Happy Feet
2006 Directed by Warren Coleman, Judy Morris …
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WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping.
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
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Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.70
Ok, first off, penguins scare me. I'm convinced they are real world Mogwai, waiting to change into evil monsters. Nothing can be this cute without a catch.
So, my mother got this dvd for my kids as a Christmas present. I had already seen it and really didn't care much for it at all, due to aforementioned penguin related aversion and the fact that it was a bit bland and predictable.
The kids asked if they could watch it this morning as it is the first day of the Christmas holidays. So once again, while watching it, kids prove to be the most honest audience. At one point my daughter said: "Right, I'm…
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What a piece of crap. I was encouraged to watch this after the kids were taken with the Happy Feet 2 poster prominently displayed at the local cinema.
Firstly, I didn't know that the "thing" that Emporer Penguins do is sing, so the story that Mumble was ostracized from his tribe/flock/group (there is no official collective noun, also something I didn't know) because he can't sing made no sense.
Secondly, the filmmakers have tried to sex up the characters too much. Look, I know how baby animals are made, and there's a way in which to present that to little kids, but having overtly sexual birds singing Prince is not the way.
It made me feel a bit queasy but…
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'Ve are ze forcibly cute penguins und soon ve will rule ze world!'
Well, I'm impervious to penguin cuteness so shove off. And stop singing for crying out loud. It's embarrassing.
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A film so bad, even Music Magpie wouldn't take it off my hands.
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Really an adorable movie with a lot of excitement. Robin Williams proves that he was made for animation. There's a lot of great singing and dancing, and an interesting choice to use live action people.
This would make an incredible play.
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yeah yeah, us humans are evil blah blah
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It was enjoyable, the animation already looks clunky though.
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Perfect proof that the Animated Feature category at the Oscars is ridiculous (although looking at its competition, none of which I have seen, it doesn't appear to have robbed anything exactly).
There are some interesting ideas going on here, as you can tell Miller is trying to go for something. The sequence with the six-pack holder and the abandoned town is remarkable, managing to be entertaining and meaningful at the same time. Unfortunately, it comes in the middle of an obnoxious narrative about penguins singing second-rate pop music and racial humor bordering on the insulting (why cast Robin Williams here when any number of Latino comics could do the exact same thing without seeming like a blackface number?). There are some nice visuals, but the film itself is too lackluster to make them worth it.
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Weird one this, even without the strange live action sequences.
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I don't care for this movie because of all the environmental stuff that was thrown at the viewer. I understand it was a kid movie but I think it was a little lame how the humans were like "hey, dancing penguins! We never knew they were here! let us save them!". Please... I am not looking forward to watching the second one.
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I remember seeing this with a few other people. They loved it but I was pretty let down by it. I don't really care for "cute animals" and musically I was unimpressed.
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“Happy Feet” kann vor allem eins: gut aussehen. Das ist aber auch schon alles was “Happy Feet” zu einem tollen Film macht. Die Story kann nämlich nicht wirklich überzeugen. Selten habe ich mich so bei einem Animationsfilm gelangweilt, zumal man doch eher mit einem Gagfeuerwerk rechnet, als mit einem recht ernsten Film.
Über die gesamte Laufzeit hatte ich das Gefühl, dass die Devise hinter “Happy Feet” lautete “Lass uns einen Animationsfilm machen, die sind gerade so erfolgreich” und man sich weniger auf den Inhalt des Films und die Charaktere gekümmert hat, als vielmehr zu zeigen, was man technisch drauf hat. Um dem ganzen wenigsten eine gewisse Existenzberechtigung zu geben, hat man leichte Musical-Elemente in den Film mit einfließen lassen. Die…
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Ein wundervoller Film. Über die optische Schönheit und Detailtreue will ich gar nicht zu viele Worte verlieren. Ich habe so meine Probleme mit Animations- oder Zeichentrickfilmen, in denen viel gesungen wird. Hier hat mich das nicht gestört. Da war Begeisterung und Faszination ob dieser behutsamen erzählten Geschichte, die am Ende eine für dieses Genre untypische Wendung in eine sehr ernste Grundhaltung erfährt. Ich frage mich, ob dem Film das gut tut oder eher schadet. So oder so bleibt: Diesen Film muss man gesehen haben.
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"I love you...!!!!"
Great animation
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Really an adorable movie with a lot of excitement. Robin Williams proves that he was made for animation. There's a lot of great singing and dancing, and an interesting choice to use live action people.
This would make an incredible play.