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Rating: 3/10 (28 February 2007)

Happy Feet was strange, to say the least. I realise the movie was trying desperately to send a "message" but at the expense of entertainment ? Sorry, other films manage to combine both but Happy Feet missed the boat entirely. A bit like Mumble, actually. God knows what kids make of it. I can see them coming out of cinema's across the country wondering what the heck that was all about. Tap dancing penguin entertains humans at a zoo thousands of miles from his home. Penguin is released with locating beeper attached and returns home to insist that the only way to get the food chain back on track is to stop singing rhythm and blues and start tap dancing. That way the humans will be entertained and they will stop fishing in their sea ? I applaud the animators and the idea's behind this film but it needed cohesion and a decent script. Cutsie baby penguins are all well and good, but my teeth were grinding after 20 minutes of this drivel Also, was it necessary to show seals in with such realism ? We are aware that penguins are on their menu but, yikes, that seal was ferocious !