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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.

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

It plugs ahead on the stamina and sheer nerve of its author-star.

You quickly start to realize that there's not much of a movie here.

If ... Wonderful World seem(s) a little tired, the film still has its own low-key pleasures, thanks to Broderick's restrained performance and a script that punctuates the inescapable saccharine of its storyline with tart little bursts of anger.

While this movie is earnest and well-intentioned, it doesn't quite work.

I can't easily remember a film I've enjoyed less.

All spunk and no spark make for a mediocre movie.

A charmless, witless, lumbering mess. Almost nothing could redeem this lame comedy.

There's remarkably little done with a premise snatched from high-concept heaven, adding yet another file to the growing cabinet of under-realized comedies.

Director Shadyac and his three scriptwriters prove much more fallibly flawed than their omnipotent hero.