Penguins are done

Rating: 3/10 (13 February 2007)

I'm sure it would have been o.k. a couple years ago, but it turns out that most people have a penguin limit and most of us reached it before this movie came out. Bad luck, but there it is - any normal person (if normal people have seen at least two other penguin related movies in the last year) will take about 15 minutes of this - what with the singing and bathetic attempts at emotional involvement - before they have to turn it off or decapitate themselves just to make it stop. Whoever decided that penguins were easy enough to anthropomorphisize that we could just start telling whichever stories occurred to us using penguins in lieu of people was sadly mistaken. There was a similar run on dolphin stories when I was a kid, one with whales a few years later, and one that ended very poorly involving dinosaurs not long ago. It's over, pack up the smelt and go home.