Too Real & Too Scary

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2006)

I was so excited for a nice, happy, animated holiday movie. Happy Feet seemed to deliver at the beginning with amazingly real animation of dancing, singing, swimming, cute little penguins. The opera like musical numbers were very fun & energetic. The story of Mumble becoming an outcast and having to find his own way was engaging. But then the movie turned into Greenpeace propaganda and lost all sense of the animated fun I was having. The "March of The Penguins" style troubles Mumble gets into are much too real for children. The animation is almost too good at this point and it's down right scary. Although the movie turns back around at the end, I still can't imagine watching it again. Another disappointing movie for 2006.