The path of post-superstardom is a treacherous one for big-screen comedians, paved as it is with second-rate opportunities for dramedy schmaltz (See: Robin Williams in Patch Adams), wretched remakes ...
“Mr. Popper’s Penguins” is as generic and predictable as movies get. Despite its potentially funny premise, it takes no chances and results in one of the blandest comedies of the year. The plot can ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
FOR THE BIRDS Carrey threatens to go all Cable Guy on one of the creatures that easily upstage him in Mark Waters’ kids’ flick. Perhaps it’s not fair for adults to review movies that obviously weren’t ...
Watch a scene from the film "Mr. Popper's Penguins." Video courtesy of 20th Century Fox. This Tech Founder’s $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung ...
Feeling like a desperate bid to revive that old "Ace Ventura" magic with Jim Carrey bringing a sextet of penguins into his tony Manhattan apartment, "Mr. Popper's Penguins" is actually rooted in the ...
“Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” a mildly amusing flight of fancy for the family crowd, is far better for its penguins than its Popper. Not that Jim Carrey’s Mr. Popper is poorly done, per se. But the ...
The penguin-poop jokes are as inevitable as they are stupid-funny. With, say, Eddie Murphy as the star, Mr. Popper’s Penguins might have been a glorified paycheck contrivance. But Carrey is so ...
Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
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