Pets The adaptation of the children's book turned out to be what it was intended to be - a good family comedy, an entertaining excuse to spend a joint evening, like a board game. With the same analogy, it shows everyone the long-known rules and mandatory morality, raises again the emphasis on regularly used family values, but still works perfectly, performing its function, to warm and bring together, to help parents understand their children, and thereby gives an opportunity for an hour and a half to have fun in the family circle.
The warm and family atmosphere of the picture, although it slides in most episodes to the children's film, has interesting moments for adults due to its romantic line, and in addition to child-parent relationships, it also vividly tries to play the theme of an incomplete family and divorced parents. Penguins, around which the action allegedly unfolds, are just an excuse, not a goal, and it is not uncommon for them to fade into the background if they do not dance and do other tricks.
Funny birds are perfectly made graphically and look like real living creatures in CGI animation. All the theatrical show rooms, scrolled by an impressionable spectacle as the action progresses, are really pleasing and quite fun, but it all looks more simply funny than really funny. A light comedy successfully plays on the feelings, but bouts of laughter and subsequent quoting of the most successful jokes can not cause.
The fuss around penguins turned out to be more of an interesting adventure than a humorous sketch full of jokes. However, the film has not lost its charm. Jim Carrey has been a perfect annealer for a year, without losing his grip, although he is not as young as in the heyday of his career. Here he, however, in his signature twists for some reason presents Edward Nygma, rather than something common or separate from his movie images, however, to those viewers for whom he is “the same everywhere” this will not be noticeable, and whether the repetition of images and visual quoting of traits, if presented on the screen Mr. Popper turned out to be very bright and funny.
As a child, Popper, nicknamed “Chipochkin”, regularly communicates with his traveler father with the call sign “White Eagle” through a receiver, and although the father has almost no time for family, he never forgets about his son, sending him an extremely exclusive gift in the end. Orlan, Tsypochkin... do you know what kind of birds this leads to? Right! There are penguins in the package. First one, and then five more due to a misunderstanding with the sender. Six cute flightless birds who love cold, fish and prefer to watch... movies with Charlie Chaplin - this is at least an occasion to watch this film.
In addition to Carrie, there are many other interesting characters in the film. And, perhaps, despite the fact that in the casting there is the famous Carla Guginio and the bright talented star Madeleine Carroll, all this time surpassed Ophelia Lovibond in the role of the assistant of the main character – Peepy, who has a wild linguistic problem with the letter “P”, almost her entire vocabulary consists of words for this letter and she says like letter stories for children, where 90% of the words used begin with the chosen letter. Perhaps it was her dialogues with others and reactions to this feature that turned out to be an even more vivid feature of the film than dancing different-size penguins. And we must pay tribute to the director, the picture develops in such a perspective that it is no less interesting to observe people than animals.
Negative heroes are trying to convince Popper that penguins in the apartment do not belong, that all the conditions arranged by him for their pleasant life will not replace the enclosures of zoos and even more so the natural habitat. After all, penguins are not pets like cats or guinea pigs, but the main character goes to any lengths to prove the opposite to the world. The villains of the picture turned out to be more obsessive and purposeful than really negative. They also accompany the video series with all sorts of jokes, help the characters to play an even more touching drama and even revive the picture, where it is required, so that the drive and dynamics of the comedy do not sag on sentimental episodes.
Simple and very predictable comedy comes to life in new colors due to just a few rather original ideas, brilliantly embodied on the screen. Thus, Waters’ new work causes less secondaryity and helps to ignore individual shortcomings, thanks to a holistic, very funny and very kind story. The creators had a good family movie, with exotic and Jim Carrie, with funny numbers and high-quality animation, everything you need for a positive pastime in the family circle.
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