A Film from the Heart

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2007)

Whilst his film certainly didn't deserve the Oscar it won, it would be somehow wrong to give the film black looks. This is mainly because the film has a lovely color palette and the musical numbers certainly succeeded in melting my heart. Had this film concentrated on its music, I am sure it would have fared better. However, the film goes on to give a lecture on global warming and kindness towards penguins. And that is where Happy Feet looses track. The theme of an outcast becoming a hero has already been used in the much inferior "The Ant Bully", but it somehow steers slightly away from it only to find itself where "Finding Nemo" had already treaded. The voice cast is decent, and the mildly perilous sequences aren't shameful either. However, the film still lacks novelty value.
Verdict
This is a keen attempt to cash in on the buzz created by "March of the Penguins"  not my kind of fun.