This is a 2011 movie Mark Walters directed and John Davis produced on a budget of $55m which went on to make $187.4m at the box office. It stars Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry Cotton, Angela Lansbury, Desmin Borges, Philip Baker Hall, Dominic Chianese, Clark Gregg, Ophelia Lovibond, Jeffrey Tambor, David Krumholtz, Henry Keleman, Dylan Clark Marshall with Frank Welker and James Tupper. With the emphasis on Jim in this as this movie really revolves around him and his interaction with the penguins.
I’m straight into the plot here as this movie was based on a very popular book which I haven’t read (sorry! But I haven’t). Jim plays Thomas Popper Jr who is a divorced real estate agent who receives alone at the top of a skyscraper in an apartment. His father sends him a souvenir from his Antarctica visit in his will. He delivers Captain a Gentoo penguin who Thomas gets annoyed with and locks it in the bathroom and goes to work. Unhappy with the situation he makes a call to the estate’s holder who misunderstand his request to collect the flightless bird and send another five penguins to him. OK I will have to look these up but they are Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey, and Nimrod. So, the adventure begins as the penguins run amuck and he slowly gets used to them and keeps them at home turning his home into an ice kingdom. Which his kids love when they come to visit but the noise plus other issues mean they are reported. So, the nasty man from the zoo comes out to take the penguins away *BOOOO* that’s enough of the plot for you me thinks.
This is a lovely little movie that follows Jim as he slowly ends up falling in love with the penguins thrusted upon him. He transports over the course of the movie. Helped by his kids and his ex-wife as well. Well with all my enjoyment of the film the bods of IMDb gave this a 6/10 and a mere 48% from those that process Rotten Tomatoes. I think they are a bit harsh as no this is not an epic movie that will break down barriers and take you on a journey through a life’s story but it still a lovable movie about penguins. And when you have an autistic child in the house who is obsessed about penguins and this keeps them happy and quiet for 1 hour and 34 minutes then that’s parents and children happy. Not only that but it’s a film the parents can enjoy as well which in my book makes this a family movie in all ways possible. Even you yes you could even enjoy it too.
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