I thought it was a pretty bad film

Rating: 1/10 (26 November 2006)

I watched the movie today with a group of friends... and i thought it was a pretty bad film, which was geared towards adults more than kids. The film's advertising made it seem like it would be a fun movie with dancing & singing penguins, but I couldn't help but feel deceived when I the movie ended.
The movie was visually appealing (at some points I wasn't able to distinguish whether it was CGI or real filming... except for the ending where you can clearly tell they pasted in the dancing men in red outfits.) But visually, I thought it was pretty good.
The plot made sense in a way, but it did not need to be that long of a movie. And the ending seemed somewhat random and didn't flow to well with the whole movie. Too often it felt like the storyline was dragging and there were a lot underlying themes you wouldn't want your children to grow up on. For example there was a lot of racial humor I would not want my kid's to think was okay. The film uses skewed stereotype(which is sadly becoming more acceptable nowadays) to make a lot of their jokes.
Here are just a few stereotypes that the movie uses:
That Italians are oppressive and violent and viewed as typical Mobsters. (I don't even know why they put an Italian voice behind the hawks, they could have easily removed that.) That Hispanics/Chicanos are in large groups and act randomly, talk really fast etc.. That blacks (Lovelace) are religious and hypocritical at the same time That they also pick up a lot of women. That Christianity or religion in general is bad/old/supercritical/cause your parents not to love you if you were different.
I did like the way the movie wanted you to think outside your own little bubble in life but if you notice the racism/stereotypical humor, sexual oriented (more than a few times) lines and bad flow of storyline thats behind the whole film then I don't recommend it(especially if your a parent with kids watching). My friends and I left the movie theater with a very bad feeling, reflecting over the fact that we wasted $7.50 and 2 hours of our life. Note: 1 of them is a grade school teacher and the another babysits kids, both thought the movie was very bad and they also thought it was too adult for the kids to enjoy. I thought it was a very bad film too and I've worked with hundreds of kids. (Another Note: The kids in the AMC theatre laughed less than the adults and the adults didn't laugh much)
The best way I could describe the film is that it's kind of like reading a very very VERY bad version of Animal Farm (FYI I think A. Farm is a great book) to your kids. Just because there are a bunch of cute animals that do things like people, doesn't mean you should show it to them at such a young age. I don't recommend this film at all and quite honestly I don't think this movie should get a score higher than upper 5's.
And also, I thought it was amusing that they would have Robin Williams do the Latino and Black impersonations. yea... it's pretty sad that they would do that.