I was less than excited to hear the news a while back that Noah Baumbach was planning to write and adapt a movie version of Mr. Popper's Penguins, the classic children's book about a guy overwhelmed by an assortment of penguins. His Greenberg star Ben Stiller was set to join him, and the idea of the unpleasant duo behind the unpleasant Greenberg taking over one of my favorite children's books
