Depressing, but GREAT.

Rating: 9/10 (15 June 2007)

This movie was something special. I'm not a person that gets depressed or teary over movies, but this one did almost make me cry. I didn't, but I admit I could have.
The things Mumble goes through. He nearly gets eaten by birds, he gets outcasted by everyone and everything he knows and loves, and he finds solace in similar outcasts like him. (A group of hilarious Mexican penguins.) He even gets trapped in a human zoo, where we nearly loses any will to live. My god.
The movie was great, the messages were on the dot. The only thing I didn't like was how the humans just fixed everything all up and nice just because they saw dancing penguins. Would we do that in real life? Sadly, probably not. We'd probably just export the entire colony. The music was awesome, though random, still enjoyable.