Movie review of Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The artistic failure is generally expected when a major Hollywood star teams up with an animal. This is especially true for Jim Carrey who is committed in “Mr. Popper’s Penguins, “a tasteless joke should have remained a children’s book.

The wave of penguin’s emperor penguins and other so present in the middle of the last decade is back. Better late than never? Maybe not for this particular film adaptation of a popular missed novel published in 1938.

Having dusted off “A Christmas Carol” and “Horton Hears a who!” Jim Carrey is still in a register in which he plays classic Mr. Popper, a businessman from New York to become a better person by welcoming home for penguins!

You want to win back the beloved? Ensure that your children speak? Reconnect with the true values of life and learn that overwork is harmful to one’s own happiness? So do you buy or penguins! This is a lesson in life that can make a good story for the whole family, but as long as you draw the beast.

This is not the case the most recent feature film by Mark Waters, who offered in the past the successful “Mean Girls” and “The Spiderwick Chronciles” but also the annoying “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.” Everything in “Mr. Popper’s Penguins “feels the story and predigested horrifying: the moral supported these improbabilities that can cross the Big Apple as fast as a superhero and the situations extremely naive, even for a child of three years. What writers want to return to their five pencils or book by Richard and Florence Atwater?

If everything was actually funny, we easily forgive the many misdemeanors. But no. The humor is limited to receiving a ball on the face or in the fork, or to see a dozen times of white and black people urinate or defecate. Once this can possibly be funny, But more than ten? What are losing faith in front of these animals so cute but no real charm, as the building to the computer remains crude and obvious? Was the case in the days of “Dr. Dolittle, “except that the first effort that featured Eddie Murphy had freshness, a nice little side badly needed here.

The interpretation of casual talented actors is useless since the characters are one-dimensional. Jim Carrey has already broken the jaws in this universe to Capra (with “The Majestic”) and sometimes it pales next to the penguins. So much that he feels compelled to return to his reflexes (grimaces, screams and company). Here’s one that should always be limited to serious roles even if the box office generally responds positively to its most exuberant performances.

“Mr. Popper’s Penguins “has the good sense to not laugh once or move, which is simply a feat. The trailer may have been wrong and the production confirms this crash and burn. After the horrible “Judy Moody” last week, we must choose the movie to go with the children. Strongly the release of “Cars 2″ in a few days!