Happy Feet/Transcript

==Transcript==
Female singer: Once there was a way to get back homeward
Male Singer: Are the stars out tonight?
Female Singer: Once there was a way to get back home
Male Singer: I only have eyes
Female Singer: Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry
Male singer: For you
Female singer: And I will sing a lullaby
Male Singer: With a song in my heart
Female singer: So tell me
Singers: Tell me something good
Female Singer: Tell me that you love me Tell me, baby
Singers: Tell me something good
Male singer: Only you
Norma Jean: But how can you know for sure?
Male Singer: Can make this world seem right
Norma Jean: Is there really just one?
Male singer: I need your love
Norma Jean: So many songs, but I'm feeling so lonely.
Singer: Where is the love?
Norma Jean: (singing) You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on I just need your body, baby
Other penguin: Hello
- From dusk till dawn
- Is it me you're looking for?
Norma Jean: You don't need experience
Penguin: Take
- To turn me out
- These broken wings
Norma Jean: You just leave it all up to me Let's talk about eggs, baby Let's talk about you and me You don't have to be rich
- Give me all your loving
- To be my pearl
You don't have to be cool
To rule my world
Ain't no particular song
I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra- -
Boys. Boys.
Give a chick a chance.
Well, since my baby left me
I found a new place to dwell
It's down at the end of Lonely Street
At Heartbreak Hotel
And I said, "I'm feelin' so lonely, baby
I'm feelin' so lonely
Oh, I'm feelin' so lonely"...
I could die
Don't have to be rich to be my girl
Don't have to be cool to rule my world
You rule my world
You're the particular song
I'm compatible with
I just want your
- Extra time
- Extra time
- And your kiss
- And your kiss
Lovelace: His mom and dad met in the usual way. The song became love... ... and love became the egg.
Norma Jean: You gonna be okay, Daddy?
Memphis: Oh, sure, honey. We'll be waiting for you, right here on Lonely Street.
Norma Jean: ♪ I love you more and more, tell me why... ♪ (not singing) Bye-bye, now.
Memphis: Goodbye, Norma Jean! Don't you worry about a thing!
Norma Jean & The Wives: ♪ Don't wanna let you go...I never can say goodbye, boy... ♪
(Memphis watches his wife leave as the voices fade away. Sooner or later, the sun starts setting, and a snow storm hits Emperor Land.)
Noah The Elder: When all others leave...
The Elders & The Male Penguins: We remain!
Noah The Elder: When the sun vanishes...
The Elders & The Male Penguins: We remain!
(The scene then changes to Memphis, who is carefully walking with the egg under him. But, unlike everyone else who is focused, he is semi-lost in his own world, thinking about his wife.)
Memphis: (quietly, to himself) ♪ I'm feelin' so lonely...I'm feelin' so lonely... ♪
Noah The Elder: Heed the wisdoms, brothers! Make a huddle!
The Elders: Warm thy egg!
Noah The Elder: Make a huddle!
The Elders & The Male Penguins: Share the cold!
Memphis: Share the cold.
Noah The Elder: Each must take his turn against the icy blast...If we are to survive the endless night! Raise your voices, brothers! Give praise to The Great 'Guin...Who puts songs in our hearts, and fish in our bellies!
(The males all sing in unison. Their voices get carried in the cold in, and form a glowing depiction of The Great 'Guin. It raises its flippers a little with fish swimming around it, "blessing" the penguins with said fish. It then hears a different song within the crowd and double-takes as it sees a depiction of Norma Jean in the wind. Her Heartsong was being sung by Memphis, who, once again, was in his own world.)
Norma Jean:: ♪ ...Don't have to be cool to rule my world. Ain't no particular song I'm more compatible with... ♪
Memphis: OHH, baby, l think l wanna dance now!
(Due to Memphis' carelessness, the worst happens. As he's trying to dance, he accidentally drops he and Norma Jean's egg.)
Memphis: AH! No, no, no, no, no, no!
(Memphis quickly chases after the egg while sliding on his belly. It isn't long until he catches it. He quickly and carefully puts it back under his pouch.)
90thLovelace (V.O.): There is a wisdom, brothers and sisters...That stands above all others. Never, ever...
Memphis: (quietly, panicking) It's okay.
Lovelace (V.O.): ...No matter what...
Memphis: (still panicking) No harm done, see?
Lovelace (V.O.): Drop. Your. Egg.
Memphis: (to himself) No, we're cool. We're cool.
(Memphis hurriedly walks back into his place in the huddle. All of the male penguins sing in unison. The one we can mostly hear is Memphis, who is singing most passionately.)
Lovelace (V.O.): Of the many thousands who sang through that long night of winter, it was Memphis who cried out most fervently...To turn the Earth and bring back the sun.
(The scene the changes to the shot of Earth from outer space. The sun is now shining down on Antarctica. The icicles start melting from the heat of the sun. Suddenly, cracks start to form in the ice. The scene cuts to a shot of an ice glacier breaking off of another, forming a big wave in the floor of ice, which transitions to a shot of an egg hatching. The time has finally come. All of the other penguins have hatched out of their shells after months and months of incubating...Except for Memphis and Norma Jean's egg, who hasn't budged at all. He is staring down at the egg with a worried expression on his face. Memphis' friend, Maurice, goes over to him with his newly hatched daughter, Gloria.)
Maurice: Memphis? ls everything okay?
Memphis: l don't know. l-I can't hear anything.
(Gloria taps the egg a little with her beak. Nothing.)
Baby Gloria: ls it empty?
Maurice: Honey...
Baby Gloria: (to Memphis) Can l have it?
Maurice: (hushed) Gloria!
Memphis: I-It's okay, Maurice.
(Gloria taps on the egg again with her beak. Still nothing.)
Maurice: It happens sometimes, Memphis.
Memphis: (sighs, defeated) ...Yeah...
(Gloria taps on the egg again, but this time, with a rhythmic beat. Just when all hope seemed lost, there were tapping sounds coming from inside the egg. It immediately catches Memphis' attention.)
Memphis: Wait, you hear that?
Maurice: Yeah!
Memphis: Hey, l can hear you, buddy. Oh, your papa's here, it's okay.
(The tapping sounds get even more intense. The chick is alive, for sure. Gloria happily giggles.)
Memphis: (excitedly) Ohhh, he's okay, Maurice!
(One foot pops out of the egg.)
Memphis: Whoa, there it is! That's his little foot there!
(The other one pops out.)
Memphis: There's his other one!
(The egg rolls on its feet and starts stumbling away from the three, Gloria chasing it while laughing. While it does, it makes little mumbling noises.)
Memphis: That's different.
Maurice: Yeah.
Baby Gloria: Hey! Come back here, Mr. Mumble!
Maurice: Uh, Gloria...
Memphis: Oh, she can call him whatever the heck she likes!
(The egg loses its balance starts slipping and sliding on little slopes of ice.)
Memphis: Whoa, little Mumble!
(The runaway eggs manages to get back on its feet, but then loses balance again and slips down a miniature slope and falls, finally cracking the egg and releasing the chick inside. The three go to check on him.)
Baby Gloria: Mumble? Mumble?
Memphis: You okay?
Baby Mumble: (shivering while tapping) Freezing! Freezing!
Memphis: Oh, you'll get used to it.
(Mumble continues to shiver while looking up at his dad.)
Memphis: (motions him to come up to him) Come on. Come to your daddy.
Male Penguin #1: What do you make of that?
Male Penguin #2: Little wobbly in the knees.
Male Penguin #1: ls he okay?
Male Penguin #2: l don't know.
Memphis: What'chu doin' there, boy?
Baby Mumble: I'm happy, Pa!
Memphis: What'chu doin' with your feet?
Baby Mumble: (looks down at feet, then back up at Memphis) They're happy too!
