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Doctor Dolittle 4 Wild World Rescue 2026
Starring Eddie Murphy, Raven-Symoné, Awkwafina (voice), Keegan-Michael Key (voice), and Benedict Wong (voice)
Dr. John Dolittle returns to the global stage—older, marginally wiser, and still absolutely hilariously overwhelmed by every furry, feathered, or scaled creature within a ten-mile radius. In Doctor Dolittle 4: Wild World Rescue, the world’s most unconventional physician faces his greatest and most baffling medical mystery to date. A strange and highly contagious illness, quickly dubbed the “Zoological Babel,” begins spreading across global wildlife populations, causing widespread chaos.
The symptoms are both alarming and absurd: animals are losing their natural instincts, mixing up languages in disastrous ways, and behaving in totally unpredictable fashion. For instance, a penguin insists on leading a flock of pigeons to the Sahara, a usually ferocious Bengal tiger can only speak in soothing nursery rhymes, and Dolittle’s own dog, Lucky, starts using a complicated philosophical vocabulary to demand gourmet kibble. The fate of the natural world hangs in the balance as this confusion spirals out of control.
Realizing he cannot possibly handle a crisis of this global magnitude alone—especially with a new set of highly demanding patients—Dolittle turns to his daughter Maya. Now a successful young veterinarian and conservationist, Maya is finally embracing the family’s peculiar but powerful gift of understanding animal speech. Reluctantly, she teams up with her eccentric father, leveraging her modern scientific knowledge against his old-school, chaotic charisma.
Together, they follow a trail of increasingly bizarre clues that lead them to the pristine, but highly controlled, Golden Grove Wildlife Sanctuary. A sprawling facility run by a deceptively charming, but deeply suspicious, corporate CEO, the sanctuary presents a beautiful facade. Dolittle and Maya soon discover that Golden Grove is hiding a dangerous and far-reaching secret: a deliberate, man-made attempt to manipulate animal genetics that has catastrophically backfired. With the help of a new crew of wise-cracking animal allies—voiced by Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, and Benedict Wong—the Dolittle duo must work fast to find the antidote before the entire animal kingdom loses its mind forever.