'The Penguin Lessons' Review: Politics & Penguins Don't Mix
Steve Coogan stars in the true story of an English professor inspiring his students during Argentina's 1976 military coup with the help of a penguin.
It’s not hard to imagine plenty of moviegoers enjoying a comedy where wry English actor Steve Coogan plays a teacher who inspires a class of spoiled boarding school students with the help of his pet penguin. Nor is it hard to imagine moviegoers being riveted by a political drama about Argentina’s notorious Dirty War, during which a vicious military junta overthrew President Isabel Perón's government in 1976 and sent death squads to kill a reported 30,000 dissidents. However, it is hard to imagine moviegoers embracing, to any memorable degree, The Penguin Lessons, which attempts to gently combine those two things, but does so in a manner that is rarely smooth, which was probably inevitable considering these narrative extremes.
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