Singing and dancing penguins

Rating: 7/10 (17 February 2012)

This is a good animated movie, just not a great one. So the premise is this, each penguin has a heart song in order to find a spouse and to fit into penguin society. But the penguin named Mumble doesn't have a singing voice but backs it up with tap dancing and his funk. With the penguin society finds to be blasphemy. But Mumble uses his talents to try and help the penguin society while falling in love. The dialogue and direction is also very corny even for a family movie though but after a while it doesn't seem that bad. The animation is fluid and cool to watch as well, which is the highlight of this movie. What I found funny though was how for a kids movie it has a lot of sexual or slightly provocative lines even when it came to the music sometimes but the audiences just seemed to let it slide because it goes in a very cute direction. To sum it up this is like a animated musical with penguins. Some aspects of the story I found to be laughable how the older generation of penguins look down on younger generations of penguins for getting into a bit of modern style of dancing. Cause it comes off a bit cliché and found it funny they put the same thing for a animated movie with penguins. And how having fun is looked down upon by older the older penguins and thought of as a bad thing for penguin society. This animated movie seems a bit drawn out and a bit dull but when it's finished overall it's a good movie that is worth seeing. And you could tell a lot of effort has been put into this animated movie. It would have been great if the movie amount to the effort put into it.
7.1/10