A REVIEW: Happy Feet

Rating: 6/10 (28 November 2006)

Happy Feet is classed as an animated/comedy/family film and inappropriately so. This film went out of it's way to contain quite a few sexual references that were completely obvious. In one scene, a penguin says "It's the males that give woman their BOOM" and he does an awkward movement with his hips, if you get what I mean.
Apart from moral problems, this film's quality lacked in fresh storytelling. There was nothing new about this. It was a "stock-animated film" that was created to capitalize on the random success of "March of the Penguins." In fact, the story became slightly boring half-way through, but semi-paid off with an environmentalist climax, saying that fishing is wrong, which is completely absurd.
While it had fairly good animation, this film was certainly not break-through material. In fact, seeing nothing but white for so long got a little dull, but it wasn't too bad.
Overlooking all the bad, this film was fun and had some very funny moments. However, the jokes didn't make up for it's lack of uniqueness.
MORAL RATING: C+ QUALITY RATING: B