Big vs Zookeeper
Big has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 5.4/10 for Zookeeper). Zookeeper is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 1h 44m. Big is the older of the two (1988 against 2011). Both are comedy, family, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Big
Zookeeper| Big | Zookeeper | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2011 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance | Comedy, Family, Romance |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Penny Marshall | Frank Coraci |
| Main cast | Tom Hanks, John Heard, Jon Lovitz, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins | Donnie Wahlberg, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb, Nicholas Turturro, Tom Woodruff Jr. |
Synopsis
Big
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
Zookeeper
Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but he's more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species as proven by his failed marriage proposal to the self-absorbed Stephanie several years ago. The animals have listened to Griffin pine over her for years and, after she reappears in his life, they decide to help Griffin rekindle the relationship and become the alpha male she wants…