Happy Feet Review

“Felt like a big kid being preached to”

 It’s a movie about dancing animated penguins.  What’s not to like? Can I say frankly, what is it with these damn penguins nowadays?  How many movies are about penguins these days?  I mean sure they’re cute, but so aren’t beavers.  Why aren’t there movies about beavers? Anywho, back to dancing and singing animated penguins.  It’s fodder for kids.  The key in animated movies these days is to entertain the kids while not boring the adults.  Sometimes they take it too far.

Let’s keep something in perspective here, if we’re not already there.  This is a movie about dancing and singing penguins, voiced with hillarity and charm by Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman to name a few.  That sentiment alone, makes it ok for me to check it out.  I don’t need an underlying message to the whole movie if it really doesn’t fit.  If it does fit, then super.  In this case, the movie tried to say a whole lot about relationships, fitting in or not fitting in, friendship, acceptance and eventually….pollution.

 That’s right.  Theres this whole build up with the main character and how will he get friends and gain acceptance, which is really leading towards a nice message with the audience.  It then goes into garbage about garbage.  Stick with one theme.  I consider myself a partial adult, and I was annoyed at it’s attempt.  I was happy watching penguins belt Queen and harmonize “In My Room”.  I liked seeing the penguin dance.  I knew the movie was ascinine but hey, where else can I see birds dance and not feel like a complete moron for wanting to? The movies!

All in all, the animation is almost life-like.  The voice acting ranges from really good(Robin Williams and Elijah Wood) to meh (Hugh Jackman).  The visuals of the movie were truely spectacular and overall the movie gave me a good chuckle, if not for the stupid last 30 minutes.  Lovelace is hysterical.  The makers really had a nice little film on their hands, that ended up going into waters that you should’ve remained uncharted for this particular movie.  See it if you want to giggle and such.  I give this a 6 out of 10 Bones for charm and cuteness but loses some for really preaching.

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