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Brittany Murphy, Carlos Alazraqui, Elijah Wood, Elizabeth Daily, Fat Joe, Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Khamani Griffin, Magda Szubanski, Nicole Kidman, Robin Williams, Steve Irwin
"Happy Feet" is set deep in Antarctica. Into the land of Emperor Penguins, where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate, a penguin is born who cannot sing. Our hero Mumble, son of Memphis an...( read more
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The movie is a hilarious & heartfelt feast for the eyes. Delightfully entertaining and provides a great message: be yourself, no matter how different you are.
The animation is great and really clever etc, it?s just the story that lets it down. Penguin cuteness lasts minutes and the laughs last seconds. That leaves and hour and a half of quite dull viewing unless you like watching penguins fall down mountains and sing crap songs. Kids s...( read more)
When I first heard of this project I thought the creators must have gone mad. Dancing, singing penguins? God beware. I still felt like that once it came out, but now, on TV, I gave it a chance anyway. The first minutes proved my initial reaction to be right. The idea of musical m...( read more)
Mumble is a penguin whose father Memphis drops him as an egg and when he pops out he sings like I do. But the kid sure can dance- that's the problem. He gets tossed from his community and sets out to find the "aliens" that are ruining the ecosystem. Yes, the "aliens" are you and ...( read more)
From the advertising, it looked to me like it was going to be a visual ipecac of cutesyness.
It did have it's moments.
The first 20mins or so, introducing the concept of a penguin's heart-song, was particularly noteworthy, though it wasn't so bad as to require any FDA warning...( read more)
The smaller penguins were hilarious! They added to the movie which would have gone boring.
