Director: Mark Waters
Writers: Sean Anders, John
Morris, Jared Stern, Richard Atwater (novel), Florence Atwater (novel)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla
Gugino, Angela Lansbury, Ophelia Lovibond, Madeline Carroll, Maxwell Perry
Cotton, Clark Gregg, David Krumholtz, Philip Baker Hall
Now, I like Jim Carrey as
much as the next guy, which mean considerably less than it used to, but what
about this cut and paste cutesy family movie appealed to him? Was it getting
the chance to tell Philip Baker Hall he is old in every scene he has with him?
Could it have been the challenge of having to sell the flimsiest obstacles the
screenwriters could come up with? I mean really. The Tavern On The Green went
under a couple of years back and its still a New York institution (although, no
longer a restaurant). Are we supposed to believe there is any businessman in
New York that thinks they could get away with plowing it over?
The penguins weren’t quite
as annoying as I expected. I can say that for it. And, despite the poor choice
in scripts, I still like Carrey. He puts his heart into it; you’ve got to give
him that. But, to put the weight of the Carrey steam train on top of such a
flimsy character as the cliché career man/absent dad who has no imagination and
can’t connect with his kids. C’mon! Are we really supposed to believe that
someone as sharp and witty as Carrey could be such a person? No matter how well
he plays it, it’s just not in his nature to be subdued.
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