 | Studios: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release: | November 17, 2006 | |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure, Kids/Family, Musical/Performing Arts and Animation | |
| MPAA Rating: | PG for some mild peril and rude humor. |
This is a musical animated movie, with songs mostly from or inspired by the disco era. The story starts with a community of emperor penguins, who place a big importance on song and singing. Unfortunately for Mumble, who had a little mishap while he was still in his egg, he couldn't really carry a tune. He still likes music though, and expresses his feeling through dance. That's why the title is "Happy Feet". As a young penguin, the others tolerated him. As he grew up however, his being different caused some troubles and it came to a point where he had to leave the community. Outside of his community he comes across the Amigos - a band of penguins who belong to the Adelie group, AND who like to dance.
The Amigos thinks Mumble is accidentally cool and he finds acceptance among the Adelies, who by the way has also harbored the odd Rockhopper penguin, Lovelace, who has styled himself a guru of the dubious kind.Mumble learns to accept and be proud of who he is, and after a series of adventures, is reunited with his flock and gets Gloria - his childhood friend who now becomes his sweetheart.
This movie, apart from being entertaining has a lot of lessons to impart.
The most obvious lesson is that you may think you're very different, but if you actually expand your horizons, you'll find that there are others like you who may even find you cool in their circle.
Another lesson is the effect of man's steady and persistent encroachment on the area supposedly reserved for wildlife. This has slowly ensured that said wildlife remain on the endangered list, if they don't make the jump to extinction.
On the side, we learn little bits and pieces about emperor penguins ... like the male penguins are the ones who incubate the eggs.
Robin Williams plays more than one role here and is as funny as ever - his performance in this movie is a bit subdued compared to the one in Robot City, but it fits well with the penguin characters he plays anyway.
