Happy Feet, or: Why The **** Did I See This?

[Lemmy]

Directed by George Miller

Warning: Spoilers, even though you probably don't care at all.


Let me start this review off with two things.

1) This film beat Casino Royale at the box office.
2) How I ended up seeing this: My friend and I kept joking about seeing it and the day we planned to see Casino Royale, he bought tickets to this instead (we still saw Casino Royale afterwards).


Now, for the review.

This film both made me feel like a six-year-old and made me analyze the plot of a film about dancing penguins. Technically, there is no real plot, just a bunch of subplots mashed together.

For some reason, the Emperor penguins mate by singing to eachother. However, after tumbling within his egg, this penguin named Mumble realizes that he cannot sing, but he can tapdance.

I can see you moving for that back button.

So anyway, he's an outcast and then he meets these penguins that speak like Mexicans and they take his to a leader who wears a plastic 6-pack thingy around his neck. So then they go back to Mumble's old home and then they go back and forth and then he goes searching for why there's a fish famine and ends up in a zoo and tapdances and is released back to Antarctica and dances some more and the humans, instead of being amazed that penguins can sing and dance, jam along.

There's a lot more than that, but it's not really special.

So this is supposed to be some feel-good movie with the message that being different is okay.

Now, as far as plot goes, this is the absolute most ****ing ridiculous thing ever.

The voices were amazing and the animation was okay. As the poster and the cast list on the IMDb shows, pretty much every living (and one deceased) actor was in this film.

I don't have that much else to say, other than if you really want to see this, you might as well be admitted to a mental institution.

I can't even give it a grade because it was just so bizzare, but for now...

THREE out of TEN.


Note: The film was dedicated to many people, including Steve Irwin, who is the aforementioned deceased actor who played a seal. I would have recognized his voice, had the other seals not had nearly the exact same tone and accent.

[Transformer Guy]

I didn't need another person convincing me not to see it, but thanks anyway. Nice review.

[Yoshimaster]

A friend of mine really wanted to see this badly, so we went opening night. It was sold out so we saw Casino Royale instead (which wasn't sold out, oddly enough).

The trailer didn't appeal to me much, but I still get the feeling that this score of 3/10 is exaggerated...

[Dr. Wily]

I'm the only one I know who really wanted to see this. Robin Williams seemed awesome in the trailer. I'm still gonna try to catch it in the dollar theater near my parent's house if I can.

[Captain Chicken Soup]

I think if you had seen the movie not as a joke you might have gotton more out of it.
I want to see it too.

[Klobber]

I just know someone in my family is going to get the Happy Feet Wii game for me for Christmas :P