A really odd movie...that could've done better

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2008)

When I saw "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" on November 19, 2005, I remember seeing the trailer to "Happy Feet," one of the many trailers where people had been showing emotions. They gave that "aww" emotion where even one girl almost broke out in tears before the crowd got wild at the feature presentation (Goblet of Fire).
Somehow the trailer is better than the actual feature...
"Happy Feet" tells the story about a penguin name Mumble who doesn't stand out like other penguins in their waddles while all he does is give out little tap dances where everybody sees him as very different. It's just like watching the Rudolph Christmas special where once the reindeer shines his red nose, he's considered a freak of nature. Mumble still does the things like penguins, he even chases fish until realizing that they aren't enough for the other penguins to eat. The first part of the story works like an average story about a penguin searching for answers until the second half falls to pieces where our hero discovers that maybe "aliens" are taking the fish with no other way but to check it out and seeing that he's at a zoo where humans can't understand what he's saying.
Elijah Wood provides the voice of Mumble where he's a charmer even though this film is not. The rest of the cast includes an all-star cast from Brittany Murphy as his love interest, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman as his parents; Robin Williams provides too many voices from Spanish ethnic penguins to a fat preachy penguin where sometimes it's either really hard to tell what he's on or why he's trying hard to bring the Genie from Aladdin out of his shell.
This film won the Academy Award for best animated feature where either Cars or Monster House deserved the award.