movie and I think lots of other people should watch it, too.

Hunter Barnard is an energetic 7-year-old who attends Berea City Schools and likes to share his opinion. He is assisted in writing his column by his mother, Jessica Rapenchuk.