Carrey is
less ideal to do the warm - dad transition that Williams would have handled expertly, yet the script (which clankingly shifts gears from writing style to writing style) delivers its best stuff in these
scenes, not in such
frantic moments as when the penguins bust loose and slide down the helix of the Guggenheim during a fancy party.
But on a longer timeline,
less frantic and with fewer Bruce Willis
scenes than the mass appeal beast it set itself to dethrone.