The zoo keeper

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Movie
German title The zoo keeper
Original title Zookeeper
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Frank Coraci
script Nick Bakay
Rock Reuben
Kevin James
Jay Scherick
David Ronn
production Todd Garner
Jack Giarraputo
Kevin James
Adam Sandler
Walt Becker
music Rupert Gregson-Williams
camera Michael Barrett
cut Scott Hill
occupation
synchronization

The zookeeper (original title: Zookeeper ) is an American comedy film from 2011 by director Frank Coraci with Kevin James in the lead role.

action

Griffin Kayes leads a content life as a zookeeper. When he makes a romantic marriage proposal to his girlfriend Stephanie, she rejects him, citing Griffin's unattractive job and suddenly ends the relationship. He meets her again five years later at his brother Dave's wedding. Hoping to be able to renew the relationship, he is thinking about "improving" professionally and accepting his brother's offer to work in his business as a luxury car seller.

The animals, who notice this and want to keep Griffin at the zoo, decide to help him so that Stephanie falls in love with him again. However, to do this they have to reveal their secret, namely their ability to speak. In this way, Griffin is equipped with all kinds of animal strategies to impress Stephanie. With the support of his colleague from the zoo, the veterinarian Kate, he actually succeeds in making himself interesting again for Stephanie. Because of her urging, he finally gives up his work at the zoo and tries his hand at selling cars in his brother's shop.

Griffin is successful in his new job, but eventually realizes that he will never be happy with it and that Stephanie does not suit him at all. He returns to "his" animals in the zoo and is clear about it: he actually loves his colleague Kate. When he tries to reveal this to her, he has to find out from the animals that she has also left the zoo and wants to take a job in Nairobi. Griffin wants to get them back at all costs and so he sets off with the animals to catch them in time for their departure. Ultimately, with the help of his animal friends, he manages to catch up with Kate and confess his love to her. Six months later the two are married and both work at the zoo again.

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roll Actor / OV voice actor German speakers
Griffin Kayes Kevin James Thomas Karallus
Kate Rosario Dawson Tanja Geke
Stephanie Leslie Bibb Cathlen Gawlich
viper Ken Jeong Axel Malzacher
Shane Donnie Wahlberg Marco Kroeger
Stanley "Stan" Evens Jim Breuer
Nimer Brandon Keener
Dave Nat Faxon
Robin Steffiana De La Cruz Sanam Afrashteh
Gael Joe Rogan Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Jürgen Mavroc Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Gottschalk
Donald the monkey Adam Sandler (voice) Mario Barth
Joe the lion Sylvester Stallone (voice) Jan Josef Liefers
Janet the lioness Cher (voice) Anna Loos
Barry the elephant Judd Apatow (voice) Christian Gaul
Jerome the bear Jon Favreau (voice) Gerald Schaale
penguin Mark Linn-Baker (voice)
crow Jim Breuer (voice) Stefan Krause
Bruce the bear Faizon Love (voice) Tom Vogt
tiger Bas Rutten (voice)
Sebastian the wolf Bas Rutten (voice) Erich Rauker
lama Billy Crystal (voice)
frog Don Rickles (voice)
Bernie the gorilla Nick Nolte (voice) Thomas Fritsch
flamingo David Spade (voice)
Mollie the giraffe Maya Rudolph (voice) Nadine Warmuth

background

production

Shooting began on August 17, 2009 and ended on October 30, 2009. The shooting took place in Boston , including in the local Franklin Park Zoo . The cost of producing the film was estimated at $ 80 million. As Kevin James on March 21, 2009 at Wetten, dass ..? appeared, he offered Thomas Gottschalk a guest role as a gay German fashion designer for the film after the show. Even before the shooting, the animal rights organization PETA addressed the producers and demanded that real animals be avoided during the shoot and that computer-animated animals be used. When the 18-year-old Giraffe Tweet , animal actor and known from Toys'R'Us commercials and the film Ace Ventura , died while filming without a known medical history, PETA made serious allegations of animal cruelty against the producers and demanded the USDA for further investigation.

publication

After Sony had now marketed the film worldwide because of MGM 's bankruptcy , it was announced that it had been postponed from the autumn program to the high-turnover summer program due to excellent test screenings. It was released in theaters on July 7, 2011 in Germany and on July 8, 2011 in the USA.

