Mr. Popper's Penguins: Press reviews

'Sweet-natured, undemanding family fun.'

'anodyne family entertainment... It's not an awful film but, in the end, it's nothing much at all.'

'Raises the odd chortle but is unlikely to appeal to anyone over 10.'

'Whether or not this movie sets off a new penguin craze, it will probably sell some penguin merchandise and provide about 90 minutes of tolerable jollity'

'The best thing about Mr Popper's Penguins is that it makes no discernible sense.'

'You might as well walk out after 45 minutes of Mr Popper's Penguins because the film walks out on you'.

'It's one thing for a writer-director to make a nostalgic film about his childhood, but it's another to make a nostalgic film about the way someone else has represented childhood already'.

'the laughter is intermittent and is ultimately overwhelmed by a wave of sentimentality'.

'Predictable and daft, it's still great fun with a superb turn from Clark Gregg as a villainous zookeeper.'

'Mr Popper's Penguins is much more bearable than most Bad Dad comedies'.

'As family entertainment for the summer holidays it isn't bad, and Britain's Ophelia Lovibond does well as Popper's perky assistant, though Carrey is fundamentally subdued'.

'Easy-to-please knee-highs will almost certainly chuckle at all the farting, pooing, squawking and bumping into things, and I confess to smirking a couple of times too. But holy mother of pearl, talk about superficial claptrap! '

'Wow, this script is inventive. Perhaps it was written by penguins'.