Dolittle Ending Leaves Moviegoers in Shock

Robert Downey Jr.'s first post-Avengers: Endgame outing, Dolittle, hit theaters this weekend and to say it's been an interesting departure from his time as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Tony Stark would be an understatement. The film hasn't had the best critical reception with its Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score sitting at 17 percent and is expected to be a box office bomb given the size of the budget for the film, which relies on extensive CGI to bring to life the various animals in Dolittle's world. The film has fared a bit better with fans than one might expect - it's currently sitting at a 75 percent Audience Score - but there is one thing that has fans completely stunned: the film's truly bizarre ending.

Before we get too far into things, there are major spoilers for Dolittle beyond this point. Stop reading here unless you really want to know.

To understand the ending of Dolittle, you have to understand how the movie gets there. The brief version is that Dolittle (Downey) is a bigger fan of animals than people and can talk to them, which is useful especially since he is opposed to harming them. However, the Queen of England (Jessie Buckley) has been poisoned and can only be saved by the antidote from the fruit of the magical Eden tree. Dolittle and company - mostly talking animals and a boy who also loves animals (Harry Collett) head out in search of this tree on a secret island. The bad guys follow. When they eventually get to the island, the bad guys, led by Dr Blair Mudfly (Michael Sheen) end up battling with a dragon who is guarding the tree. That doesn't go well for them, but in the aftermath Dolittle approaches and ends up bonding with the guard dragon and discovers that the poor guy is sick.

This is where the ending gets really weird and has fans freaking out. The issue making the dragon sick? Bowel blockage, which prompts Dolittle to put his hand up the dragon's backside and start pulling out a bunch of things you probably wouldn't expect to find in a dragon butt - including bagpipes. Eventually, the dragon passes gas and is cured. The dragon is so happy, he thanks Dolittle by letting him take a piece of the Eden tree's fruit. The day and the queen is saved in the weirdest way possible.

And fans cannot get over that fact. They've taken to social media to try to find some sort of understanding bout the truly strange end to the film and who can blame them? Dragon bowel blockage isn't exactly something that anyone really expected. After all, ComicBook.com's own Charlie Ridgely described the film as "sometimes completely unhinged" in his review.

"Dolittle is a bizarre movie and it is sometimes completely unhinged," he wrote. "It may not seem like it from the trailers, but this thing is all the way out there."

You can read the full review here and read on for fan reaction to Dolittle's bizarre ending below.

Dolittle is now playing in theaters everywhere.