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Mr. Popper's Penguins

  • 2011
  • PG
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
101K
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Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.
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The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.The life of a businessman begins to change after he inherits six penguins, and as he transforms his apartment into a winter wonderland, his professional side starts to unravel.

  • Director
    • Mark Waters
  • Writers
    • Sean Anders
    • John Morris
    • Jared Stern
  • Stars
    • Jim Carrey
    • Carla Gugino
    • Angela Lansbury
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    101K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mark Waters
    • Writers
      • Sean Anders
      • John Morris
      • Jared Stern
    • Stars
      • Jim Carrey
      • Carla Gugino
      • Angela Lansbury
    • 153User reviews
    • 181Critic reviews
    • 53Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 3 nominations

    Videos14

    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Trailer #2
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins - Trailer #1
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    "Surfing the Guggenheim"
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: It's An Infestation
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Surfing The Guggenheim
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Hi Live Penguin
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Music Video (Uk)
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: They Are Happy Here
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Bye Bye Birdie
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: S'nice And S'natural
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Take My Penguin, Please
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    Mr. Popper's Penguins: Captain, Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey And Nimrod
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    Jim Carrey and Desmin Borges in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Madeline Carroll, and Maxwell Perry Cotton in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey and Maxwell Perry Cotton in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
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    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
    Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
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    Jim Carrey
    Jim Carrey
    • Mr. Popper
    Carla Gugino
    Carla Gugino
    • Amanda
    Angela Lansbury
    Angela Lansbury
    • Mrs. Van Gundy
    Ophelia Lovibond
    Ophelia Lovibond
    • Pippi
    Madeline Carroll
    Madeline Carroll
    • Janie
    Clark Gregg
    Clark Gregg
    • Nat Jones
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor
    • Mr. Gremmins
    David Krumholtz
    David Krumholtz
    • Kent
    Philip Baker Hall
    Philip Baker Hall
    • Franklin
    Maxwell Perry Cotton
    Maxwell Perry Cotton
    • Billy
    James Tupper
    James Tupper
    • Rick
    Dominic Chianese
    Dominic Chianese
    • Reader
    William Charles Mitchell
    • Yates
    • (as William C. Mitchell)
    Henry Kelemen
    Henry Kelemen
    • Young Tommy Popper
    • (as Henry Keleman)
    Kelli Barrett
    Kelli Barrett
    • Tommy's Mom
    Dylan Clark Marshall
    Dylan Clark Marshall
    • Young Tommy Popper #2
    Brian T. Delaney
    Brian T. Delaney
    • Young Tom Popper, Sr.
    • (voice)
    Elaine Kussack
    • Gremmins's Secretary
    • Director
      • Mark Waters
    • Writers
      • Sean Anders
      • John Morris
      • Jared Stern
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      What attracted Jim Carrey to this role more than anything else was the chance to dance with penguins like his hero Dick Van Dyke did in Mary Poppins (1964).
    • Goofs
      Even penguin eggs must be kept warm to hatch. The movie implies otherwise.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Popper: Hello! I have to send the penguins back.

      Voice On Phone: Send-da-penguin?

      Mr. Popper: Yes, send penguins.

    • Crazy credits
      No penguins were harmed in the making of this film. Jim Carrey, on the other hand, was bitten mercilessly. But he had it coming.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #19.160 (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
      Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

    User reviews153

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    Featured review
    Positively petulant, pandering and painful.
    By now, Jim Carrey's career is one lined with a long history of hit and misses—from the zaney and energetic debut of Ace Ventura, to the less than stellar murmur of say, Bruce Almighty, Carrey is one of those comedic actors who occasionally takes his brand of comedy to breaking point, but somehow manages to stick around and continue raking in the dough. Flash forward now to the summer of 2011 where the comedic landscape in terms of family features in the cinema all seem to heading in the same direction—talking animals—and you have a no brainer; hey, let's put those cute little fellas from Happy Feet in with that guy who made us a lot of money by pulling dumb faces! Sure; sounds like it could have potential, but in order to reach that potential one would have to, you know, write a script and not just mash them together with a generic by-the-numbers Big Business Man Learns To Be A Good Dad plot. Instead however what we're left with is an insulting homage to all things kitsch and puerile that repeats the same jokes over and over ad nauseam to the point of sheer boredom.

    The plot is simple: Mr. Popper is a wealthy business man who has all the riches in the world, but lacks the one currency that sells movies; love. Struggling to father his children in the same way that his father provided little support for him, Mr. Popper ends up inheriting a box of penguins from his recently deceased dad as a means of (somehow) connecting and finding the love that he lost through his short-sighting endeavours. What follows of course is exactly what you might expect from that brief synopsis, and maybe a quick look at a minute of the trailer. At first driving Popper up the wall, the penguins who each have their own delightful trait (we have Captain, Loudy, Bitey, Stinky, Lovey and Nimrod) soon warm up to their cold-hearted owner and vice versa as everyone involved learns that big fancy houses and a six figure income only matter as long as you're having fun and loving everything and wearing sweaters and giving high fives and being as routinely sickly as humanely possible without starring in an advertisement for the Nintendo Wii. Oh, and there are poop and fart jokes; and penguins running into things; plenty of them.

    As much of a stinker that the script is however, there was a time when one could rely on Jim Carrey and his assorted hijinks to bounce off stage and interrupt everyone's heavy eyelid batting and make us laugh, but even Carrey who is clearly showing his age here in this glossy advertisement for The American Dream fails to make much of an impression. There are a couple of moments here and there where Mr. Popper can be amusing, but for the most part he's like a bland, dislikeable caricature of Donald Trump. I mean, this is the same guy who made a lawyer the funniest person the screen during the summer of 1997— surely a salesman shouldn't be a problem? But it is; a real big one. And as it comes to its long overdrawn erratic conclusion, you get the impression that Carrey's comedic career is one destined to drown in a sea of similar safe-play Eddie Murphy-esque family comedies that leave adults snoring and kids running up and down the aisles. As Pippi Peponopolis might say; it's positively petulant, pandering and painful, Mr. Popper! So please, please stop pretending like love is the answer when clearly money is all that was on the minds of everyone involved here—that's you're problem and how you fix it—obviously—is to give everyone at 20th Century Fox a penguin. Yabsolutely!
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    • Aug 8, 2011

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    • Release date
      • June 17, 2011 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bầy Cánh Cụt Nhà Popper
    • Filming locations
      • Steiner Studios - 15 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Davis Entertainment
      • Dune Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $55,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $68,224,452
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $18,445,355
      • Jun 19, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $187,361,754
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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