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Great family movie. If your kids love a good story and music, then you'll all love this movie.
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"Happy Feet" is a children's movie centering around cute animals who can walk, talk, sing and dance. If one is upset by the notion of anthropomorphism, then one should avoid this movie at all costs, as well as all children's programming in general. (Bugs Bunny? A rabbit that poisons itself by eating carrots, walks upright and talks?! Big Bird?? A giant bird that sings and recites the alphabet?!! ARRRGGGHHH!!! Beatrix Potter, A. A. Milne, PBS, Warner Brothers, all must be destroyed!!!!)
Another point I've seen repeatedly brought up in reviews is that of source-less music and alien lyrics/tempo/rhythm/beat. Again, I beg you to stop and think. We take for granted that music will reach a crescendo at climactic moments in all movies, as well as the fact of music setting the mood for television and movies. Did Celine Dion's voice really stretch completely across the ocean when Titanic voyagers were dying? Of course not, but the moment was made more poignant by the addition of haunting music. Analyzing where such music comes from when no instruments are visible, or why Walt Disney introduced singing animals (who taught them how to talk, let alone how to sing?? and how do they know what they're saying??!!) is akin to driving one's head into a wall.
Most children's movies begin with a few basic assumptions, among which are: 1) suspension of disbelief is easy as long as characters are understandable, 2) music makes it fun. Given these premises, the music, singing, dancing and talking found in "Happy Feet" are perfect for the movie's intended audience: the young, and the young-at-heart.
As for the plot, a dropped egg survives to become an adorable emperor penguin chick named Mumble. Mumble enters the world with happy tap-dancing feet, is chided by his father and shunned by other chicks emulating the attitudes of adults around them. Growing tougher in the face of adversity, Mumble is ultimately banished from his home by the ignorance of the elders--rather than learning about differences, they fear them. Nothing new here except the updated way in which the story is told. Every generation must learn the same truths; this movie teaches its generation as "Dumbo" spoke to children in 1941 when first released.
Trying to prove that dancing doesn't causing the colony's drought, Mumble embarks on a quest, accompanied by his amiable, witty little friends, the amigos--a group of adelie penguins. Along the way, he picks up Lovelace, a rockhopper penguin who also narrates the tale. Mumble does eventually find the cause of the food shortage: overfishing. How to let the humans know what the cost of indifference is? And will Mumble ever see his family again?
Yes, there is an environmental message in this movie; it was made in Australia, what did you expect? However, this isn't some doomsday do-you-know-where-that-meat-came-from message, nor is it traumatizing like "Watership Down." Rather, it's told in the same tone that "Free Willy" or "Finding Nemo" was--matter of factly.
Coming from Chicago and San Francisco, I found the adelie penguins, with their enormous capacity for joy, latino cadences, and taste for dancing and togetherness spot on, and hilarious--like being in high school all over again. I also found the little touches, like mama penguins feeding their babies by regurgitating food into their throats, excellent as the characters are made more real. (Tweens especially love that part.) This is no different than a talking fish scrubbing himself in an anemone prior to swimming off to school.
As far as how to differentiate characters in a movie full of identical-looking penguins, the creators did a decent job. Mumble was dropped as an egg; that doesn't affect his beautiful blue eyes, but does account for the fact that as an adolescent-to-young-adult penguin, his baby fluff still hasn't been fully shed. The females have larger busts and something resembling hips as a way to differentiate them from the flock, just as the frightened, sanctimonious old fart who leads the colony is crooked with uneven feathers, looking as an aged penguin should look. Norma Jean, Mumble's mother, has a beauty mark on her breast to distinguish her. Memphis, Mumble's father, is larger than most of the penguins, and is purposely modeled on Elvis, (or rather, on Johnny Cash modeling himself after Elvis.) To be honest, I had a harder time keeping the puppies in 101 Dalmatians straight.
Taken overall, this movie is an enjoyable ride. My toddler and her older cousins could happily watch it daily if they were allowed, (all that dancing is *so much fun!*)
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So very boring, full of innuendo, absurd story, & soooo very long! And the sexuality! I mean, really, the pengiuns are getting it on! As to the music, how in the world could penguins learn these songs anyway?? Do they get MTV? Why not have them sing original songs? That could have been so much better. As to the environmental message, how could the Mumbles character help save his fellow penguins from aliens if he brings more aliens back to their homebase? As an "alien" myself, I can tell you where one goes, the rest will follow, good and bad. How could a director who can make such a fantastic variety of movies (Mad Max & Babe) make this turkey? The trailers & commercials for this movie were totally misleading. It doesn't just stick to the social misfit plot. I was shocked it got an oscar nod and worse, won over two vastly superior movies, Cars and Monster House. MH should have won!!!! I would have given this one a razzie, if they had an animated category. See Surf's Up.
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fabulus,extraordinary !excellent picture.if the audio was uncompressed it would be fantastic for the sound also!
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But the goofy "Everyone hug a tree for Mother Gaia" ending spoils this silly trip.
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