Movie Review - Happy Feet

My husband said it best after the movie:-
"I didn't know the saviour of the world was blue eyed and white faced."

If you watched it through your innocent child-eyes, then the story is this:-
Mumble the Penguin was born different, dancing, instead of singing.This is because his father Everybody gave him a hard time about it, until he used his dancing feet to save his world from a famine. Encouraged by his gang of Latino friends, and now-on, now-off girlfriend Gloria, Mumble is a ugly penguin that turned into a hero. As Ramon, Mumble's Latino friend says, "This guy is so accidentally cool."

If you are a slightly older child, you will also receive the following messages
1) Authority is bad. The man wants to keep you down, and he is an ignorant fool.
2) It is ok to be different, as long as you are cool different.
3) If you too different, you can always move to another country where people will think you are cool.
4) Pollution is killing all the penguins and we are are catching too much fish, and it's ALL YOUR FAULT!!

I hope everyone who went watched it through the eyes of an innocent child, because I did not like the socio-political commentary. But the music and the dancing was waay fun. Most of the heartsongs were old school retro classics like Boogie Wonderland, which has all the 70s children in the cinema grooving. There was this little girl who got up and danced in the aisle and she got her fair share of applause too.

Overall, Happy Feet is a good, well-made animated movie. The VOs by Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Robin Williams were awesome. And some of the avalanche animation was breath taking. Anyone who has played Tux Racer will enjoy the action sequences in the movie. And the characters were well developed and totally had our sympathy. Script-wise, it had its weak moments, but Ramon and his friends totally stole the dialogue with their swaggering machismo and easy camaraderie.