Memphis: l wouldn't do that 'round folks, son.
Baby Mumble: (stops tapping) Why not?
Memphis: Well, it just ain't penguin, okay?
Baby Mumble: Okay.
Memphis: Yeah. Hey, c'mon over here. Get under here. Get warm.
(Mumble starts tapping his feet and gets ready to rush beneath his dad.)
Memphis: Watch the beak. Watch the beak— Beak! AH!
(He gets hit...There. Mumble readjusts himself under him.)
Memphis: (in pain) The beak. Okay, good boy.
(Later on, all of the males are lined up with their chicks under them, awaiting for the arrival of their wives / mothers.)
Eggbert The Elder: So late. What's keeping them?
Noah The Elder: Pray, brothers, The Great 'Guin does not test us with a lean season.
Eggbert The Elder: Why, Noah? Have we not all been dutiful?
(The scene changes to Mumble, ready to see his mom soon.)
Memphis: (leans down towards Mumble) So, when you see your mama?
Baby Mumble: l stand perfectly still.
Memphis: You got it.
Baby Mumble: But, how will l know which one's my mama?
Memphis: (leans back up) Oh, you'll know. She's got a wiggle in her walk, a giggle in her talk...And when she sings, it darn near breaks your heart.
(Sooner or later, a huge group of penguins emerge from the fog and are approaching Emperor Land, who could be none other than...)
The Penguin On The Ice: Hey, wait. l see them! l see them!
One Of The Elders: You're right! You're right!
Noah The Elder: (echoing out) WIVES, HO!
Male Penguin: Wives, ho!
Baby Mumble: Wives, ho!
(Mumble immediately leaps away from his dad and runs towards the incoming female penguins.)
Memphis: Wait, no! Wait, no, Mumble, get back here! No, Mumble! Get back—! Mumble!
(Mumble is running in front of the group of male penguins. Eventually, the wives reunite with their respective husbands and their young.)
Memphis: Mumble?! Mumble?! Mumble?!
Maurice: Michelle? Michelle?
Another Male Penguin: Roxanne?
Maurice: Michelle?
Female Penguin: Alfie?
Michelle: Maurice!
Maurice: Michelle! Michelle!
Baby Gloria: Mommy!
Michelle: Oh, she's so darling!
Memphis: (moving through the crowd) Excuse me. Pardon me, pardon me. Mumble? Mumble?! Oh, Mumble...
(The search for Mumble continues. Little did Memphis know, he wasn't too far from his son.)
Baby Mumble: Mama!
Memphis: (distanced) Mumble?!
Baby Mumble: Mama!
Memphis: Mumble! MUMBLE!
Baby Mumble: (distanced) Mama! Mama!
Memphis: Mumble, boy, where are ya'?!
Baby Mumble: (distanced) Mama!
(The song gets even more intense as Memphis looks back at the crowd and tries to find his son. Almost all of the wives have been reunited with their families. Except for one...)
Norma Jean: Memphis?
(Memphis turns around, relieved to to see his wife. The two approach each other, happily.)
Memphis: Oh, Mama. Oh, Mama! Oh ho! Oh, my.
Norma Jean: Daddy. (looks around the ground) So-So where's the baby?
Memphis: Well, honey, I'll...l'll find him.
Norma Jean: (shocked) You lost the baby?! Memphis!
Memphis: It's okay!
(Almost as if it was right on cue, Mumble emerges from the last remaining penguins from the crowd and finally finds his mom.)
Baby Mumble: Mama? Mama?
Memphis: (holds out flipper) Stay!
Norma Jean: (gasps, to Mumble) Come to Mommy!
Memphis: (hesitant) Wait, no, Mumble...
(Mumble happily speed-walks while tapping towards her.)
Baby Mumble: (giggling) Mama, Mama...
Norma Jean: Hey, w-what's wrong with his feet?
Memphis: Oh, that's just a lil' thing he's got goin'. He'll grow out of it.
(Mumble hugs his mom's leg while shaking his tail as he spins her around slowly, causing her to giggle.)
Baby Mumble: (laughing) Mama!
Norma Jean: Oh, Memphis...He's gorgeous!
Memphis: Isn't he, though?
Norma Jean: (to Mumble) Look at you!
Baby Mumble: Mama.
Norma Jean: l got something for you. Open up.
(Mumble opens up his beak. Like normal penguin mothers do, she feeds her young by gagging up the fish she collected into his beak.)
Memphis: Oh, l love the way she does that.
(Later on down the line, it is shown that Mumble now attends Penguin Elementary, a place where the baby chicks learn how to sing.)
Miss Viola's Class: ♪ ...W, X, Y and Z... ♪
Miss Viola: Good morning, class.
Miss Viola's Class: Good morning, Miss Viola.
Miss Viola: Right. Well, today we begin with the most important lesson you will ever learn...At Penguin Elementary. Does anyone know what that is? Anyone? Anyone? Someone? Seymour?
Baby Seymour: Fishing?
Miss Viola: No. Mumble?
Baby Mumble: Don't eat yellow snow?
Miss Viola: No, that's not it, no.
Baby Gloria: It's our Heartsong, Miss.
Miss Viola: Thank you, Gloria! Excellent, yes. Without our Heartsong, we can't be truly penguin, can we?
Miss Viola's Class: No.
Baby Mumble: (out of sync) No.
Miss Viola: But, my dears, it's not something that l can actually teach you. Does anybody know why? Anyone? Anyone?
Baby Gloria: You can't teach it to us, ma'am. Because we have to find our Heartsongs all by ourselves!
Miss Viola: Well done, you!
Baby Gloria: It's the voice you hear inside...Who you truly are.
Miss Viola: Yes! Thank you, Gloria! Excellent, lovely, thank you. So, let's all be very still now. Take a moment, and let it come to you.
(The Heartsongs all come to the chicks simultaneously. All except for Mumble.)
One Of The Baby Chicks: l got one!
Baby Seymour: Pick me! Pick me, Pick me!
Miss Viola: One at a time. Yes, Seymour.
Baby Seymour:
(rapping)
♪ Don't push me
'Cause I am close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head ♪
Miss Viola: Yes, l like that one! l could really get jiggy with that. Lovely.
Baby Gloria: I'm ready! l got one!
Miss Viola: Oh, l thought you might, Gloria.
Baby Gloria:
(singing)
♪ Mi.. (clears throat)
Midnight creeps so slowly
Into hearts of those
Who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand
To a penguin
Who has laid too many...B-e-ets...~ ♪
(Her singing catches the attention of some older penguins, who adore her voice. Even the class is amazed by her talent.)
Baby Gloria: That's as far as l got, so far.
Miss Viola: Oh, yes, lovely. Really lovely.
Baby Mumble: That's beautiful!
Miss Viola: Well, Mumble, since you seem so keen to share.
(Mumble goes in front of Miss Viola, the same as the last two chicks did to show what they got.)
Baby Mumble: Mine's sort of a...Boom and a... *pbt-pbt-pbt-pbt-pbbbt*
(The other chicks laugh and giggle at his response.)
Baby Mumble: And another boom.
Miss Viola: You heard that in there?
Baby Mumble: Do you like it?
Miss Viola: I'm afraid that's not a tune.
Baby Mumble: It's not?
Miss Viola: No, dear. A tune is like... (singing) ♪ Luh-la-la-la-la-la-laa! ♪
Baby Mumble: Uh, okay... (tries to sing, ends up screeching)
(That sudden sound of Mumble's screech catches the attention of The Elders.)
Noah The Elder: WHO is that?
One Of The Elders: That is the offspring of Memphis and Norma Jean.
Noah The Elder: The wee hippity-hopper.
