Happy Feet

MPAA Rating:PG
Distributor:Warner Bros.
Director:George Miller
Starring:Elijah Wood as Mumble, Robin Williams as Ramon and Lovelace, Brittany Murphy as Gloria, Hugh Jackman as Memphis and Nicole Kidman as Norma Jean.

In the frozen land of the emperor penguin, everybody has a heartsong-a personal song that shows your feelings, gives you identity and wins you a mate. But when Norma Jean and Memphis give birth to a cute, blue-eyed little guy called Mumble, they discover a big problem: Mumble can't sing.

Instead, the cute little fuzz-ball has "hippity-hoppity" dancing feet that the other folks find most troubling. What begins as a peculiar little habit, however, grows into a big problem when the elders of the community blame Mumble for this year's shortage of fish. Mumble determines to stay true to who he is and sets off to find out what could be happening to all the fish. Helping him along the way are a wisecracking gaggle of Adélie penguins called the Amigos who think Mumble's moves are "so accidentally cool."

Happy Feet shows a digital Antarctica that's both bone-chilling and beautiful. It also boogies down to a familiar theme: be true to yourself. The movie provides images of sacrificial love, friendship, courage and loyalty.

But kids and their parents may want to dance away from the defiant behavior, spiritualism, bodily function jokes and crude humor in this otherwise “happy” film.

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