Movie Review: Happy Feet

A freezin' tippity, tappity movie, which happens to be one of the first movies I fell in love with, Happy Feet is a 3-D animated award winning (two awards actually) movie about (my favourite animals) penguins! But one problem about the movie: It may cause uncontrollable toe-tapping! It starts with the main character: Mumble; a penguin who can't sing, and lives his life with a toe-tapping problem. But wait! Theres more, Gloria; a female penguin, who is just about the best singer in Emperor Land, and also steals Mumble's heart, Memphis; Mumble's worried father, Norma Jean; Memphis's mate, who also has one of the best singing voices, The 5 Amigos (Ramón, Nestor, Raul, Rinaldo and Lombardo);5 Spanish Adelie Penguins who become Mumble's best friends, and help him out on his adventure and Lovelace; A wisdom penguin who be-friends Mumble.

Set deep inside the icy land of Antarctica, two emperor penguins have a baby named Mumble. Hatched upon his feet, he has an amazing skill for tap-dancing. However, penguins are not supposed to tap dance. Even worse, he cannot sing. All emperor penguins are supposed to have a heart song, and he has a try at it - with awful results. Torn apart from his mom, dad, and best friend, Gloria, as a teenager who still has his adolescent feathers, his ventures off into the icy landscape. He is rescued from a leopard seal from a group of Adelie penguins, whom which the leader is Ramon. They take Mumble to their home and discover that all of their fish is being taken from an unknown 'alien' source. They ask Lovelace, a wise and cocky leader of the Adelies, to help them. Unfortunately, he proves no help. Leading on an incredible adventure, they try to discover the threat of their food source and survival. Using courage and bravery, Mumble begins to teach everyone begins to learn that uniqueness isn't a burden, but is a gift to be treasured.

The animation is very realistic which, though at the end, has real life action over the animation! The ice and water is probably the most realistic animation of the movie, and the penguins are realistic, but yet do have their cartoony instincts with their faces, expressions, movements etc. On its opening day, an unimaginable amount reached them with $41.6 million! The magnificent gross venue for the ending day was $384,335,608! And im not suprized! Ha!

I have always loved this movie, and it was actually the movie that started my whole career (YouTube, Blogging, Animation, Club Penguin etc)! I know everyone that see's it will love it! Its a movie i'll never forget. The sequel is coming out 19/11/11. :D

★★★★★ (It is 4 1/2 but I cant do that. Sorry!)

~A08~