Farce of the Penguins

2007 "What Happens In Antarctica... Stays in Antarctica"
4| 1h20m| R| en
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In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?

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SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Enchorde Recap: A mockumentary, or parody of the documentary March of the penguins, if you like. We follow two male penguins on their hike from the sea to their breedingplace, and their discussions about finding love.Comments: Not much to say really. It is kind of slow with all the penguin shots being at such a slow tempo, with crude documentary. Many of the jokes are crude and fart jokes are far too prominent. So on average this is quite a bad movie.However there are a few bright spots. Jokes that actually are quite funny. Jokes that almost but not quite manage to carry the movie. They did make the movie bearable though, kept me going to the next bright spot. But to be a good movie, or average, they are too few and too far between.One of the bright spots are the cast though. Don't know what made so many known actors and actresses contribute to a material like this, but I guess Bob Saget had something to do with it. It is a little of a Full house reunion, with friends.A good idea, which could have been done much better though. An extra plus for the DVD menus though, they were better than the movie and better than most other DVD-menus.4/10
ghchamp96 When my husband rented this movie, I told myself I was going to hate it. I mean...Farce of the Penguins?? You have got to be kidding me! I mean, look at the DVD cover! It's ridiculous! About 2 minutes into the movie, I found myself smiling on the couch. In 5 minutes, I was laughing out loud. This movie is absolutely hilarious! Samuel L. Jackson is perfect as the narrator. Now, I will admit, it is very, very crude almost the entire way through the movie. So, if you are easily embarrassed, don't watch this movie. I also would not recommend watching this movie with your grandmother in the room. Other than that, sit back, eat some popcorn, and enjoy!
disdressed12 i didn't like this movie at all.i think it's supposed to be a parody of March of the Penguins.but for me,it just wasn't funny.plus,i felt the humour consisted of mostly vulgar,crude language.there's a lot of the F-bomb(among other words) dropped here.this definitely isn't for kids.but i also just found it boring.i actually couldn't watch it all,because i found it too slow.as for the crude language,that doesn't always bother me,but i just found it gratuitous and too frequent.i don't think you always need to have swears to make things funny.it's not for every taste,that's for sure.if you don't mind a lot of very crude language,you might want to check this one out.for me,Farce of the Penguins is a 1/10
cyclone259 "If you're some bleeding heart liberal tree hugger or just a wimp this movie will be far too offensive for you." That's what one commenter wrote. I always thought it was the conservative element that were so opposed to bad language and sexual humor and that the liberal element in this country were the subversive types. I don't like getting into politics on the comment board, but from now on, it would nice not to pigeonhole a whole group of people based on your own ignorance. That's all I'm going to say...As far as the movie itself. I thought they did a good job with the commentary. After watching "The Aristocrats" it was good to see Bob Saget involved in something again with a lot of blue humor. This is the same Bob Saget you've seen on reruns of his popular family shows, but as anyone can attest who's seen him elsewhere, his common PAX-watching fans will find this film highly offensive."Farce of the Penguins" is a great parody of, you guessed it "March of the Penguins" but, you won't get a warm feeling from this movie unless you pee your pants laughing. I can't add anymore to other comments as to the storyline, but this movie was made on the cheap, but it is extremely funny, foul (or fowl) and is very 'tongue-in-cheek'. Watch it without the kids around, because this is not an episode of "America's Funniest Home Video's".