Cute but a little awkward.

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2006)

From the beginning this movie was a typical children's musical cartoon. The "ugly duckling" (in this case penguin) tries to find his place and get the attention of his love without compromising who he is.
There is a specific point within the movie, however, where everything changes and the film becomes a dark telling of man's injustices to nature.
After the film, very audibly, switches its gears the rest of the movie focuses on the little penguin trying to reach out to the humans and make them see the error of their ways to save his species.
While I do believe that man is enacting many injustices upon the earth and the creatures that inhabit it, and I also believe that children need to be taught the message that this movie is trying to teach, the abrupt transition from a fairly care-free children's movie to a "save the environment" speech made the rest of the movie awkward.
I did enjoy the adult humor though.