Others

Reviews

“It's a simple story, and yet the Legion that wrote the script seems to have had big problems. There is hardly any other way to explain the dramaturgical bumps with which the film struggles. Though it's supposed to be a comedy, it seldom proves laughable because the animals and their tips are as simple-minded as predictable. [..] However, the film does not want to rely entirely on James' comedic talent, but rather gathers the animals of the zoo at night for a group of nonsense chattering groups who are concerned about the love of their guardian. [...] James' 'change of roles' depending on the animal adviser does not seem like a sovereign game with different personality facets, but like a loose collection of small, self-sufficient sketches, which in sum do not elicit a grin even from the most undemanding schoolboy. Even if earlier productions with Kevin James such as "The Department Store Cop" weren't the star moments of the comedies, they were at least characterized by a homogeneity of characters that is completely missing in "The Zoo Keeper". "

“Coraci is a director of the classic Hollywood educational comedy: How do I transform from underdog to winner? How do I use my second chance in life? He likes to preach to people, but he presents his animals comparatively sober. Although they live in the zoo, they are still caught up in the wilderness, which in this case means that they behave rather unsentimentally. [...] In fact, it sometimes leads to unexpected comedy. However, the fun is over as soon as the zookeeper begins to imitate the behavior of the animals for his own purposes. […] (Kevin James) comedic talent disappears here under the relationship clichés that are piled up around him - the only moments in which he finds his greatness he has with a sad gorilla. "

“In contrast to the zoological whisperers, for whom the film also finds enough material, it torments itself with its human accessories: people like Donnie Wahlberg row around in their rolls listlessly, the joke is turned that suddenly Thomas Gottschalk as a Lagerfeld blend shows up in horror as soon as he gets the first insult pounded on the head. The goal of shaking tried-and-true comedy into a new form is a joke. The irony that she talks a lot about untapped potential, but certainly not even trying, is lost in her. "

- allesfilm.com

“Kevin James fools himself in Frank Coraci's“ The Zoo Keeper ”through the stringed, not very original punch lines. Even great comedians like Ken Joang [..] are lost in the film, because a few talking, funny animals and a never-ending firework of jokes by the main actor are not enough to make a good comedy. The romantic story is also bursting with bad clichés [..] “The zoo keeper” should have been a film for the whole family - including talking animals for the little ones and a romantic comedy for the grown-ups, but unfortunately the concept doesn't work in the slightest perhaps it would have been better to concentrate more thoroughly on one thing than to want too much. "

- fluter.de

"Stupid comedy with silly to crude gags and poorly contoured characters."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Der Zoowärter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 067 K).
  2. Age rating for Der Zoowärter . Youth Media Commission .
  3. The zookeeper. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  4. Locations for the film
  5. Thomas Gottschalk is supposed to play gay designer Spiegel Online from March 31, 2009
  6. Dear 'Zookeeper' Stars: Keep Cruelty Off the Set on peta.org August 13, 2009, accessed February 27, 2011
  7. Milton J. Valencia: Tweet the giraffe, star of ads and movies, dies at Franklin Park Zoo ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on boston.com from September 14, 2009 (English), accessed on 24 February 2011
  8. Giraffe on 'The Zookeeper' Set Dies on peta.org (September 15, 2009) , accessed February 27, 2011
  9. Nicole Sperling: Sony moves upcoming Kevin James comedy 'Zookeeper' into summer 2011 on ew.com from April 27, 2010, accessed on June 21, 2011
  10. Release dates
  11. Film review by Sascha Koebner ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film-dienst.kim-info.de
  12. ^ Film review by Doris Kuhn
  13. Film review by Thomas Taborsky ( memento of the original from April 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allesfilm.com
  14. Film review by Nina Scholz ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.fluter.de
  15. The zookeeper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used