(Mumble continues trying to sing, but is still screeching. All of his noise causes an icicle to fall on top of his head, making him shut up. All of the other kids laugh at him, while some groan in pain.)
Baby Gloria: (to the laughing chicks, angered) It's not funny!
Miss Viola: No...No, not in the least! A penguin without a Heartsong is... (looks over at Mumble) Hardly a penguin at all!
(Upon hearing those words, Mumble looks down in embarrassment.)
One Of The Baby Chicks: (in pain) l think he broke my ear...
(The scene changes to the school day being over. Miss Viola is seen talking with Mumble's parents, while Mumble himself is tapping a little in the snow, away from the three.)
Miss Viola: In all my years, I've never, l mean...And you having such fine voices. Well, it's bizarre. Did anything happen? You know, during early development?
Norma Jean: No, all fine. Normal incubation.
Miss Viola: Right.
Norma Jean: (turns head towards Memphis) Wasn't it, honey?
Memphis: Yeah. Yeah, it was a...Tough winter, l guess.
Miss Viola: Right, right.
Memphis: He did hatch a little late—
Miss Viola: Yes, l understand.
ma Jean: To think he might spend his life alone...
Miss Viola: Quite, quite.
Norma Jean: ...Never to meet his one true love.
Memphis: Oh, please, Miss Viola, isn't there something we can do?
Miss Viola: Well, there is always Mrs. Astrakhan.
Memphis: Mrs. Astrakhan?
Miss Viola: (points towards where Mrs. Astrakhan is) If anyone can, Mrs. Astrakhan can.
(The camera quickly pans over to where Mrs. Astrakhan is singing. In a short second, the scene cuts to her talking to Mumble, officially introducing her character.)
Mrs. Astrakhan: Can't sing? Can't sing? Rubbish, darling. Every little penguin has a song. When l have finished...Your singing will be giving everyone the goose pimple.
(A shiver runs through her from toe to head.)
Mrs. Astrakhan: (starts walking in front of Mumble) Now, to begin. First, we must find a feeling. Happy feeling. Sad feeling...Maybe...Lonely feeling. (turns head towards Mumble) You feel it?
Baby Mumble: Uh-huh.
Mrs. Astrakhan: Good. Now, let it out! Be SPONTANEOUS!
(Her voice echoes out through the icy walls. She awaits for Mumble to start singing with her back turned, but she instead hears him doing what he only knows how to do best. She turns around towards him, confused.)
Mrs Astrakhan: That— what is that?
Baby Mumble: I'm being "spontan-you-us".
(Norma Jean giggles and nods slightly while Memphis looks on, worried.)
Mrs. Astrakhan: Darling, you want to meet beautiful girl?
Baby Mumble: (stops tapping) Mhm.
Mrs. Astrakhan: You want to make the egg?
Baby Mumble: Oh, yes.
Mrs. Astrakhan: Well, SING! And no jiggy-jog! (stands up straight) Do not move muscle! No moving!
(Mumble also stands up straight, not moving. He tries to sing once more...)
Baby Mumble: (singing...?) Twin-kle, twin-kle, lit-tle STAR!!!
(Once again, he screeches instead of singing on the last part. All three adult penguins are shocked from the sudden outburst.)
Mrs. Astrakhan: (stops him) Enough! Okay. We go back to the top. Forget body. Look inside soul. Feel the feeling. Enormous feeling. So enormous, it fills whole body. (goes behind Mumble) It must escape, or you explode! Now, open your little beak. Come on.
(Mumble opens his beak...)
Mrs. Astrakhan: Yes, yes. Lift up the head, that's it.
(He lifts up his head...)
Mrs. Astrakhan: Now...Now...! (singing) ♪ NO-O-O-OWWW~! ♪
(It is silent for a moment, but then Mumble bursts in an energetic tap dance. Norma Jean watches him and giggles again, while Memphis still looks on, concerned. Eventually Mumble finishes tap-dancing.)
Mrs. Astrakhan: (distressed) Disaster! Catastrophe! l never fail before. Never! (lays dramatically on her back on a piece of big ice) Never! (sobs)
(Mumble can do nothing but sit there and slightly sway his flippers. Sooner or later, the family of three leave Mrs. Astrakhan, who is banging her head on the ice in the distance, still in disbelief from what she had witnessed.)
Norma Jean: Well, l thought it was kinda cute.
Memphis: But it just ain't penguin, okay?
Norma Jean: So what if he's a little different? l always kind of liked different.
Memphis: He's not different! He's a regular emperor penguin!
Baby Mumble: Hey, you know what? l can leave school. l can go to work! The three of us!
Memphis: (turns around towards him) Whoa, whoa, whoa, little fella. You ain't going nowhere 'til you got yourself an education. You get them singing muscles big and strong, you got that?
Baby Mumble: I'll try, Pa.
Memphis: You bet you will. The word "triumph" starts with "try", and it ends with...?
Baby Mumble: "Umph".
Memphis: That's right. A great big umph! (walks away, mildly frustrated) I'm going fishing.
Baby Mumble: "Umph". "Umph". "Umph".
(He and Norma Jean walk next to each other, while he continues to repeat himself.)
Norma Jean: Oh, Mumble...
Lovelace (V.O.): That first hard summer, while his mom and dad were working overtime on the great commute to the sea, Mumble found a place away from disapproving eyes...Where a funky little fella could be himself.
(Mumble starts tapping a little, until he's finally found a beat. The song "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder starts playing while he taps. He is in his element until it is interrupted by four big skuas.)
Boss Skua: Hey. What'chu doing there, flipper bird?
Baby Mumble: Nothing. What're you doing?
Boss Skua: Nothin'. Just dropped in for a lil' lunch.
Baby Mumble: There's food? Here?
(The three four skuas laugh.)
Dino: Leg or wing?
(The four skuas start to close in on the little chick.)
Baby Mumble: Oh, no, no, wait! Not me! I'm a penguin!
Boss Skua: Exactly. The flipper birds, that's you, eat the fish.
Frankie: Yeah.
Boss Skua: The flying birds, that's me, eat the flipper bird and the fish. And lately, there ain't a lot of fish. So...
Vinnie: This time, I'm getting the juicy bits!
Frankie: Me first!
Vinnie: Hey, you want a piece of me?!
Boss Skua: Hey, hey, hey! I'm trying to think about lunch!
Baby Mumble: Wait! Watch this!
(He starts tapping to show the skuas what he can do. Silence is followed up with Frankie laughing.)
Boss Skua: Yeah, that's weird, all right. (puts his foot upon Mumble, pinning him to the ground) Listen. For once, we're gonna do this civilized. Now, get in line—
Baby Mumble: (points at the tag on the Boss Skua's leg) Hey! What's that on your leg?
Boss Skua: (takes his foot off of him) What? This little thing?
Dino: (facepalms) Oh, no. Don't start him on that.
Boss Skua: (slaps all of the other skuas) Shut up! The little flipper bird asked me a perceptive question! A question like that deserves an answer!
Dino: Here we go.
Boss Skua: (gets closer to Mumble) l got two words for you: Alien. Abduction.
Dino: (frustrated) Ohhh, you had to ask!
Frankie: (also frustrated) Have mercy.
Boss Skua: (to the skuas) QUIET! (to Mumble, normal toned, but almost quiet) Now, little buddy, there is something out there. (re-approaches him, side-stepping slowly) Creatures. Not like us. Bigger, fiercer, and smarter too. Ask me how l know.
Baby Mumble: How?
Boss Skua: Because I've been captured by them, that's how!
Baby Mumble: Unbelievable!
