Not what it could have been.

Rating: 5/10 (10 November 2006)

Happy Feet was first described to me as a combination of March of the Penguins and Moulin Rouge. I have to agree, but not in the way he intended. It doesn't combine the creativity of those 2 films, it copies them. The story starts out replicating scenes from March of the Penguins, except with singing. It's very cute for about 3 minutes. Then you realize that the songs are uninventive ripoffs or just songs by the artists themselves. The story has too many elements shoved together, none of which really engage. It tries to be the story of the kid who doesn't fit in, the environmental story, the cross-cultural story. It's fine, but not nearly as original as it could and should have been. Brittany Murphy has an incredible voice, and Robin Williams never ceases to amaze as 3 different characters.