Farce of the Penguins (2007)

Very well executed

To me, this movie is perfection.

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I'm watching this on Showtime, and really sorry I got a chance to catch up on it -- even though my memories of "March of the Penguins," of which this is of course a parody, are lost in the snows of yesteryear.Bob Saget and his friends crack wise over a nicely-edited batch of (mostly) penguin footage. Those not used to Saget's raunchier side ("adolescent, scatological bathroom humor," as one character puts it)may be taken aback here, but I'm laughing all the way through.Maybe the other guy saw a different print than the one Showtime's showing, but the sound here is just fine.If more people had seen the picture, it might have put an end to anthropomorphizing animals on the screen...oh, probably not. But I recommend "Farce of the Penguins" highly to those who won't be offended by the language.

I love Bob Saget, and many of the other comedians that starred in this thing. But I can't for the life of me understand why any of them agreed to do it. I've seen Saget's standup, and I think he's very talented. But it does NOT translate well to a movie. When the dialogue wasn't raunchy, it was incredibly trite, which offended me even more than the lewd humor. For starters, Samuel L. Jackson belongs in something either a) intelligent or b) badass. This film was neither. And furthermore, I've actually lost some respect for Lewis Black due to his involvement in "Farce." What a stupid title, too. Way too obvious.And why would you make fun of "March of the Penguins?" It's completely uncontroversial and didn't make a big enough splash in pop culture to be a worthy target of parody, so I guess they figured they had no choice but to make the penguins use the F-word. Of course, the crappy paste-up job with the footage didn't help this film, either. I'm not easily offended by off-color humor, but I am offended by respectable comedians reading VERY un-funny dialogue. What a shame.

I must admit, I had high hopes for this movie. I saw that Bob Saget was directing, and thought I was in for some ridiculous, dirty humor. However, this was not the case. Bob Saget played the sensitive, boring penguin and was quite disappointing. Besides this let down, the movie was just not funny. The low production quality didn't bother me, I just didn't find much of it to be funny. In the whole hour and ten minutes, there were probably 2 or 3 funny parts, most of them involving cameos. The only thing that saved me from giving this one star was the narration by Samuel L. Jackson, which was great at times. Don't waste your time or money on this boring movie.

There is this notion out there that Bob Saget is actually a funny guy when not playing a TV dad or hawking home video footage. It's not true. Yeah, okay, it's a bit of a kick to imagine the dad from Full House doing blue humor, but beyond that, he has no comic instinct. The gags in this sad apology for a film are adolescent in the worst way. I can only assume that all the names involved in this disaster owe Saget something, or he has some dirt on them, because they can't possibly be serious about this one. It's a one-gag movie and a poor send-up of a film that was overly precious in the first place. The most farcical thing about this film is the fact that it was ever made in the first place.