Boss Skua: What do you mean unbelievable? It's true! (once he starts explaining, the other skuas in the back reenact the story) I'm sitting on a rock, minding my own business, when suddenly, they're onto me. These beings, like big ugly penguins. Fat, flabby faces with front-ways eyes...No feathers, no beaks, and these—these appendages. They probe me. They tie me up. They strap me down. (starts getting frantic) They take this pointy thing and they STICK IT INTO ME! (normally talking) And then...Blackout. (dramatically slumps over)
Baby Mumble: Gosh.
Boss Skua: l woke up and there's this—this thing on me. Every flying bird is dissing me, "Hey, what's happening, yellow leg?" (slumps over dramatically, again) It was humiliating.
Baby Mumble: And then what?
Boss Skua; It was humiliating. What more do you want?
Baby Mumble: They could have eated you.
Boss Skua: (turns head towards him) Yeah. Yeah. l guess my pitiful cries for mercy appealed to their better nature. (starts approaching Mumble)
Baby Mumble: (starts backing up from the skua) Can l appeal to your better nature?
Boss Skua: Nice try, kid, But no.
(The Boss Skua pushes the other skuas out of the way to attempt to eat Mumble. The latter then gets cornered into a hole in the ice, away from the natural predators.)
Baby Mumble: No. No. No!
Frankie: What'chu doing down there, flipper bird?
Dino: Get up here!
Boss Skua: Get back up here this minute!
Vinnie: Oh, great. You let him get away. Didn't you? All your screwy alien talk.
Boss Skua: Hey, I'm an abductee.
Frankie: Abduct this.
Boss Skua; Don't make me call Uncle Angie.
Frankie: Oh, fine.
Boss Skua: Where you'se going? I'm an abductee!
Vinnie: l don't care what you are, I'm hungry!
Dino: Would you like to hear our specials? How about fish? There's no fish. How about penguin? There's no penguin! What are we gonna eat?!
(Mumble pokes his head out from the hole and goes back in it, shivering with fear. The score "In My Room" fades in as the scene cuts to Miss Viola's Class singing the lyrics to the score.)
Miss Viola's Class:
♩ There's a world
where I can go
And tell my secrets to...
...In my room... ♩
(The class slowly spins on the "to" part in the song. Gloria then looks at Mumble, who is in the back of the class now, and back. Mumble then looks up at the clouds. The children continue singing as Lovelace start speaking.)
Lovelace (V.O.): Paying no mind to his dancing heart, the kid saw out his school days at the back of the class, lost in his imaginings. What fabulous worlds lay out there, far beyond the ice? Was there any place, where one small penguin without a Heartsong...Could ever truly belong?
(The song goes into an instrumental break, and the scene transitions to months later, where all of the classes are graduating. All of the small chicks have grown into adult penguins.)
Noah The Elder: And so, a thousand generations ago, our forefathers forsook our wings for flippers. You graduates going to sea for the first time are to reap the benefits of their wise choice. These are lean and uncertain times, but by the power of the ancient penguin wisdoms...We, my brethren, will endure!
(Noah continues talking as the shot shows the lightly tapping feet of a grown penguin's. It is revealed to be a grown Mumble...Who has not completely grown out of his chick feathers.)
Norma Jean: (annoyed, mocking Noah) Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Memphis: (hushed) Norma Jean.
Norma Jean: Who is he to say my boy can't graduate? He's not hurting anyone.
Noah The Elder: ...True to our ways and you will always be worthy of this...Our brave penguin nation. Excelsior!
Noah, The Elders, and The Crowd: Ja, ja, JA!
(All of the graduates fling up their baby feathers and head out to the sea as one big group as the crowd applauds them.)
Graduate Male Penguin: Ocean, here l come!
Norma Jean: You know what? We're gonna have a little graduation ceremony of our own.
Mumble: You mean it, Ma?
Norma Jean: You betcha!
Memphis: No, wait—
Mumble & Norma Jean: Excelsior! Ja, ja, ja!
Memphis: (hushed) Keep it down!
Mumble: Pa.
Norma Jean: Memphis.
Memphis: (looks around and clears throat, hushed even more) Ja, ja-ja!
(With that, Mumble heads out to sea right behind the graduates.)
Norma Jean: Go get 'em, tiger.
Mumble: Thanks, Ma!
Norma Jean: Make every moment count!
Mumble: Got you, Ma!
Memphis: Remember, "Stranger Danger".
Mumble: Yeah, sure, Pa!
Memphis: And watch out for those leopard seals and them killer whales!
Eggbert The Elder: Mark this, Noah. That boy was always a bad egg. I'm telling you, no good will come of this.
(The scene changes to all of the other penguins walking, Mumble finally catches up with them. One of the male penguins look back at him and groan. "Jump N' Move" by The Brand New Heavies play.)
Mumble: Guys! Wait up!
(Mumble starts sliding on his belly to catch up with the other penguins faster. It is shown that none of them want to jump into the water due to potential predators.)
Male Penguin #1: What do you think?
Male Penguin #2: You first.
Female Penguin #1: No, you first.
(From the velocity Mumble was sliding at, he goes up a slope of ice an ends up pushing himself through the crowd until he falls off the cliff of ice, being the first one in the water.)
Male Penguin #3: What was that?
Female Penguin #2: l think it was the fuzzball.
Female Penguin #3: See any blood?
Mumble: What'chu waiting for?!
Seymour: Hey, Gloria!
(Gloria giggles)
Seymour: Gloria, l adore-ia! l'd like to see more-ia!
Mumble: Gloria!
(Mumble, along with some other penguins, go up to the surface. Gloria gets up on the surface, then Mumble, who accidentally lands on her.)
Mumble: (distant) Woahh!
Gloria: Mumble?
Mumble: Gloria!
(Since they're still wet from the water, the two keep slipping into...Interesting positions.)
Mumble: I'm sorry. l didn't mean to—
Seymour: Fall back, coming through!
(Seymour accidentally bumps the two into the water. The two swim with and around each other, staring into each other's eyes. But Gloria is looking at something else...)
Mumble: Gloria? All my life, I've wanted to say that you're so—
Gloria: Fish...
Mumble: Yeah, you're so fish.
Gloria: (giggles) No! Fish!
Everyone: Fish!
(Everyone scrambles to get a fish. Some get one, some don't. All of the fish seem to be taken, but there is one that swims by. Mumble and Gloria try to get it. Gloria is close to catching it, but another penguin grabs it before her, accidentally bumping her out of the way.)
Female Penguin: (to Gloria) Sorry.
Mumble: (muffled, with a fish in his mouth) Gloria! You got one?
Gloria: Nope. Not this time.
Mumble: (muffled) You have it.
Gloria: Thank you, Mumble, but it's yours.
Mumble: l want you to have it.
Gloria: No. You caught it, you eat it.
Mumble: l want you to—
(Before Mumble could finish his sentence, a skua dives into the water and steals the fish right from Mumble's beak. By instinct, he chases after it.)
Gloria: Skua! You get back here!
(With enough momentum from jumping, Mumble grabs hold of the fish while it's still in the skua's beak. Other skua start attacking Mumble while he's midair.)
Gloria: (in and out of the water) Mumble! Let go! Mumble! LET GOOO!
(Mumble manages to snatch the fish away from the skuas, but ends up falling on ice, hard.)
One Of The Skuas: You just let him get away!
(Upon impact, Mumble lays there on the ice. All of the other penguins look over at the fallen penguin.)
Male Penguin #1: ls he breathing?
Male Penguin #2: He's certainly not eating.
(Not too long after, Gloria comes up from the water and walks over to Mumble.)
Gloria: Mumble? Are you okay? Mumble...?
Mumble: (mumbling) Take the fish.
Gloria: Huh?
Mumble: (louder, looking up at her) Take the stupid fish.
Gloria: Oh, okay. (carefully takes the fish from his beak, then eats it) Thank you, Mumble.
("Somebody To Love" by Queen fades in.)
Mumble: (weakly sits up, bones cracking a little) You're welcome.
