WEBmikey: Happy Feet : 3 of 5

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Happy Feet : 3 of 5
12.01.2006 9:57 PM \| Link	I'm always glad to go to the theater to support any animated feature film, and Happy Feet was a fun movie to see, and quite interesting for many reasons. I was a huge fan of the trailer, because seeing penguins sing is just inherently funny, so I was thrilled when the movie began with tons of penguins hanging around and singing. The opening act has so many pop songs intertwined (with excellent arrangements, by the way), that I was instantly reminded of Moulin Rouge, and at first I though this would be the whole movie - one long musical. The plot is that Emperor Penguins are born to sing, but poor Mumble is born to dance, so he becomes an outcast who can't get a girlfriend and so on. That would have been enough for me, but instead, Happy Feet transforms into an entirely different movie in the middle, where Mumble tries to discover why "aliens" (humans) are stealing their fish, and even ends up trapped in a Sea World kind of exhibit, which is depicted kind of like an asylum! The tone change is really kind of jarring, and then resolved far too quickly with a montage. However, these scenes are pretty innovative, since they use live-action humans along with the CG penguins, which was a surprise! The musical first half of Happy Feet definitely gets a 5 rating, but the too serious second half gets a 2, so the whole film gets a 3 from WEBmikey. I still recommend seeing it for a fun movie time! Labels: movies


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