Working title was probably Depressing Public Service Announcement

Rating: 1/10 (4 January 2007)

I took my 7 year old to see this film. The seal sequence scared her with its violence and ferocious attack on the penguin. The movie wasn't funny, it wasn't happy, and just the opposite it was pretty depressing. I didn't like the sexual references that all the penguins kept making. I found the representation of the Hispanic penguins to be offensive (they all spoke like a cross between a bad Ricky Ricardo impersonator and working men on a job site with references to women). It was long and boring. My daughter didn't get where the movie was going, she didn't laugh at all throughout the movie and covered her eyes in several parts because it scared her. Then it goes into this long drawn out public service announcement about how the "aliens" are evil and gobbling up everything. Then the whole UN story, my daughter didn't understand any of that. She didn't understand the parts where the penguin in the zoo goes crazy either. Totally lost. I think the reason they called it happy feet was to mislead people into thinking it was a happy go lucky kids movie. As I remember, the only trailer I ever saw for it was the 5 penguins singing "My Way"... Don't waste your money or your time. If you want to teach your kids about conservation then sit down with them and teach them...don't think this movie is going to trigger anything in them! Hollywood needs to go back to making REAL kids movies. If parents won't take their kids to a movie for the sole sake of spending time with their kids then parents are to blame...Hollywood should not be trying to put adult situations into kids movies to get more adults to take their kids to the movies and sell more tickets.