(The scene cuts to later on that night. The graduates are having a party on top of a huge iceberg. Like back in Penguin Elementary, Mumble is in the back.)
Seymour (O.S.): On this, our night of graduation, infatuation, illumination, top of the class, ooh! Missy Gloria!
Gloria & The Choir:
♪ Each morning I get up, I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
(Take a look at yourself)
Take a look in the mirror and cry
(And cry)
Lord, what'chu doin' to me?
I spent all my years in believin' you
I just can't get no relief, Lo-o-ord
Somebody
(Somebody)
Please, somebody
(Somebody)
Can anybody find me
Somebody to lo-o-ove?
(She works hard)
Every Day
Every Day
Oh, I try, and I try, and I try
But everybody wants to put me down
They say, they say,
I'm going crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
Got no common sense I got nobody left to believe in
(Yeah, yeah, yeah...) ♪
(As everyone harmonizes on the "yeahs", Mumble tries to join in, but ends up screeching, interrupting and stopping the singing, momentarily.)
Annoyed Male Penguin: (to Mumble) What's wrong with you?
Mumble: (excited) WOO!
Gloria: Mumble.
Mumble: Yeah?
Gloria: It's better you just—
Mumble: (embarrassed) Yeah, l know.
Gloria: You listen. You know?
Mumble: Yeah. Sorry.
Gloria: It's okay.
Mumble: Sorry.
Other Penguin: (to Gloria) Sing the song.
Mumble: (to Gloria) You're great. That was great.
(As Gloria resumes singing, Mumble starts tapping to the beat of the music.)
Gloria:
♪ Oh, baby, find me...
(Come on, put your flippers in the air, now.)
Ohhh...
Oh-ooh...
Ahh-ooh...~
I-I'm searching high and low
I'm searching ♯high♯ and low
There's somebody out there who needs to find me
Somebody
Anybody
(Seymour: I'm somebody!)
Find me
(Seymour: Woo!)
I wanna love someone
I'm sufferin' over here
Ahh...~
Somebody to...
Lo-o-o-ve... ♪
(Once again, Mumble screeches out of excitement. Everyone now turns towards him, very annoyed and angered.)
Everyone (except for Gloria): MUMBLE!
Annoyed Male Penguin: (to Mumble) Who do you think you are?!
Another Annoyed Penguin: (to Mumble) Yeah, you're spoiling it for everybody!
Angered Female Penguin: (to Mumble) Take a flying leap!
Another Angered Female Penguin: (to Mumble) Yeah, jump in the lake!
(Mumble looks down and embarrassed from his sudden outburst. He and Gloria lock eyes for a moment. Unlike everyone else, Gloria looks saddened by the fact that he cannot sing with everyone else. As everyone wanted, Mumble excluded himself from the group of graduates entirely by isolating himself on a lonely little iceberg, slowly floating him away from everyone.)
Gloria:
(distant, echoed)
♪ Where is my baby?
Ooh, anybody, find me,
Find me, find me...
Somebody... ♪
(As Mumble floats away, he can hear the distant cheering from the graduates. The scene fades to black. It then fades open to Mumble asleep in the middle of nowhere. The ice suddenly moves, waking him up.)
Mumble: Okay, fellas. Cut it out.
(Something beneath the small iceberg nudges it, almost knocking Mumble off his balance.)
Mumble: (sarcastically) Woah, heheh. I'm completely terrified.
(The shot changes to underwater, where Mumble stands. Something big quickly swims across the camera. This doesn't seem like a prank...)
Mumble: Gloria? Guys?
(It's quiet. Deathly quiet.)
Mumble: G-Get up here, or I'll come in after you.
(The silence is almost deafening...Until a sudden Monster, jumps out of the ice and tilts the iceberg over, forcing Mumble to go in the water to escape from it. He starts quickly swimming away from it, periodically hopping out of the water every now and then. As he tries to escape Rojas, he gets his tail feathers bitten off in the process. Eventually, he hops out of the water with the leopard seal almost eating him. While Rojas lands on his belly, Mumble manages to land on his feet. Perfect landing. This is when we're introduced to the Amigos, a small group of 5 adélie penguins who crowd around Mumble excitedly.)
Nestor: Safe!
Rinaldo: Oh, yeah!
Ramón: You the bomb, bro!
Lombardo: That's a 9.8.
Raul: l give you 1 0.
Ramón: Why?
(As the Amigos compliment Mumble, Rojas attempts to take a snap at them. They all dodge in time.)
Ramón: Oh, no, no, no, come on! Bring it! Bring it on! (turns around and taunts) Kiss my frozen tushy! Kiss it, kiss it!
(Rojas attempts to eat them again. Once again, they dodge. Mumble laughs.)
Monster: (to Mumble) Come here, sausage...l take you with ketchup.
Ramón: But first, you got to catch up!
(All of the Amigos laugh. Rojas then starts flopping towards them.)
Rinaldo: Oh, here he comes! You better move in a half an hour!
The Amigos: (slowly speaking and walking) Let's get out of here...
(For the third time, Rojas tries to eat the taller penguin. Once he misses again, Mumble starts tapping his way towards him. The Amigos take note of his peculiar talent.)
Nestor: (to Mumble) Hey, amigó, do that again.
Mumble: Do what?
Raul: That thing with the—
Lombardo: The "clickety-clickety".
Mumble: Oh...That.
Raul: Yeah, do it.
Lombardo: Come on, come on.
Mumble: (looks back at Rojas, then the Amigos) Well, l just kind of go...
(He taps a little.)
Nestor: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lombardo: Oh, nice.
(Rojas tries to approach Mumble again, but as soon as Mumble looks back at him, Rojas smiles "reassuringly". He re-approaches...)
Mumble: And then this...
(While he taps even more for the Amigos, Rojas approaches him while he's not looking. Once Mumble finishes tapping, the Amigos exclaim in awe. For the fourth and final time, Rojas tries to attack Mumble, but ends up hurting himself in the process.)
Monster: Ouch.
(Rojas turns around and heads back for the water.)
Ramón: (mocking) Oh, the little whisker.
Raul: (also mocking) Aw, look at him.
Ramón: Oh, he's leaving...Oh, wait, that was his face!
(All of the Amigos laugh once more.)
Monster: Remember, dumplings, l know where you live...
Rinaldo: Yeah, it's called "land", lard-face!
Nestor: Flop back anytime, rubber butt!
(All of the Amigos start to leave.)
Mumble: (to Rojas) See you, fatty.
(The Amigos pause for a moment...)
Ramón: (turns towards Mumble) That's cool, "See you, fatty"! Did it take you a while to come up with that one? All right, way to go, tall guy.
Rinaldo: (walks up to Mumble) Give me fin, give me fin.
(The Amigos take their leave while Mumble looks back at where Rojas goes back into the water.)
Lombardo: (rapping) ♪ To the left, to the right I'm getting it, oh, yes, look out, here I go (running out of breath) I got it, I got it, I don't, I had it ♪ (not rapping) Oh, my stomach hurts. l gotta pee.
Ramón: (to Mumble) Oi. Ain't you coming, tall boy?
Mumble: Uh...
Ramón: What, you got something better to do?
Mumble: (hesitates, shakes head) No.
Ramón: Well, then, come along, Fluffy, let's go.
(Mumble looks back one last time before following the Amigos to their home: Adélie Land.)
Lombardo: (to Mumble) Hey, stretch! You like to party?
Mumble: Party? l guess so.
Lombardo: Well, stick with us, baby!
Nestor: Yeah, because we practically own the action here!
Everyone (except Mumble): ♪ MAMBO ♪!
Mumble: Everybody's so..."spontan-you-us"!
Ramón: "Spontan-you-us"!
Raul: And these are the bad times!
