Let your feet take you to this movie!

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2006)

OK, so it's not Citizen Kane, but after suffering through this year's supposed cream of the crop, you won't go wrong here in the entertainment department, and isn't that what movies are REALLY supposed to be about? It's not always a film about dancing pengiuns (d'oh!) and it might be too sophisticated for a 4 yr old (chronological or developmental age) but the animation is superb, the screenplay well written, and the Latino penguins are the best team up since the Marx brothers! There are lots of comments on this board about a "liberal" agenda to this movie. Well, if you think global warming is nonsense, that we're not overfishing our seas, and that stupid human beings haven't tried to squelch anything new or different, then you're bound to be offended, but you're apt to be offended by real life, too!
I thought Noah's fulmugations on Mumble's dancing a particularly apt send-up to Elvis (Memphis, Mumble's dad) since it so poetically reflects the hellfire and brimstone thrown at the real Elvis and his followers by Christian Southern Baptists in the '60s.
Anyway, politics and messages aside, you'll not find a movie this season so uplifting, affirming, and entertaining as this. You'll be glad you did!