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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
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[Opens Oct. 7 in theaters.] After a down-on-his-luck magic-performing musician (Javier Bardem) leaves his singing, dancing, scarf-wearing, caviar-loving crocodile (voiceover by Shawn Mendes) in a New York City brownstone when it suffers from stage fright in Josh Gordon and Will Speck's delightfully charming, entertaining, well-written, family-geared, humorous, feel-good, evenly paced, 106-minute live-action/CGI musical comedy based on Bernard Waber's 1965 bestselling children's book, a panic-attack-prone, high-strung, asthmatic boy (Winslow Fegley), who lives with his math teacher father (Scoot McNairy) and his chef mother (Constance Wu) and is desperate to make friends, becomes happier and more confident when he befriends the singing crocodile living in the attic and ends up trying to protect his new reptile friend from a curmudgeonly, rule-loving neighbor (Brett Gelman) whose bent on getting his family evicted.

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Year:
2022
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