The movie that I hated the most: Mr. Popper's Penguins

By: SYLVIA GODOI REYES

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a film released in June 2011, the director was Mark Waters and its cast included actors like Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll and others.

Mr. Popper's Penguins tells the story of Tommy Popper, who as a child was every night waiting for the time to communicate with his father through a radio, because this was the only way to talk to him, due to tours around the world that his father was doing all the time, so did not have much physical contact.

 Today Mr. Popper is a successful salesman in the city of Manhattan. He is divorced, with two children from his previous marrige, and lives in a luxury apartment located in the center of the city, where lives a comfortable, quiet and carefree life.

Popper`s two children are called Madeline and Max. Popper only has contact with them from time to time, and don’t shows a real interest in them.

When his life was in perfect conditions, and he thinks that nothing can be better in his life, Popper receives a wooden box that his father had left him before he died along with a letter, which contained the last words and wishes that his father wanted to tell him in person, but the circumstances had made it impossible.

When he opened the box, Popper saw that inside was a figure, life-size, of a penguin, which seemed very unappealing and tasteless. He thought that this figure could even be a toy that his father had sent from his last trip.

When popper back home that same day he realized that the penguin was not a toy, but a real penguin that was screaming and sliding down the department. It was a big surprise when he realized it that it was not just a penguin, but several more inside the box.

Eventually popper and his sons began to love the penguins, who teach them a lesson that was stay together as a family and support each other no matter what happen.

Even when Mr. Popper's Penguins is a film for all viewers and has a white humor, I found it very boring. I thought that if the film was performed by Jim Carrey this would be much more fun and I would laugh more often during the show.

Perhaps the actor was trying to turn around his career, however see Jim Carrey in this type of film, in my opinion, creates expectations that are not met at the end. Jim seems to me that not only did not identify himself with the character, but his career did not generate synergies with this film in particular, synergies that were reflected even in dramatic films such as “number 23”, but these movies are a clear reflection that Jim is having a bad time in his career. Another point that I did not like was the slow flow of the film, nothing happened in the first hour to make you laugh or to that makes a significant contribution to the story, however I think that the main reason of my disappointment with the film was the great expectation that I had in it based on its cast and advertising. There is nothing worse than paying for something and get something else.