The consensus reads "Blandly inoffensive and thoroughly predictable, Mr. Popper's Penguins could have been worse - but it should have been better."
With Bernard Sofronski (Ms. Dey's husband) as executive producer, the film pushes most of the right and thoroughly predictable buttons.
As a result, "And Baby Makes Two" is unoriginal, thoroughly predictable and painfully slow.
Checkmate adds an element of crime and adventure to that atmosphere, but the countless coincidences throughout the plot guarantee a thoroughly predictable happy ending, complete with a double wedding.
Given the explosion in executive pay, it was thoroughly predictable that Congress would jump into the fray.
The questions from the spectators were thoroughly predictable.
Zack Handlen, writing for The A.V. Club, described the episode as "thoroughly predictable".
Time Out Film Guide calls Invisible Stripes "A thoroughly predictable tale of the tribulations of an ex-con."
Fortunately, it avoids condescending to its small-town heroes and so is congenial if thoroughly predictable.
Its consensus states that "Oliver & Company is a decidedly lesser effort in the Disney canon, with lackluster songs, stiff animation, and a thoroughly predictable plot."