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HAPPY FEET

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Release Date: November 17, 2006
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: George Miller
Starring: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, E.G. Daily, Miriam Margoyles, Magda Szubanski, Carlos Alazraqui, Johnny Sanchez III, Jeff Garcia, Lombardo Boyar
MPAA Rating: PG (for some mild peril and rude humor)


Plot Summary: In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you're nobody unless you can sing—which is unfortunate for Mumble (Elijah Wood), who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune... tap dancing. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman), thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), says it "just ain't penguin." Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love.As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria (Brittany Murphy), happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange "hippity- hoppity" ways. Mumble is just too different—especially for Noah the Elder (Hugo Weaving), the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins—the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon (Robin Williams), the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru (also voiced by Robin Williams), a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and the Amigos, Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and, after some epic encounters, proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world.

Comments?
 
Has anyone seen this movie yet? Saw it Thursday and found myself very entertained. I love musicals and it was a nice approach at one, the cgi looked really good, and had good voice acting. The ending was a bit..choppy but aside from that a good watch (and a very good soundtrack).
 
I saw it today. Some parts were kind of slow, but the ending was really great, and I haven't seen a good animated musical feature in a long time.
 
One of the more unusual animated films I have ever seen.
It took a while to figure out what I thougt it was.
..To me, It was three or four parts..attempting to do different things:
...1) Paying Homage to Afro-American Blues Music..(yes, a very good musical)
2) Paying Homage to Latino-American Jive Humor (Robin Williams is really funny..great to see him back after Aladen)
3 ) Tap Dancing, exceptionally well done dancing numbers
4) Standard journey, self discovery, expulsion from group, return to group, formula..toon

While any one of these would have worked fine,,all of them is a rough order..
I think it works fairly well and I was completely entertained. Yes, it was choppy, well put. I belive this is true because of all the things that this film attempted to do, and pull it together at the end..It does this fairly well.
The cgi is excellent. Some of the night shots, and dacing shots, are incredible, but that is what they can do with the midium. Yes, I would recommend it to all.. It moves slower than one might think, that was ok with me, might not work for younger audiences..If one likes musicals and dancing. a must see.............................. sun
 
I was talked into seeing it with my mom and cousins today, and I was really surprised. I expected this whimsical, fart humor, "modern commentary/hip hop dialogue" type of animal movie. But besides playing on popular American music and a few other things, that's not really what I got. And I'm glad :)

I really, really liked how they combined live action people with digital animation. There were many other things I liked as well. The only thing that really bugged me was how confused I got near the end. He tap danced, suddenly he's back home? Why? Wouldn't they be exploiting it or something? Was he still dreaming or hallucinating (which it what I wondered at first)? Anyway, it was a good movie, I think.
 
I have to give the movie credit, it was a lot funnier than the commercials would lead you to believe. I thought it'd be mostly singing and dancing, but there's an actual plot to it.

Those action scenes were kinda cool, with the penguins sliding and being chased by the sea lion and then the killer whales.



That was weird. I almost thought they were going to end it with Mumble trapped in that zoo when they zoomed out into space. I guess they figured that the penguin has a way of communicating they wanted to study, and the only way to do that was to put him back in his natural habitat and look at the whole group. I kind of don't understand where he was, was that Florida? And he was originally from Antarctica or something like that and then he met penguins from Peru or Chile or wherever they were supposed to be from and then swam up north...maybe?
 
I thought they were going to end the movie with the sad ending of him being in a zoo for the rest of his life dancing his life away.
 
That is what I would have done. Even so, the ending was actually pretty good.

Everyone should go see this if they get a chance it is really entertaining.
 
I saw it on opening night because I wanted to see the Harry Potter trailer and I've got to say that I really loved it. I was happy after seeing the OotP trailer so was ready to be underwhelmed by the movie but was really surprised by how good it was. It was funny, smart, engaging, and overall just really good.
 
The trailer barely scratched the surface of what actually happens in the movie. I wasn't expecting a fairly deep plot and characters to relate to and love from just the thirty seconds of dancing penguins that I had seen.
 
I saw the movie on opening night, my father came with me, and I really enjoyed the movie. I enjoyed the "dark" parts and the singing/dancing.
The live action aspect of the movie suprised me, however, I thought it was a great addition to an otherwise regular cartoon musical.
Overall, it was a great movie, worthy of an Oscar.
 
This movie kicks so much ass.

First off, it's a CGI musical which I'm pretty sure hasn't ever been done before in a feature.

Second, some of those fast-paced sequences are insane! I mean, that whole race down the hill...I can't even imagine how to approach a scene like that.

Third, it's pretty interesting that they inserted live-action humans. Instead of trying to make realistic CGI humans and not coming anywhere close to the quality or animation of the penguins, they just decide to use real humans. Hey, the penguins look real enough to pull this off well.

Finally, Robin Williams does TWO ethnic voices.
 
I really enjoyed it. Robin Williams did a good job and the plot was pretty deep. It was funny and it was a lot better than I expected it to be. I might even say it was better than Cars. The live-action came unexpected, but I didn't mind it. The ending was a little weird though. The ending was a little bad, because if it ended earlier it would've been really surprising.
 
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