Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)

Nothing makes me sadder than seeing Jim Carrey fall farther and farther in obscurity. Based off of a book written in the 1930s, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is the riveting tale of a man who goes completely insane after a penguin arrives at his door. Divorced and mentally estranged from his children, Thomas Popper (Carrey) is painted as a horrible person who actually puts effort into his job, and tries to have a life for himself. What a terrible person. But the film shows that this is because he has daddy issues, and his father left him with six penguins when he died. The kids fall in love with the penguins, and he starts dating the mom again, all because of twenty minutes and penguins, which makes perfect sense. But, due to their infatuation with penguins, he has to keep them from the environmental agency, his boss, and the owners of his apartment, Mr. Popper has to defy all logic and moral ideology for a bunch of penguins. And even though this makes absolutely no sense, it could work if it was funny. But this movie just is not funny. There are no memorable jokes in this film. There is one sweet moment in there, and if the film had cut off then, I might have warmed up to it. But it kept for twenty more minutes, with bad jokes, bad acting, and this one chick who kept using the letter P so much I wanted to strangle the letter out of her vocabulary. But there is just no reason to see this movie. The characters are annoying, the jokes are terrible, there are actually so many jokes about Jim Carrey squeezing the actual poop out of a penguin, I couldn’t believe that. Apparently that part was left out of March of the Penguins. And speaking of that, you’ll have a better time watching Farce of the Penguins, the trashy direct-to-video spoof than this. I only bothered to watch the trailer for that and I enjoyed it more than this entire movie. This movie is just a terrible movie, and since I have no better segue, I have two points to make. One-On the cover of this DVD, Jim Carrey just looks sad like he is asking for help. Two-this movie was about 5 years too late. In 2006, March of the Penguins and Happy Feet ruled the penguin craze, and now, along with Happy Feet Two, this movie is too little too late. Three-The self-referential segue is the best way. Four-I lied about there only being three points to make.
2.5/10