Slipping on the icy terrain of parody "Farce of the Penguins" slips and falls more than it waddles (and when it does waddle it waddles badly). Using stock footage to assemble his parody of "March of the Penguins", Bob Saget fumbles an attempt to spoof the popular National Geographic-like documentary in this rude, crude comedy. Featuring the voice talent of Samuel L. Jackson, Jaime Kennedy, Jason Alexander, Tracy Morgan, Norm McDonald, Whoopi Goldberg and Saget himself can't possibly save this disastrous comedy. --

Image & Sound:

"Farce" looks pretty decent considering that it is assembled from a variety of stock footage of Penguins walking and standing on the ice. Colors are.icy to say the least and while the images are, for the most part, as crisp as a cold winter day, there is occasional problems with grain present. The audio sounds fine but since this is dialogue driven there isn't much opportunity to use the 5.1 mix to optimal effect. ---

We get an audio commentary by Saget to start with. While Saget addresses the why about this film he doesn't address the important question about what he was thinking when he put together this disaster. OK, he does address that but not the lack of inspiration and the lame attempts at comedy. "To the Earth's Ice Hold and Back" is a 15 minute interview with Saget discussing the making of the film. More than a little tongue-in-cheek, the featurette actually manages to be funnier and wittier than the film itself. We also get bonus footage consisting of deleted scenes. We also get a "behind-the-scenes" featurette showing the recording of the dialogue. ---

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