Starring Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall, David Krumholtz, Jeffrey Tambor, Maxwell Perry Cotton and Dominic Chianese. Directed by Mark Waters.★★½
It's Jim Carrey in family-film mode. This harmless, fluffy lil comedy is about a man who inherits six penguins. Somehow they get delivered to his high-rise apartment, and he can't figure out how to get rid of them. But just when he thinks he has a solution, his ex-wife and two kids find out about them, and the kids love them. So he decides to keep them to help bring him closer to his kids.
I don't believe a real penguin was ever used. They looked CGI the whole time. In fact I could picture how they'd do the animated scene if Mary Poppins were ever rebooted.
Mark Waters (Freaky Friday) has some decent touches, and the supporting cast is a little better than usual for something like this. It bares very little resemblance to the book on which it's based, but it's a decent rental, even if you don't plan on being in the room with your kids when they watch it.
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