The Best And Worst Robert Downey Jr. Movies According To Rotten Tomatoes

Robert Downey Jr. shouldn't talk to animals — he needs to talk to his agent. You do not follow up the highest-grossing movie of all time with Dolittle. Or at least, you shouldn't. 

Well, he did, and his overall Tomatometer score paid the price, big time. Dolittle earned an absolutely disastrous 14% Tomatometer score from critics, however moviegoers seemed to like it for the most part, giving it a 76% audience score, which is actually higher than some of his best movies on this list. To be honest, the idea of Robert Downey Jr. playing a wacky doctor who talks to animals sounds like it should be a blast. Alas, critics panned it for its "jumbled story and stale humor." 

Also, as Box Office Mojo shows, whose idea was it to spend a blockbuster budget of $175 million on a "kids only" family movie, that had almost no chance of ever making that back? Indeed Dolittle didn't come close, as it only earned $246 million worldwide, which honestly isn't too bad, all things considered ... except for, you know, that insane budget. Nobody should be surprised by the movie's failure, as none of the Doctor Dolittle movies have ever earned a "Fresh" rating, especially not the original "classic" version from 1967, which earned a 29% Tomatometer score and nearly put 20th Century Fox out of business, according to the Hollywood Reporter. 

How do you say "Stop making Doctor Dolittle movies," in gorilla?