Nestor: Yeah, our food chain go loco.
Rinaldo: Everyone a bit down.
Ramón: But it ain't gonna stop no party!
(The Amigos dance a little while Mumble looks at an adélie penguin holding a rock in its beak.)
Mumble: (shocked) Gosh! He's eating rocks!
(The Amigos laugh at his exclamation.)
Nestor: (while laughing) You hear what he said?
Lombardo: (while laughing) "Eating rocks"!
Mumble: But...He had a rock in his mouth.
Nestor: That's no rock, hombré. It's "love stones".
Raul: For building the nest.
Rinaldo: The one with the most pebbles wins.
Ramón: You know, "chika-chika boom-boom"!
Raul: Boom-boom-boom!
Mumble: You're not interested in "chicas"?
(All of the Amigos turn towards Mumble after his question.)
Raul: Hey, hey, hey, you kidding?!
Ramón: Without us, the chicas got no "boom"!
Mumble: Why aren't you collecting pebbles?
Rinaldo: Pebbles, schmebbles, man.
Ramon: We got personality, with a capital Y. Why? Because we're hot.
Nestor: Watch and learn, tall boy.
Ramon: Hey. Hey, baby.
Nestor: Over here, mama. Chicky baby..
Female Adelie: What are you looking at? You looking at me?
Lombardo: Come over here. Come on, mamí.
Rinaldo: You see something you like, yes?
Female Adelie: l don't think so. Not tonight, baby.
Ramon: Oh, don't be so snooty, booty. That's the way...you like it, you like it You want it, I got it Could've had it, you missed it
Raul: Look at the feet, huh?
Female adelie: Where'd you learn that?
Raul: The big guy.
Rinaldo: He from out of town.
Nestor: He with us.
Female Adelie: Do it again. Do it, baby. Show me those flipping feet.
Lombardo: No, no, no. Sorry, girls.
Ramon: Some other time maybe.
Female Adelie: You guys are soft in the head, okay? Let's go.
Ramon: Leave them wanting more, you know?
Rinaldo: Hold back till the season.
Raul: You show them what you got.
Lombardo: Either you got it or not.
Raul: And the Amigos?
ALL We got it!
Mumble: You think l could get some of it?
Raul: Hombre, you've got so much already, you dangerous, baby.
Mumble: You really think so?
Lombardo: You kidding? With moves like yours... ...you must have all the ladies drooling at your feet.
Mumble: l wouldn't say that.
Lombardo: Oh, listen to him. He's so cute.
Ramon: Let me tell something to you. Except for me, tall boy, you got the most charisma of anybody.
Nestor: Put that ego away, Ramón, you're gonna hurt someone.
Ramon: You so jealous. Just a moment. l hear people wanting something. Me!
Mambo Okay, you girlies, Mambo One more time now, mambo Mambo, mambo, mambo
Mambo!
Your turn, your turn.
Oh, get down.
Nestor: Man, this guy is so accidentally cool.
Ramon: Okay, okay. Mama!
Ramon: Help me Mommy!
Come on, Fluffy.
Nestor: Oh, l love gravity.
Ramon: Oh, l feel like reminiscing.
Nestor: Remin-icing?
-lt was too close.
Come on, come on.
Mumble: Hey, guys! Where are we going?
Lombardo: We relocating.
Raul: Placing ourselves elsewhere.
Mumble: But that thing, what was it?
Nestor: How should we know?
Rinaldo: We're penguins.
Ramon: Very little penguins.
Mumble: But where did it come from? lt's so weird, so alien.
Raul: What's he talking about?
Lombardo: I don't know, Some hombre called Elian.
Ramon: l don't know a guy Elian. l knew a guy named Estevan--
Lombardo: Not Estevan, he said Elian.
Mumble: Guys, we have a mystery here. A mind-boggling mystery.
Ramon: So? What are we supposed to do about it?
Mumble: Amigos, we gotta get to the bottom of this thing.
Ramon: Big guy, let me tell something to you. Come close. Don't be afraid. You want answers?
Mumble: Yeah.
Ramon: That's all you need? -Nothing else?
Mumble: No.
Ramon: Then this is very easy. You go see Lovelace.
Raul: Lovelace. Go see Lovelace. Genius, Ramón. You are the man.
Ramon: Thank you. l take a moment for myself.
Rinaldo: Let's go.
Ramon: Bow down.
Raul: You the man.
Ramon: That's enough, l feel your love.
Mumble: Who's Lovelace?
Ramon: Lovelace is the guru.
Nestor: Go see Lovelace.
Raul: He got the answer to everything.
Rinaldo: Everything.
Mumble: Really?
Nestor: Ask him, he never wrong.
Mumble: Really?.
Nestor: Ask him, he never wrong.
Ramón: But first...You gonna need a pebble.
Lovelace (V.O.): Hold it, y'all. I have a warning for the audience. Ladies, please, avert your eyes...Because I've been known to hypnotize. You heard the voice, now you're about to meet the one and only Lovelace, in the flesh...Right here, right now, right on.
(Lovelace is revealed to be a very chubby rockhopper penguin with a six-pack ring holder around his neck, standing on top of a very large pile of "love stones". 8 female adélie penguins also stand on the pile of rocks, four of each on his side.)
Lovelace: The devotion, please.
(The adélie penguin tosses its pebble onto Lovelace's pile.)
Lovelace: Oh, yeah. And now...Your question.
Male Adélie Penguin: Señor Lovelace...My wife has disappeared. ls she alive?
(The 6 female adélie penguins raise their voices and sing in harmony.)
Lovelace: (turns around towards the big icicles) OHH, now! Is she alive, now? Separate the truth from the jive! Speak to me, oh, mystic beings!
(He starts jittering and twitching around until he turns around towards the male adélie.)
Lovelace: Yes! She's happy and you're in her thoughts.
Male Adélie Penguin: ls she with another male?
Lovelace: One pebble, one question. Next!
Male Adelie Penguin 2: Oh, Serene One. Please ask the mystic beings... ...will l ever be as rich as you?
Lovelace: ln your dreams, Jean. Next!
-Go ahead. Go ahead.
Get up there, big guy.
-That's it. Don't be scared.
Lovelace: Gentleman, please! One at a time.
Nestor: We with him.
Yeah, we together.
-He got a beautiful question. Go. -Do it.
Just don't look him in the eye.
Mumble: Have you...Ever been abducted by aliens?
Lovelace: Excuse me? What kind of question is that?! Next!
No, wait, señor.
Mumble: l met a skua once with something like that on his foot, and he said he was abducted by aliens.
Lovelace: This, friend, is my sacred talisman...
(Lovelace starts dancing slowly while holding his "talisman".)
Female Adélie Choir: ♪ Talisman, talisman... ♪
Lovelace: (louder toned) ...Bestowed on me by the mystic beings...
Femalee Adélie Choir: ♪ Mystic beings... ♪
Lovelace: ...during my Epic Journey of Enlightenment......To the Forbidden Shore.
Female Adélie Choir: ♪ Forbidden shore... ♪
Lovelace: OH, say it one more.
Female Adélie Choir: ♪ Forbidden shore ♪
Lovelace: Oh, yeah.
Mumble: Wait, you saw mystic beings?
Lovelace: l hear them! They speak through me! (starts jittering and spazzing again) Oh, yeah. There's a power that makes me stand upon this tower!
Mumble: Did they have front-ways eyes? Did they probe you? Strap you down?
Lovelace: Enough! Did they probe me? (babbling, mimicking Mumble) Too many questions! You don't have enough pebbles, fool.
Mumble: You haven't answered any of my questions.
Female Adélie Penguin: (steps out of the line) How many questions he got? We've all got stuff to ask!
(All of the Adélies start causing a ruckus, pushing Lovelace past his limit.)
