Rolling my eyes at the political divide

Rating: 4/10 (6 April 2007)

It amuses me that many of the 'reviewers' complain about the message in the movie but send their own hateful message in their posts. "If you didn't like this movie, you are a clueless (read: Republican) soccer mom!!!".
Stop that. Since when do mothers with kids who play soccer have the same freakin' political point of view? I'm a mom with a kid who plays soccer. I am almost as liberal as you can get, I think. I agree with the "message" of this movie. And, I didn't like this movie! I didn't really like it the first time I saw it when it was called "March of the Penguins!" (Ok, these penguins sing and dance.)
Yep, the animation was superb. Some of the music was fun. I don't like musical/tap-dancing movies that much to begin with, so it doesn't make it any better for me when they are animated penguins.
The story didn't make sense to me - "hey, those penguins are dancing. We must be overfishing!". Plus, this is the kind of film that makes me embarrassed to be a green liberal. The message is delivered in a way that is guaranteed to turn off, oh, at least about 51% of the population.
Also, is there a word for sexually anthropomorphizing? That's what they did to the female penguins. Hollywood, you are driving me crazy.
Lastly, instead of hiring Robin Williams to do four characters, why not hire an actual Latino or African American? I like Robin Williams, but him doing a stereotyped Latino penguin was irking me.
Really lastly, some of the scenes are downright scary and sad. "Happy Feet" is something of a misnomer for much of the film.
There are plenty of animated films I've loved. This was not one of them.
But I give everyone else plenty of room to absolutely love it. We can all coexist without hating each other.