Thanks, but no thanks.

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2007)

Clearly the CG techniques are still improving. The particle animation is very nice, textures are great, procedural whatever is great too.
Oh. Don't forget all the nice music. We all know the songs in this movie. Yes we do!
The whole problem is technique doesn't make a movie and well known songs don't make a movie. If the story isn't interesting the movie just isn't interesting.
Clearly we're well on the way to really realistic CG, but we're still on our way. There is a lot more to learn. In LOTR we've seen mass character animation (with a nice result) but mass penguin-scenes just aren't interesting.
And Afro-American penguins and Latino penguins. Come on. A Ramon penguin? Ramon. I think WARM, I think palm trees. I don't think Antarctica. It doesn't work. It just doesn't.
My conclusion: quite nice on one hand. A terrible failure on the other. The feeling of the failure remains. I'm sorry...
Actually... I'm not.
For CG: see Lord of the Rings. For dance: see Lord of the dance. Don't see this movie. It's a waste of your time.