Tastes Like Chicken?

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2007)

For the indiscriminate goobers in the audience, there's Happy Feet, a one-note wonder of an animated feature, about a penguin condemned to suffer the fate of Oblio in The Point, only this time, the odd duck can't sing instead of having a round head. It took me about ten minutes to grow tired of this preachy mess, with George Miller and his crew pounding you about the head and neck with the blunt object of how awful humans are for fishing and putting wild animals in zoos.
Puh-leeze!
Happy Feet was released by Warner Brothers, but the only cliché missing was somebody warbling, crooning, or burping Disney's "Follow your heart!" command. And once again, my lovely wife and daughter liked it.
But not as much as they used to.
Is it possible that tiresome movies about cute lil' critters fighting off the rapacious bastardy that is humankind might have grown old for them?
We can all only hope.