A point to a film is well needed, but do you really have to beat me over the head with it?

Rating: 1/10 (23 April 2007)

Is this movie about a penguin who can't sing, but can dance and becomes an outcast because of it? Why yes. Is it a light hearted film that you just sit back with? Why yes. Is the 3D animation better then ever. Yep.
Yes, the film is exactly what the adds for it promised, for the first 50 minutes, and it's not hath bad either. After those are done though the film just transforms into a completely different show.
Ya see, the film has a bone to pick with the fishing industry for over fishing and causing many species of fish to go nearly extinct. Well, this is a good bone to pick and if the film wants to make an argument against these guys it should go right ahead, but the film becomes so obsessed with this theme that it becomes no longer a theme, it becomes the plot of the film, and the original plot of this little penguin not being able to fit in isn't only forgotten, it's thrown right out the window.
As a result the thing feels like two different films mixed together. One is the light hearted thing I was expecting, and the other is an in your face one sided documentary that is more blunt in its point then a South Park episode(not making fun of that series. It just gives you a good idea of how dedicated this show is to its theme.) In short, the second hath of the film just bashes your head in with its theme, again, and again, and again. It just keeps on going on about until you can't take it anymore. It simply shoves its own view point down your throat, and as a result you end up with a bad taste in your mouth.
And that's the film in a nut shell. One big long rant that I wasn't up for.
Also adding onto this is the painfully out of place anti Christian themes. The Pagan comment that is thrown in just for the heck of it really came out of left field and right out makes no sense. Come on Warren Coleman, please tell me? How in the world is Mumble symbolic of the Pagan faith? I'm waiting.
Like really, how? Heck, he's more symbolic of being gay then anything. I know you may be thinking I'm nuts right now, but if you have seen the film just take a deep breath and actually think about it. It oddly makes a bit of sense. Hey, if Mumble was symbolic of being gay then all the anti Christian stuff would be kind of fitting, though still to rude and blunt for me.
And yes, I'm not over thinking things, the film is pretty anti Christian, and hey, if they had a good enough argument against that faith they can make it, but what in the world does the Christian religion have to do with the fishing industry? Ya see what I mean. The Christian stuff is just kind of there and has absolutely nothing to do with the main point of the film. So please, save that debate for a different movie. It just doesn't make any sense here.
Anyways, you get what I mean. The film is just really messed up with its point of view.
And what was with using real human actors at the end? Seriously, what was with that? In short, this film isn't for kids. What kid in their right mind enjoys having a heavy symbolic theme bashed into their head? Plus there's a tone of sexual related comedy that is so blunt everyone can get it.
1 out of 10. Right now, I sure wouldn't mind living in a world without penguins.