khnum3 Ah,Friday night!After watching The Looney Tunes:Back in Action,I thought is there anything a bit more interesting than the commercial I watched before (except for the battle with Marvin,the other was...usually I don't make a review of not successful movie because it's easy to say "trash" at something bad instead to share a review of a nice done work.Anyway.)And I saw there is a TV premiere of "Mr.Popper's Penguins" starring Jim Carrey.And so I watched it. The story is pretty good.How a group of noisy freeze-loving cute birds could take a separated family back together.It shows a businessman,living alone in a apartment(which I very liked-it was like...Vallhala to mid-class apartments),crushed by his childhood and absent presence of his dad,until (spoilers-try-to-stop-moment)you are getting to know the title.The actors played nice also we could see Jim Carrey in serious moments (of course there are some his crazy appearances) which proves his Hollywood-star position as a good actor who not only freaks out in movies.All the obstacles to reaching the theme-family and love(not only sexual way.As an action to love somebody as the part of the most important purpose-the family ,which includes the penguins,represented as a part of Popper's world,and to be loved as a member of that.Most notable is still Jim Carrey but the other actors did also a very good job.Such as Carla Gucino and (my favorite's character-Mrs.Van Gundy played by Angela Lansbury.The villain here is represented by ({Agent}...{ughm}...{Coulson}...something in my throat)Clark Gregg whom character is greedy for money and suspicious who finally gets what deserves.I thinks the most supporting role is for the kids of the main "hero".All of his walked way gets by the help of them and ,of course,to develop the character.There are a pretty funny moments which elevates the movie in to very good class.The dresses are well.The ambiance and atmosphere are correct too.The only thing I voted 8 for it is because of 2 things.Now I think if a movie is a good one it needs a memorable background music but that's my opinion.But the other taken point is for my question -"What I have learned from this movie?".Is it about to never give up,to not be greedy or to love our families and never desperate.For me it's not easy to pick the right one as well all presents in the film but which is the valuable one? Anyway "Mr.Popper's Penguins" is a nice film for desperate or Christmas moments when all the family gadders up and could have some good time.

lisafordeay I've been a fan of this guy since the early 1990s as a kid as he starred in A lot of over the top comedies that made me laugh out loud. From Dumb & Dumber to The Mask to Ace Ventura,basically he was the king of Comedy back in the old days. Since then his comedy isn't as funny as it used to be and here is an example of one film that wasn't as funny as his old school comedy movies. He plays a man who as a kid his father couldn't spend some time with him so he sends him a penguin that he receives in his front door of his apartment. But when he wants to get rid of the penguin he ends up getting 6 more of them the next day. Of course his son's birthday is approaching and his son is over the moon and even his ex wife(well it doesn't state but she must be his ex wife)even takes the penguins in too. But of course a zoo keeper wants to send them back to where they came from and its up to Carrey and his family to save the penguins.Overall I enjoyed this movie as it was on RTE ONE last night as the big big movie and I never seen it before so I decided to go and check it out. Carrey isn't as funny as he is in like I said his old school comedies because his getting older and his wacky side isn't as wacky as he used to be,but if your like me and your a fan of Carrey's since his career. Than check it out. Bottom line I prefer his old school movies more. 5/10

tombiddy87 This may be a film mainly aimed at kids but even so it is a mess. The outline plot is Tom Popper inherits a penguin which his Father leaves to him in his will and some how after attempting to get rid of the penguin ends up with five more. We all know what sort of film were expecting when you put Jim Carrey and a bunch of penguins together but the plot made no sense. It's becomes the norm for films portray Dads as always working and never spending enough time with their kids and that's exactly how Tom Popper(Jim Carrey) is portrayed in this film. It's called real life, People have to work. Another non sensical moment is when a animal expert comes to his flat to try and convince him to have the penguins because they need to leave in certain conditions and he is portrayed as the bad guy for thinking of the penguins best welfare.Sadly no individual performance seems to stand out but the script doesn't do it any favours. It needs to be kept in ming that this is mainly aimed at kids who will enjoy it but it is a shame it couldn't work on more then one level.

g-bodyl Jim Carrey's Mr.Popper's Penguins is actually a better film than I anticipated. This film actually reminded me of the Jim Carrey of old. He had some of his 90's slapstick despite it being toned down for a family audience. I really liked the penguins in this film. They were quite mischievous but cute. After watching this film, I came to respect penguins even more.Mark Water's film is about one of those divorced fathers with two children who in order to get his kids to like him again, he decides to keep some penguins that his dad sent him. However, there is a certain zookeeper standing in the way.Jim Carrey was pretty good in this. He is not up to his usual antics but he's getting close. Clark Gregg makes a good, villainous zookeeper. It was also nice to see Angela Lansbury in a movie again.Overall, this is a decent comedy that the whole family would enjoy. There's not too much in the way of violence which is a good thing. These penguins are enough to keep the kids entertained. There may be a few slow moments but all-in-all I liked this film better than the critics did. I rate this film 8/10.