'Mr. Popper's Penguins' starring Jim Carrey

[Morcheeba]

Guess you have to be a fan of Jim Carrey and penguins to enjoy this film because I've just read some awful reviews. Where do people get off saying this was a flop and Jim Carrey sucks?

Granted, Carrey seemed to have lost his mind for a while per his weirder than weird Tweets, video lust for Emma Stone and other zany public stuff... but I rather liked this side of him in such a cute holiday movie.

It's lighthearted, the penguins are adorable, the story starts slow but moves along and has you hoping for the best regardless of the absurdity of it all... then eventually you sigh in relief with a smile. Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" is played during the credits and all is good.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTcwMDI4NjEyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzg5MzEwNQ@@._V1._SY317_.jpg


Fuck the Scrooges frowning upon it.

It's better than you'd think.

 

[trysail]

Mr. Popper's Penguins was one of our favourite childhood books. We roared with laughter.


Hollyweird has a truly extraordinary ability to fuck up good stories— it is nearly axiomatic. 95% of the time, the book is better.

 

[Morcheeba]

Found some (parents) with great reviews for the film...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396218/reviews

Trysail, the book came out in 1938 and you roared with laughter then?

 

[Saint Peter]

Is this Windex blue?

Or is it this one?

 

[Saint Peter]

The first one.

I always get those fuckered up.

 

[Morcheeba]

Awww, you cared enough to post with thee very best!

 

[Saint Peter]

Color makes or breaks the poster.

 

[Morcheeba]

Just kidding, Trysail...

12 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
Fun for adults, too!, 16 July 2011
Author: plamya-1 from United States


On our way to an "adult" film (the theater turned out to be inaccessible), we ended up at "Mr. Popper's Penguins," which my friend remembered as a book that her now-29-year-old daughter had enjoyed. I can't remember an evening of more unadulterated, good-hearted laughs in ages.

Viewers should be cautioned to abandon any need for verisimilitude. This is not "March of the Penguin," although Jim Carrey does reference Morgan Freeman in one line. The human children, however, are delightfully true-to-life, in their enthusiasms and frustrations. The penguins, however, manage to exhibit a charming mixture of human-child mischief appropriate to their penguin natures -- sliding on any slippery surface, splashing wherever possible, finding refuge in any icy habitat available in a Manhattan apartment.

The dialogue is very well written and well paced. Jim Carrey is at his best -- annoyingly over- the-top as a slick sales executive, genuinely bonding with his surrogate children as time goes on -- a virtual "Marty Poppins." Angela Lansbury displays her mastery of her craft as a wealthy dowager quite unlike the charming "Jessica Fletcher" persona.

 

[Morcheeba]

Color makes or breaks the poster.

*Tebowing

 

[Saint Peter]

Why would you go to a theater to see an "adult film" when there is so much free porn online?

 

[Morcheeba]

I guess some with kids figure any movie not rated G is an adult movie. Then again, if you read their wordy reviews, it's like they're all related to Ebert and know a thing or two about a thing or three when it comes to movies.

Watched it via PayPerView on DirecTV over the weekend.

 

[Saint Peter]

Does it have any good double penetration scenes?

I love those as long as the cocks do not touch.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Does it have any good double penetration scenes?

I love those as long as the cocks do not touch.

That's ghey.

 

[Saint Peter]

That's ghey.

Terribly.


Wanna tag team Cheebs?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Terribly.


Wanna tag team Cheebs?

I get the front half.

 

[Saint Peter]

Should we lube her up or just go for it dry?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Should we lube her up or just go for it dry?

I've never actually seen her, so I can't say.

 

[Saint Peter]

I've never actually seen her, so I can't say.

Maybe the back half would have been a better choice for you.

 

[trysail]

Found some (parents) with great reviews for the film...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396218/reviews

Trysail, the book came out in 1938 and you roared with laughter then?

*grinning*

Nah— one of the parental units knew of the book. Mr. Popper's Penguins was a childhood classic.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/92/PopperCover.jpg/200px-PopperCover.jpg​

It was one of a long series of books that the 'rents either read to us or placed under our collective noses. There were all the C.S. Lewis books and the "Lobster books" and the Mother West Wind series and Kipling's Jungle Book and hundreds of others.

 

[Morcheeba]

Wish I had "Bitey" the biting penguin right about now. I'd sic him on a select duo in here.

 

[Morcheeba]

I recall being read the C.S. Lewis books before/during naptime in elementary school. My teacher had such a way about her that I would sit front and center and stare at her cameltoe as she went on and on about the lions and their wardrobe.

 

[KRCummings]

Haven't seen it, don't have any interest in seeing it. Movies about cute animals annoy the fuck out of me more often than not. Not gonna see that zoo movie either.

 

[Saint Peter]

Haven't seen it, don't have any interest in seeing it. Movies about cute animals annoy the fuck out of me more often than not. Not gonna see that zoo movie either.

Are you up for some tag teaming?

You can use my cock if you don't have one.

 

[KRCummings]

Are you up for some tag teaming?

You can use my cock if you don't have one.

I haven't played tag in years.

 

[Saint Peter]

I haven't played tag in years.

It is like riding a bike!