Quality Sacrificed for Message

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2007)

Sadly, as a Christian, I see this all too often. It is nice however to see a "secular" film make the same mistake as the majority of "Christian Filmmakers." I'm talking about sacrificing quality to get a message across.
I said I'm a Christian. And yes, I am conservative. That being said, I've got nothing against preserving the Earth and its natural beauty. But when a movie is made with the express purpose of making humanity feel guilty about what we do to survive INSTEAD of trying to make a good movie, what's the point?
The story was weak and was made weaker still by the fact that the story itself took up only about 45 minutes of the film. The rest of the movie was made up of action scenes and music videos that had virtually nothing to do with the plot.
ON THE MUSIC VIDEOS...I felt that they tried to make an animated "Moulin Rouge" style musical starring Penguins and failed miserably. The song choices were pathetic. The only good choice was Queen's "Somebody To Love" and maybe the Stevie Wonder song. The rest of the songs were practically a Top Forty hodge-podge thrown into a blender and served with a side of cheese. It just didn't work.
In conclusion, the filmmakers made a crucial mistake when they decided that they were going to send a message. In getting that message across (which they most certainly did) they sacrificed the quality of what could have been a good movie. If they had simply made a good, solid, cute musical starring Penguins, it would have worked. But instead they decided that the MESSAGE WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN QUALITY. And that killed it.
PS Some of the animation was absolutely beautiful. I wish they'd taken more creative liberty with the character modeling though.