Griffin Keyes is the main protagonist of the 2011 comedy Zookeeper.
He is portrayed by Kevin James, who also played Doug Heffernan in the King of Queens, Will Cooper in Pixels, Frankenstein in the first Hotel Transylvania movies, Paul Blart in the Paul Blart franchise, Scott Voss in Here Comes the Boom, Eric Lamonsoff in the Grown Ups films, and Otis in Barnyard.
Personality[]
Griffin Keyes is a kind-hearted head zookeeper in a large city zoo. He loves his job, and is popular with the animals. There's only one problem – five years later, he's still getting over the rejection of his marriage proposal to his old girlfriend Stephanie. He runs into her at his brother's engagement party (at the zoo, no less), rekindles his romance and she not so subtly tries to mold him to her liking. After discovering that he can actually talk to the zoo animals, he uses their advice to romance her, oblivious meanwhile to his co-worker Kate's affection for him. Griffin finally realizes Stephanie is not for him, and with the help of the Bernie the gorilla, he finds himself, and finds his way back to Kate just in time to find true love.
Biography[]
Kindhearted Griffin Keyes is one of the best-loved caretakers at the Franklin Park Zoo, but since he is more comfortable with the animals than with females of his own species, his love life is lacking. When Griffin decides that the only way to get a girlfriend is to find a more-glamorous career, the animals panic. To keep him from leaving, they reveal their secret ability to talk and offer to teach him the rules of courtship, animal style.
The animals help Griffin look like a hero infront of Stephanie by having Melvin the lion scare her before Griffin finds out that the animals can talk. The animals help him to get back with Stephanie despite them hearing him talk about the break up for 5 years since it happened. He goes to the rehearsal dinner to try to get his relationship back with Stephanie before he was stopped by her ex-boyfriend Gale. Then tried to talk to Stephanie while biking with her at a local park before finding out that she is going to marry Gale.
Later, Griffin brings Bernie out his closure and brings him to TGI Friday's despite him wanting to see the city. He and Bernie drink sodas and dance around the place and had a good time. Griffin goes to Stephanie's wedding party along with his friend Kate as an attempt to make her jealous which ended up failing. The animals tell him how to stand up against Gale which went successful.
After quitting his dealership job that was offered by his brother, He dumps Stephanie after she attempted to propose to him and regains his friendship with Bernie. While on the way there he goes Shane's house and goes to his room and punches Shane causing him to slam against the wall before leaving his house. He and Bernie manage to make their way over to the Manhattan Bridge to stop Kate from going to the airport. They manage to stop Kate from leaving before Griffin and Kate fell in love.
