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Mr. Popper's Penguins Trailer: Damnit, Jim Carrey. Stop Softening Children's Brains

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (14)

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Is there some sort of Hollywood law that says that comedy actors who hit a certain level of fame must spend the second stage of their careers doing an inordinate number of family films? Eddie Murphy. Will Ferrell. Ben Stiller. Mike Myers. Jim Carrey. Stop it. Lay the fuck off. Get away from my children! You’re causing brain damage. Stop ruining classic children’s stories. You think 70 years ago, when Richard Atwater wrote Mr. Popper’s Penguins, that he imagined a future where a man who gained fame by talking out of his ass would play the lead character in the cinematic adaptation of his film? Are these movies a goddamn excuse for filthy-rich actors to trade in their name, mug for the camera, and collect a goddamn paycheck? Cut it out! Our kids deserve better. They are the future, after all. And if they continue to grow up on Ben Stiller and Jim Carrey family films, their brains are going to rot out of their goddamn heads and no one will be left to fund my Social Security checks.

Here’s the teaser trailer for Mr. Popper’s Penguins. It looks kind of cute (well, the dance sequence, anyway). Shut up.









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Comments

Those are gentoo penguins in the header pic.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 24, 2011 10:13 AM

please note: carla gugino.

again: carla gugino.

that will absolutely, positively get it on my netflix queue.

Posted by: matty boy at March 24, 2011 10:17 AM

I just think you hate penguins. Next you'll tell me you hate Surf's Up and The Penguin and the Pebble.

Posted by: Robert at March 24, 2011 10:34 AM

Dustin is an anti-penguite?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 24, 2011 10:40 AM

Dustin disapproves of anything that doesn't perform as advertised. Penguins are birds that don't fly. He fucking hates that shit.

(Kballs! Welcome back, man. -- DR)

Posted by: Kballs at March 24, 2011 10:49 AM

Plus those gentoos in the header are totally dislocating their shoulders. What are they primates now? Hollywood fails again.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 24, 2011 10:53 AM

Wow. You are really harsh on Jim Carrey. While Ace Ventura was pretty sophmoric, I feel like the guy has given us some pretty decent performances, and, at a point, he was quite a funny man. I have zero problem with him doing a family film. To be honest, in my book, The Truman Show pretty much gives that guy a free pass to do anything.

Posted by: Mike D at March 24, 2011 10:53 AM

I'm sorry Dustin, but I can't hear anti-penguites. King Penguins, sure, I can't fault you there, that sh*t is f*cked up, but have you seen an Adelie? Have you?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 24, 2011 10:55 AM

It has penguins, hence, my wife and I will see it at some point. Maybe I'll chase it own with The Number 23 for shits and giggles.

Posted by: Markus at March 24, 2011 11:16 AM

"no one will be left to fund my Social Security checks."
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I have some bad news for you ...

Posted by: , at March 24, 2011 11:19 AM

Plus those gentoos in the header are totally dislocating their shoulders. What are they primates now? Hollywood fails again.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at March 24, 2011 10:53 AM

Those birds could be the product of Intelligent Design.
Or Cirque De Soliel performers.

Neither theory explains Jim Carrey.

Posted by: clocker at March 24, 2011 11:38 AM

Oh God. This book was my absolute favorite growing up. I read it at least three times a year. I'm almost too afraid to watch the trailer knowing Jim Carrey might rape my childhood in a few moments.

Posted by: beckster at March 24, 2011 1:00 PM

Jim Carrey just raped Mary Poppins.

And he sounded like Burt (Dick Van Dyke) a couple of times.

Posted by: BWeaves at March 24, 2011 1:37 PM

I couldn't see the video, it's not available in my country it seems, but I guess what's more important is the wisdom of the stories kids watch? I guess all kids like Jim Carrey and would like to see the story with him? He's a good actor and could have a lot of positive influence on kids? Even if the movie or the performance of the actors aren't very good according to our opinion, the wisdom still stays? And a story could have a great influence on a kid's mind! I remember how a friend of mine woke up at 6,30 a.m. and trained and run before school just because he wanted to be like Rocky, the famous boxer. Two kids of a friend of mine were so inspired by my Tale Of The Rock Pieces that they began to learn all the interesting facts about animals and plants and took a good care of their health, doing exercises every day. Even today, when they are shrewd youngsters, they don't drink strong drinks and don't smoke and still remember the many adventures from my story that inspired them that way as no teacher or manual could...

Posted by: Ivan Stoikov - Allan Bard at March 25, 2011 10:52 AM