The Emperor (Penguin) Has No Clothes

[rj_anderson]

For the sake of those unaccustomed with my peculiar sense of humor, I just thought I should mention that the previous entry complaining about my f-list's failings was meant as a joke. In no way do I regard the members of my esteemed f-list as minions. For one thing, that would be arrogant in the extreme; and for another, it would make the winged

Comments

[honorh]

I didn't care for Happy Feet, either. Felt like it was preachy and tedious.

Yep.

[anonymous]

Preachy: Check. Boring/Tedious: Check.

Although not exactly cerebral, Surf's Up was a fun animated Penguin movie.

Like, what's with the Penguin thing anyways? next year, Pixar, and Dreamworks, and everybody are going to decide that the Thing this year is Dinosaurs. And then, we'll have a glut of dino-movies.

Oooh ooh ooh! How about Pirates, Penguins, Sharks, and Dinosaurs, all in one movie! Yeeah! Green light me, Hollywood, 'cos uncle Warren's about to make a moooveee...

W

[durayan]

Happy Feet is a marvelous bore the toddler to sleep flick, with cute penguins. It works.

[thremma]

I didn't like it either; my husband did. I think he liked the music (which I thought was only middling to blech). I felt the whole time like, "is it done yet?" I like music fine - but I also like there to be a plot. This whole movie could have been condensed down to about twenty minutes.

[rj_anderson]

Yes, exactly.

[camillofan]

After I'd seen it (and I concede that it really was something to look at on the big screen!), I heard Happy Feet described by some reviewer or other as "a soda commercial in search of a product." Too funny, and too apt! While impressed by the technical achievement of the Savion Glover motion capture, I thought the movie lacked a heart, and I was disappointed when it won the Oscar.

For me (and you can just call me C.S. Lewis here, because he made the same complaint about Tom Sawyer), the fatal flaw was having the central character be a perpetual child on the one hand, and a would-be lover on the other. Like Will Ferrell's Elf: ick, ick, ick

I reviewed it last Fall here.