Although the totality of Doctor Dolittle feels incredibly tired, there is some genuine creativity and brilliance on display by the computer visual effects technicians and Jim Henson's Creature Shop, which designed
the animatronic creature effects, which were used in conjunction with actual animals.
But in today's can - do special -
effects atmosphere, it must have been tempt ing to build a winter - wonderland story around a snowman that comes to life via
animatronic puppetry (Jim Henson's
Creature Shop) and computer graphics (Industrial Light & Magic).