Appallingly Bad

Rating: 2/10 (12 May 2007)

One star for each time the movie wasn't appallingly bad. And you can thank the five little Mexican penguins for both of them. And you can thank Napoleon Dynamite for making Mexicans cool in movies.
We rented this because everything else was checked out. We should have known better, but we figured there had to be at least a few funny moments. Oops.
Expect to find terrible, flesh-crawling medleys. Badly timed low-grade animation. Characters that you are unable to accept as attractive or funny or compelling. Sound good? How about disjointed plot? Worthless scenes? What was the point? That if narrow-minded creatures who have death-defying escape scenes that have nothing to do with their plot less story swim aimlessly and get captured all they have to do is entertain children and they will be magically returned to their homes and saved? Why? Couldn't we have just watched the Mexican penguins kick it up some more? Couldn't the outcast penguin have come up with some plausible and uplifting way to resolve his own problems, or help his tribe find a better life? I didn't think anything could be as bad as Robots, but here we are again, with the same incorrect message: you can't solve your own problems; other people have to do it for you.
Maybe if the script had been left to a high school film class it could have been rewritten to at least tell a story.
I love animated movies. I love quirky characters, good jokes, fun songs. If you do, too, rent absolutely anything else and you will have a great night.