Good to look at

Rating: 3/10 (20 November 2006)

This is a very visually impressive movie. I saw it on the Imax and really thought the visuals were well done.
Now going into the movie, I knew nothing about it other than that It was about Penquins and there was some dancing. That's it. After the first 5 minutes I was just totally unimpressed. While the movie is visually great, the story is what really suffers. It seems like the movie was really rushed out because of the current popularity of penguins.
The story itself is unconventional, not necessarily in a bad way, but in a uninteresting way. The whole "heart song" aspect was particularly difficult for me to swallow. It made the movie seems like a large itunes commercial. The story's flow was also very inconsistent. They started at with one theme and tried to add too many others thus making everything underdeveloped. If you asked me 15 minutes in what the movie was about and 15 minutes before the movie ended, I would have had 2 totally different answers for you. The movie had a message to it, but it seemed like an after thought.
All in all the movie was visually cute. If you go to see dancing penguins you won't be disappointed. However the movie itself is very predicable and trying to do too many things to actually make it a good movie.