Why'd they make it scary?

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2007)

This movie could have been so much nicer to take kids to if there wasn't an overuse of 'peril' (as described for the PG rating). The seal that chases Mumble and the Latino penguins just looked DEMONIC and larger than the killer whales they later encounter. The scale of the seal to the penguins was just ridiculous and overdone for the 'scary' effect.
I just don't think it needed to be like that. A lot of the voices (elephant seals) and imagery were embellished-scary, and I don't think that's what the trailers would have us believe was going to be portrayed.
My son didn't like it and because of being distracted by being scared he missed the storyline. Both my wife and I thought it was over the top, as did some friends of ours.