Lovelace: (angered) ENOOOUGH! You bring this stranger before me! He doubts my powers! He compares me to a skua! The voices are shrieking in my head. They say, "Lovelace, who is this fool?! Tell him...Tell him to go forth...And multiply!"
(The Adélie Choir gasp in excitement from his statement.)
Lovelace: (calmly, now more seductively) Come to think of it...Why don't we all go forth and multiply?
Female Adélie Choir: Ohh, Lovelace~!
Rinaldo: What he saying?
Lombardo: It's mating season.
Ramón: Already?
Lovelace: l will retire now to my couch of perpetual indulgence. Okay, ladies, who's first?
(He heads behind the huge lump of pebbles with the adélie choir behind him. Mumble, on the other hand, looks disappointed that he didn't get any of the answers he wanted.)
Lovelace: One at a time. Don't touch the talisman, baby, please.
Nestor: Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What about us?
The Crowd: Lovelace, Lovelace, Lovelace!
(Lovelace appears on top of the pebbles again with the female adélies behind him.)
Lovelace: Hear me! There's not enough love in the world. Turn to the penguin next to you, put your flippers up, fluff him up a little bit, and give him a great big hug. (turns around towards the female adélies) Okay, ladies.
(One of the adélies make a "little noise".)
Lovelace: Oh, make that little noise again, girl.
(She does it again, but more distanced. Ramón goes over to Raul and hugs him.)
Rinaldo: Hey, what he got we don't got, man?
Raul: (to Ramón) What you hugging me for?
Ramón: He told me to.
Raul: Get away.
Ramón: No, you like it.
Nestor: Get off him, Ramón.
Ramón: Hey, Stretch, got any stones where you come from?
Mumble: We don't collect stones.
Ramón: You don't? Why not?
Mumble: We live on the ice.
Rinaldo: So how you win the heart of the ladies?
Mumble: Well...We sing.
(Beat. Then all of the Amigos laugh.)
Ramón: Stop! That's crazy!
Raul: You're— You're kidding, right?
Mumble: No. We sing to each other. If someone special likes your song, you know....
Nestor: (steps in front of him, curious) Oh, and you have someone special?
Lombardo: A tall beauty in your dark romantic past?
Raul: Of which you never speak?
Mumble: Well, sort of.
Lombardo: Hey, let's go check it out. Maybe she got some friends.
Raul: l like 'em tall.
Mumble: It's never gonna work.
Lombardo: Hey, big guy.
Rinaldo: It's the loving season.
Nestor: All you gotta do is sing.
Mumble: That's the problem. l can't.
Ramón: You a bird, ain't you?
Raul: All birds can sing.
Ramón: (teasing) ♪ I don't sing like the birdie do ♪
Mumble: All right.
(He tries to sing the song Gloria was singing at graduation night, "Somebody To Love", but fails miserably.)
Rinaldo: What's he doing?
Lombardo: l think he's singing.
Rinaldo: l know singing, that's not singing.
Ramón: Yeah, l heard an animal once do that, but then they rolled him over, he was dead.
Mumble: Yeah. And when she sings, it darn near breaks your heart.
Raul: You in tragic shape, man.
Ramón: Don't worry. We can fix it.
Mumble: We can?
Ramón: Absolutely.
Raul: We can?
Ramón: We can. We can!
Mumble: Really?
Ramón: Yes! Let me tell something to you. Come close. (Mumble leans in) Closer. (He leans in closer) You wanna sing?
Mumble: Yeah.
Ramón: You sure?
Mumble: Absolutely.
Ramón: You making fun of me?
Mumble: No.
Ramón: Then this is very easy.
Mumble: (slight excitement) Really? Gosh, if l could sing, that would change everything!
(The group makes their way to Emperor Land.)
Ramón: You will sing. You just got to do exactly what l say.
Mumble: Okay.
Ramón: Did l say "okay"?
Mumble: No.
Ramón: No. What did l say?
Mumble: Do exactly what you say.
Ramón: Exactly what l say.
(The camera shows the audience an aerial view of Emperor Land. It is that time of the season where the males have to court the female of interest. This time around, the female of interest is Gloria.)
Seymour (O.S.):
(rapping)
♪ Don't push me
'Cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my... ♪
(The shot then changes to inside Emperor Land. Seymour and the other males all try to court Gloria.)
Seymour: (rapping) ♪ It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under ♪
Gloria:
(singing slowly)
♪ Midnight creeps so slowly
Into hearts of those
(Gloria)
Who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand
To a penguin
Who has laid too many bets ♪
Male Penguin: ♪ I'll make love to you...Like you want me to...And I'll hold you tight, baby, all... ♪
(His shot failed. Gloria continues singing.)
( ♪ Gloria ♪ )
Gloria:
♪ The mirror stares you in the face
And says, "Baby"— ♪
(Shake a bon-bon, Shake a--)
♪ It don't work
You say your prayers
Though you don't care
You say your prayers
Though you don't care ♪
Gloria: (not singing) Boys. Boys! Boys!
(The beginning of "A Mi Manera / My Way" starts playing, with Ramon singing in the distance. Almost like a callback to how Memphis and Norma Jean met. Gloria turned to see Mumble singing, but it turns out he was lip syncing because Ramon is actually singing from behind.)
Ramon
♪ Yo sé...se terminó (I know, it was completed)
Nuestro amor (Our love)
Divino... ♪ (Divine)
Gloria: (approaches Mumble) Mumble?
Ramon:
♪ Mis amigos, les declaré (My friends, I told them)
Les diré (I will tell them)
Que estoy seguro ♪ (I'm sure)
Gloria: Mumble.
Mumble: (spanish accent) Oh, hi, Gloria. Hóla!
Gloria: Hóla.
Ramon
♪ Es un hombre (Is a man)
Sin nada más (With nothing)
Si no un Señor (If not a Lord)
Con lágrimas ♪
Gloria: And this is you?
Mumble: (spanish accent) Sure, it's me! You like?
Ramón:
♪ Debe decir (Debe decir) [You read (should say)]
Debe gritar (Debe gritar) Should shout (must shout)]
Debe sentir (Debe sentir)... [You should feel (should feel)] ♪
Gloria: Well, l would. If it were really you, yeah.
Mumble: (normal accent) Well, it is me, sort of.
Ramón:
♪ En la verdad (En la verdad) ♪ In truth (In truth)]
Gloria: (skeptical) Yeah. Turn around.
Mumble: Why?
Gloria: Well, why not?
Mumble: Well....
Ramon:
Luché, gané [I fought, I won]
Sobresali [Excelled]
Lo hice Myyy Waaaay! [I did it My Way!]
Gloria: What do you know?
Mumble: Gloria.
Gloria: Mumble, how could you?
[Ramon stops singing.]
Ramon: Hello. l know size can be daunting, but don't be afraid. l love you.
Mumble: Gloria, please.
Ramon: l love you!
Mumble: Gloria!
Ramon: Gloria!
Mumble: Please, Gloria, wait!
Ramon: Please, Gloria, wait for me!
Rinaldo: Stop it!
Gloria: Mumble, what could you possibly be thinking?
Mumble: l don't know what else to do. Oh, Gloria, no.
Males: Gloria
Gloria
Lombardo: [whispers] Go up there, right now.
Gloria: [sobbing]
Daylight deals a bad hand...
Mumble: Gloria. Gloria. Sing to this. [starts tapping his feet]
Gloria: Mumble, you're embarrassing me.
[Mumble continue to tap dance]
Gloria: Baby...nuh uh, it don't work.
[Mumble hops on to a rock.]
Gloria:
So slowly
So slowly into hearts of those
Who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand
To a penguin that has laid too many bets
The mirror stares you in the face
You say your prayers Though you don't care And says, Baby...it don't work
You sing and you shake the hurt
Dance!
