The Penguin Lessons review – Steve Coogan seabird comedy drama tries to sell feelgood mood

Peter Bradshaw - TheGuardian - 16/04
Coogan does his best, but there’s a tonal mismatch here: the animal-teaches-lonely-human narrative jars with a depiction of lives in totalitarian Argentina

Here is a well-meaning, awkward tonal jumble of a movie, based on the bestselling memoir by former teacher Tom Michell; it is a quirky true-story heart warmer, in which an adorable penguin is apparently supposed to redeem not merely the human her...
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