【电影简介】

汤姆·波普是一个精神高度紧张的商人，每天都生活在自己对自己的折磨上。他并不开心，当然，这样的生活状态也使得他的生意好不到哪里去。波普急需外界的刺激来改善自己乏善可陈的生活，可是他却不懂得该如何去找刺激。
直到有一天，刺激自己找上了门来……这一天，波普先收到了一只企鹅，之后又收到了五只企鹅。这六只巴布亚企鹅是波普先生继承的遗产，它们被邮寄到了波普在纽约的公寓。波普先生在纽约的公寓原本是一间豪华住宅，里面可以说是应有尽有，各种现代化的家电琳琅满目。可是随着这几只企鹅的到来，这间奢华的公寓起了翻天覆地的变化。为了照顾这几个小家伙的饮食起居，波普先生不得不把公寓变成了极地游乐园，而且他的生活也发生了翻天覆地的变化。
关于本片 由金·凯瑞（Jim Carrey）主演，和六只企鹅同时出现在银幕上。影片《波普先生的企鹅》（Mr. Popper's Penguins）于2011年8月12日上映。
[1] 电影版《波普先生的企鹅》把故事搬到了现代，金·凯瑞扮演的“波普先生”也摇身一变成为财大气粗的商业地产开发商。他从来往并不密切的父亲那里继承了企鹅，为了突出每只企鹅的个性，导演马克·沃特斯（Mark Waters）特意把企鹅的数量从14只削减到一半多，也就是六只，每个企鹅还都有自己的名字。其中包括：臭臭（Stinky）、爱咬人（Bitey）、吵吵（Louty）、小可爱（Lovey）、老木（rod）和船长（captain）。后来他们还有了宝宝，孵出了两只很可爱的小企鹅。
人都说最怕和动物、小孩演戏，本片就是个例子，虽然企鹅很可爱，但他们并不聪明，训练他们耗费了剧组很多精力，不过最终这群小东西和演员合作得还是很出色，而且非常喜欢跟着金·凯瑞。

【音频文本】

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a movie for kids, and happy kids at that. Families will have fun watching this movie, but divorced parents might have to walk away in order to avoid some unhealthy tugging of the heartstrings. Yet, I expect very few adults to be able to enjoy the film, despite lead actor Jim Carrey's desperate attempts to make it funny.

Mr. Popper, played by Jim Carrey, is an ambitious and sly real estate agent. Having spent his childhood being neglected by his adventurous father, he grows up to be a workaholic and in turn neglects his own children. However, his temperament changes drastically when his late father leaves him a rather unexpected gift: six adorable Gentoo penguins, which help Popper win back the hearts of his children and his ex-wife, andalso secure a lucrative business deal.

The plot is quite predictable. After the first ten minutes, any adult who keeps their brain in shape will be able know what's going to happen over the next 80 minutes. All you'll see is the six penguins taking turns to squeal, bite, stumble into something, cut cheese and poop on the floor; things that are mildly funny, and better if not repeated. But unfortunately, it seems the director has bet too much on the innate cuteness of these penguins, and people's tolerance of penguin excrement.

These are real Gentoo Penguins you see in the movie, and for the stunts that even these smart avians can'tperform, CGI birds are used, with the differences almost unnoticeable. These animation-enhanced penguins actually steal the thunder of the lead actor, who practically struggles to hold his own during the movie. Indeed, you can literally see Jim Carrey pushing himself over the edge trying to earn some laughter, but what he receives is probably no more than a lukewarm response.

Yet Mr. Carrey is not to blame. Despite a few wrinkles which are starting to show on his expressive face, he is still himself, but the lack of creativity in the script doesn't allow him much room to bring out hisbest.

One small point worth mentioning is the 'it-goes with-saying attitude' that the movie takes towards divorce. At the beginning of the movie, no extra effort is made to stress that Mr. Popper is a divorced father. This somehow reflects the reality that in the US divorce has become quite commonplace.

An in regards to divorce, as mentioned above, divorced parents might have to think twice before taking their children to watch this film. In reality divorced couples don't get back together as easily as the couple in this comic movie; so parents might be wary to remind their children of unhappy memories or put difficult questions in their minds.

Mr. Popper's Penguins is a film for happy families. It's comical almost to the point of frivolity, and theadorable penguins are the only appealing thing in the whole movies. At the end of the day, the penguins deserve a SIX.

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