Horrible - STEER CLEAR of this stinker!

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2006)

I guess I went into this with blinders on. My 3 year old daughter had seen this on TV and constantly talked about it. So my wife and I took her without giving a quick review of what people on IMDb were saying. BIG MISTAKE.
This movie has nothing going on for it except some nice CG and music but that runs out quickly. Some of the biggest issues are penguins and Antartica just don't make for an interesting setup as long as this. Do you know why mumbles didn't lose his down? Because he would look like every other penguin, so they had to make him unique, bravo team. All the characters are the same except for voices (well, I have to give them credit, females are denoted by colouring on their bosom) and one ice berg looks like the next...AGH! Some producer should have shot this one down from the get go; who thought this would work. Robin Williams and his Latin friends were the only good part and that lasted for 5 minutes.
The story and characters are really weak and you don't really care about anyone. I was bored to tears, as was my wife and daughter. My daughter said she wanted to go home and so we left just as mumbles was leaving to save the world from the 'aliens'. Thank the heavens I was spared the political angle and the outrageous trip mumbles takes later, I probably would have puked.
STEER CLEAR!