'Mr. Popper's Penguins'

'Mr. Popper's Penguins' (PG) (1 1/2 stars)

Writers: Sean Anders, John Morris and Jared Stern
Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Clark Gregg, Madeline Carroll,
Dominic Chianese, Jeffrey Tambor, David Krumholtz, Phillip Baker Hall,
Ophelia Lovibond, Angela Lansbury

What an excruciating chore it is to sit through something insipid and unimaginative like "Popper's Penguins". This is a family comedy that insults families. This is a comedy that is super dull, unfunny and dumb. The movie is just wall to wall bathroom humor, penguins taking dumps and creepy CGI effects. I think I counted ten times where the penguins go to the bathroom and one time where they dance and that is the whole movie. You can tell when the penguins are computer created and it comes off cheap and creepy. Jim Carrey is not funny during any moment in this movie. This movie has taken one of our funniest actors and made him pathetic and unfunny. He is going down that Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams trap. That is where they make all these cloying family comedies that are all poop jokes.

Jim Carrey's career will be ruined if he doesn't stop making these comedies. The Farrelly brothers or Judd Apatow or someone who can write raunchy, funny comedy with heart has to write something for Carrey. In Penguins he is neutered and stifled and it is very sad. He can't even succeed in independent movies like the lame "I Love You Phillip Morris". I miss the old Jim Carrey and penguin crap like Penguins is not helping me.