Elvis Presley doing Kiss? Wow!

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2007)

Like "Thank You For Smoking", this film is taking your limitation and making it boundless but set to penguins of all creatures - Mambo/Mumble (Elijah "Lord Of The Rings/Frodo" Wood) was born without a singing gene and instead has a superb sense of dance comparable to Fred Astaire, Gregory Hinds or Michael Jackson (actually - it was Savion Glover's happy feet)!
His "disability" is due to his father, Memphis - an Elvis devotee as interpreted by Hugh Jackman, having dropped him as an egg while waiting for his wife Norma Jean as done by Nicole Kidman.
Robin Williams had the honour of performing two parts in the same film, a crazy Latino Puffin-like Ramon as well as the Barry White/Rev. Al Sharpton-ish Lovelace (the other kind of penguin with a Don King hairdo) a self-styled guru rather like Oz/Magus from Frank L. Baum's original childhood classic.
When you look at it carefully, this flick is filled with Aussies - Hugh Jackman; Hugo Weaving as the old fuddy-duddy Noah The Elder; Nicole Kidman and the late Steve Irwin as one of the sea elephants.
While I am not sure if this is a true spoiler - I am curious when humans eventually do appear in the film, are they real as in live-action or simulated digital animation?
For me, the purpose of the picture is to uphold the tenet of "Vive La Difference" in that change is the one guarantee of Life, and eventually even old Noah The Elder must accept that new strange ways can sometimes save lives, rather than holding fast to an old method which may drag one into a slow extinction!
Mambo/Mumble's father accepts that and actually dances while singing Prince's "Kiss" as interpreted by Tom Jones - and truth be known? When Hugh Jack man did the Prince Classic as if he was Elvis, it made me sad the King was not around, because Elvis doing "Kiss" would've been some seriously hot stuff!
I loved this picture for the dance, songs and singing - I just can't wait to shuffle to the nearest store for a copy of the soundtrack!