Stunnig visuals, poor script

Rating: 5/10 (10 February 2011)

Another visually stunning animation movie with a a poor childish script.
What I loved about the film is the portray of how penguins live and move (scientifically backed), the main character -which I found adorable- and the character and physical drawing of the rest of the characters.
Notwithstanding, the movie was mentally and emotionally un-engaging mostly because, despite the good animation, the nice colors and settings, the nice musical numbers, the movie suffers from a lack of "internal logic", result of a hurried weak script.
In this movie, I missed that departure premise that makes of most Pixar animation movies believable, no matter how crazy the story might be - The movie's initial premise has to have internal logic for the rest of the events to fall into place. However, this did not happen in HF. For example, in HF the depiction of what happens to the rebel dancing penguin and the attitude of the parents is completely human. So penguins are impersonating and reproducing human ways. That's OK if your target is children. You need more than that to engage adults. There are so many stereotypes, seen for the hundredth time in animated and non animated movies, that I felt disappointed.
This is a Warner Bross movie, and I was thinking, WB animation characters of the past were absolutely brilliant, why is WB coming with this Diney-ish film? Still, this is a nice entertaining movie that children will love.