Gorgeous Very Entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (27 December 2006)

This is another movie about penguins, those lovely, cute, sweet-looking animals. It has gorgeous images, some of the best, most amazing animation I've ever seen. It's a joy to look at and a very enjoyable movie. The story is nice and you can relate to the penguins and feel some empathy towards them. Some of the subplots are very good: the love story is beautiful, the coming-of-age is deliciously innocent, the family/society rejection subplot is intelligent but sometimes a bit forced and the «macho» penguins subplot is laugh-out-loud funny. The worst subplot was the ecological one, it just tries too hard to pass its message. The dialogs are often very funny and intelligent, with a lot of jokes young kids won't get. The pace of the movie is mostly adequate and keeps you entertained, but it gets a bit to slow and forced in the end, which I didn't like.
The cinematography and the animation are beautiful. They create gorgeous images, with a wonderful dimension, cute, lovely penguins, and the humans are the most realistic I've ever seen. The water and the ice look real as do all the other animals. The angles are amazing, they make the images even better. The music sounds great and has beautiful lyrics. Nicole Kidman, Brittany Murphy and Robin Wiliams are good singers especially Kidman, who has the most crystalline, pure voice that fits the part. Overall, it's a fun movie, good to look at but lacking a great story (it's still a good one, but it could have been better).