***^ Mr. Popper’s Penguins
This
is a good forum for Jim Carrey to interact with some penguins in his
suite in New York. Carrey portrays Mr. Popper, a businessman who is hoping to be made partner. He has one more assignment to earn the promotion.
Purchase the property of Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), the last
available property in Central Park. The company wants to knock it down
and then make a large sky scraper of some kind to make lots of money. Popper
approaches the project with this goal in mind. However Mrs. Van Gundy
is not selling, she does not want to let down her staff.
In the mean time, Popper receives a last present from his father who has deceased—penguins.
At
first the penguins are a nuisance and troublesome, but eventually they
grow on Popper. It is when his son comes for a birthday, and thinks
they are his cool present, that Popper decides to keep them instead of
giving them to the zoo. However, the penguin master at the zoo is
intent on getting them.
The
penguins destroy a meeting with Mrs. Van Gundy, but Popper persists.
When they have eggs, he becomes obsessed with the penguins; but then one
egg doesn’t hatch. He becomes discouraged, and sends the penguins to
the zoo. He is just the same old Popper who is only worried about his
career, not his kids or ex-wife. However the kids are so disappointed,
he decides to get them back, and his wife goes with him as a date. The
zoo keeper says they can’t have them, he has traded them with other zoos
for other specimens. However they haven’t been sent yet and we have a
big zoo escape scene.
This
movie was pretty fun. Sheri had read the book. It is another family
oriented theme movie—what is more important, your career or your
relationships?
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