Adults may need to stretch your patience to accommodate the level of absurdity inherent with improbability and impracticality of businessman New York to raise six penguins in his apartment, but Mr. Popper's Penguins is not really meant for the discerning viewer. Children find bumbling, chubby creatures entertaining has no complaints, and a familial bond in parallel with a waddle of penguins device is not worst moral message one could offer to young children. Yet there are those of us who believe that Jim Carrey, while not entirely antagonistic as a father of two children and six flightless birds could do greater things.
While Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) pushes for a promotion on his property, purchase partnership, he finds himself further parted from his ex-wife Amanda (Carla Gugino as Laurie Roberts) and her children Billy (Maxwell Perry cotton) and Janie (Madeline Carroll). When he unexpectedly OSH conditions six penguins from his estranged pop possessions, and Billy error the pesky pets for his birthday present, determines Popper to protect his plumaged companions. As he struggles to balance provides for his new patrons with pressure from his persistent employers, Popper also attempt to reconnect with his family while parrying harmful plot a fastidious zoo proprietor (Clark Gregg) output intent on poaching penguins to his own prehensile purposes.
The biggest problem with Mr. Popper's Penguins is the lack of realism. Although it is clearly fantasy, and targeting a young audience, complete disregard for the consequences and implications of ridiculous, especially since the police and a dedicated, nemesis zookeeper included specifically for the purpose of verification and reasoning. "We had fun, but it is time to get back to reality," says Popper, when authorities step and penguins are treated just like real animals professional care. The entire movie may have worked more believably if it was animated. It is bad enough that the CG Penguins are quite visually distinguished from their live action trained counterparts.
Jim Carrey is right at home in the role of a meaningless, overacting, idiosyncratic man struggling desperately to boycott his shattered romantic relationship and separation from his kids-the same kind of character he has played his entire career, and probably nothing like the popular source material (the filmmakers probably tried in vain to wheel him). With gags such as a woman, which sputters extreme band name, the typical soccer ball to the groin, the tuxedo-suits waddlers stroll through the Guggenheim and a crowded New York street unnoticed and penguin excrement squirted in the face, Mr. Popper's Penguins are unfathomably awkward, bland, uninspired, unoriginal and largely meaningless. Dialogue and situations is pitiful and the supporting characters give a little relief from Carrey's obnoxiousness. If it were not for a couple of short clips from some of Chaplin's films, the whole event would have been seriously perplexed.
Massie www-twins.GoneWithTheTwins.com
Massie twins are identical twin movie critics, who have professional review films full-time for over 5 years, appearing on TV, radio, online and in print. They are members of the Phoenix Film Critics Society and Internet Film critic society and their work can be seen on http://www.gonewiththetwins.com/.
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