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Farce of the Penguins Consider this to be a
warning. If you
know Bob Saget as that
nice guy from Full House and 1 vs. 100, and think this is yet another
cute
penguin movie your kids will enjoy, run out of the video store as
quickly as
possible. The
amount of filth in this
movie may set your eyes and ears on fire.
If you know Bob Saget from
The Aristocrats, run out of the video store as quickly as possible,
because
Farce of the Penguins is just as filthy as you might think, but not as
funny as
you might hope. The
movie is more like
Happy Feet produced and edited by a group of junior high school boys
who happen
to have a Mac outfitted with Final Cut Pro. Saget, who also wrote and
directed the movie, provides the voice of Carl – a penguin
longing for true
love as the males make their way across Antarctica to the penguin
breeding
grounds. His best
buddy, Jimmy (Lewis
Black), listens to Carl’s whining all the way back, but
decides he will help,
even at his own detriment. Once
there,
Carl and Jimmy meet up with some ladies, and the courting begins. Will Carl find the penguin
love of his life? Farce of the Penguins is a
parody of the wildly popular March of the Penguins, complete with a narration
from Samuel L. Jackson, but it’s not very funny. Saget practically drops the story for most of
the middle portion of the movie as he becomes obsessed with potty humor, dirty
talk about sex and more potty humor as the penguins wander around in the snow
with no direction home (just like Farce of the Penguins). Eventually, getting through the movie without
hitting eject on the DVD player is a true challenge fraught with more peril
than that faced by the marching penguins.
When he gets away from the dirty stuff to make some jokes about global
warming, a Happy Feet parody character and the Woody Allen-esque love story, Farce of the Penguins can be funny, but Saget is too busy trying to recall
every joke he told as a 13-year old boy to develop any of it. The film has a great cast,
including a semi-reunion of Full House cast members, but I have to wonder if
everyone involved got to read the script ahead of time. At least, it is still better than Epic
Movie. ½ Waffle (Out Of 4) Copyright 2007 - WaffleMovies.com
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