Wish it were different

Rating: 7/10 (17 December 2006)

I could hardly wait to take my penguin-loving daughter to this movie. I loved the premise and the first half of the movie, however I really expected the second half to just be about how the penguins learn to love Mumble despite the fact he can't sing. Instead, it really felt like two different movies.
The actual direction it took felt completely contrived and went way over the heads of most of the kids in our showing. If they had just kept the simple story they started with it would have been much more enjoyable! In all, it was a pretty good movie, but it could have been great!