Boogie wonderland
Dance
Boogie wonderland
Midnight creeps so slowly
Into hearts of men Who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand
To a penguin who has laid too many bets
Males: The mirror stares you in the face
Gloria: And says, Baby...it don't work
You say your prayers Though you don't care
You dance and shake the hurt
Dance!
Mumble!
Boogie wonderland
Dance, dance, dance
Mumble
Boogie wonderland
Raul:
Check it out check it out check it out
Yo soy Raul
Pinguino mas cool
Lationo por supuesto
Cien pociento espanol
My brothers
Que
Loco me llama
Una senorita
me siento como unflama
la fiesta para bailar
muchachita
mi corazon tiene dinamita
boom!
exacto
You look so beautiful to me, baby
tu pi pinguino
boo yaka boo yaka
-Mumble.
Hey, Miss Viola.
All: All the love in the world can't be gone -Mumble!
-All the need to be loved can't be wrong -Mumble!
Eggbert: Disgraceful!
Elder: Who do they think they are?
Elder: Where is Noah? This is getting out of hand.
Penguin: Hey, Memphis. It's your boy, Mumble.
Norma: Mumble?
Memphis: Mumble?
Mumble: No, no. No, it's Mambo. O!
Gloria: Baby. They're saying, Mumble.
Elder: Behold, Noah, look! This was an omen from the start and now we have this uprising.
Noah: Stop! Stop! Stop this unruly nonsense! Stop it right now!
(All of the penguins stop upon Noah's command.)
Noah: A little self-control, if you please! You bring this disorder, this aberration, to the very heart of our community! Have you lost your minds?!
(Mumble is the only one who continues tapping until he notices that everyone else stopped and is now looking at Noah.)
Male Penguin: We're just having fun.
Female Penguin: Harmless fun.
Noah: Harmless? It is this kind of backsliding that has brought the scarcity upon us!
Nestor: Excuse me, smiley. Can you speak plain penguin, please?
Mumble: He thinks the food shortage has something to do with me.
Noah: Do you not understand that we can only survive here when we're in harmony? When you and your foreign friends lead us into your easy ways, you offend the Great 'Guin! You invite him to withhold his bounty!
Elder: He rules the seasons.
Elder Two: He giveth and he can taketh away.
Mumble: Wait a minute, Happy feet can't cause a famine.
[The amigos agree.]
Elder: If thy kind of pagan display did not cause it, then what did?
Mumble: l think it comes from outside. Way beyond the ice. There are things out there, things we don't understand.
Raul: Mysteries!
Lombardo: Mind-boggling mysteries!
Rinaldo: Mystic beings!
Mumble: Yeah, aliens!
Elder: He's mad.
Mumble: No, aliens! l hear they're smart!
Elder: He's insane!
Elder: Insane!
Mumble: No, they might be smarter than all of us! Who knows?
Elder: He drove the fish away, now he's ranting this rubbish!
Ramón: [walks up to the elder] Hey, let me tell something to you!
Elder: Don't touch me, you filthy vermin.
(The Elder swats Ramon away as Noah approaches. The Amigos get upset and approach the elder.)
Mumble: Hey! Don't touch him!
Noah: And so it follows: dissent leads to division and division leads us to doom! You, Mumble Happy Feet, must go!
Elder: Hear, hear.
Norma: [approaches Mumble] Don't you take one step, sweetheart! You have as much right to be here as any of these daffy old fools!
(The Elders gasp from Norma Jean's exclamation. Then Memphis steps in.)
Memphis: Norma Jean, I'll deal with this.
Mumble: Pa?
Memphis: Mumble...You must renounce your so-called friends, your peculiar thoughts, your strange ways.
Norma: [hushed, shocked] Memphis!
Memphis: If we are devout sincere in our praise, the fish will return.
Mumble: But, Pa—
Memphis: Listen, boy...l was a backslider myself. l was careless...And now we're paying the price.
Norma: What's this got to do with Mumble?
Memphis: It's why he is the way he is.
Norma: But there's nothing wrong with him!
Memphis: Face it, Norma Jean, our son's all messed up!
Norma: [angered] He's not messed up, you hear me?!
Memphis: Believe me, l know he is!
Norma: How can you say that?!
Memphis: Because when he was just an egg, l dropped him!
(Everyone, including The Elders, gasp in shock and horror. The truth is finally revealed.)
Norma: [distraught] Memphis!
Gloria: Mumble...
Norma: [saddened) Oh, my poor little Mumble!
Mumble: But, Ma...I'm perfectly fine.
Memphis: No. No, you're not, boy. For all our sakes, you must stop this freakiness with the feet!
Noah: Your father speaks wisely. Heed his suffering heart and repent.
Mumble: But it just doesn't make any sense.
Noah: Then your arrogance leaves us no choice!
Memphis: [to Noah] No, wait. [to Mumble] Please, son, you can do this. It ain't so hard.
(Silence.)
Mumble: Don't ask me to change, Pa, because l can't.
Noah: And that, my brethren, is the end of it. [to Mumble] You, begone! [points to the exit of Emperor Land]
(Mumble starts to take his leave, along with The Amigos.)
Norma: Mumble...
Mumble: No, Ma, it's okay. It's okay.
(He approaches Noah.)
Mumble: Let me tell something to you. When l find out what's happening to the fish...I'll be back.
(Mumble makes his way towards the exit, until he is stopped by the sound of Gloria's voice and her herself emerging through the crowd of penguins.)
Gloria: Let me through? Let me through. Mumble, you don't have to go!
Maurice: Let it be.
(The Elders step in front of Mumble, blocking his view of Gloria.)
Gloria: No! No, Dad, this isn't fair!
Michelle: Gloria, listen to your father.
Nestor:
♪ My folks were always putting him down
(Down, down, down...)
They said he came from the wrong side of town
(He came from the wrong side of town...)
They told me he was bad
(So bad...)
But I know he was sad
(So sad...)
I'll never forget him
The leader of the pack ♪
Ramón: We sing the heart of our true friend, Mumble. You are a nation of peeny-weeny, piffling, piccolini, piddly-diddly pouft!
(He kicks the snow towards the direction of Emperor Land, then leaves.)
Noah: Together, we prevail.
All: In the wisdoms, we trust.
Memphis: ...We trust.
Nestor:
♪ Look out
Look out
(Look out...)
Look out
Look out
(Look out...) ♪
(Mumble is exiled from Emperor Land. He and The Amigos slowly walk in the middle of nowhere.)
Ramón: Don't worry, tall guy. My father also called me a pitiful loser. Look how l turn out.
Nestor: You're not helping, Ramón.
Lombardo: He gonna be okay. All he gotta do is find out what happened to the fish.
Rinaldo: How he gonna do that?
Nestor: He think of something.
Mumble: The aliens.
The Amigos: What?
Mumble: I'm gonna talk to the aliens.
Rinaldo: How you gonna find aliens?
Mumble: Lovelace.
Nestor: He don't like you. He don't like you at all.
Mumble: That's okay. I'll appeal to his better nature.
Raul: How you gonna do that? Cruel and unusual punishment?
Rinaldo: Unimaginable torture?
Ramón: Imaginable torture?
Rinaldo: Your singing?
The Amigos: NO!
(All of The Amigos start making fun of Mumble's singing.)
Mumble: Yes, okay. Thank you.
(Later on, Mumble and the Amigos had returned to Adélie Land, the same place where Mumble first met Lovelace. The heaping mound of "love stones" that is now covered half-way in snow.)
Mumble: Lovelace. You there? Lovelace!
Nestor: Lovelace. Lovelace?
(They all walk on top of the mound and find Lovelace standing still in one place with his left flipper sticking out.)
Lombardo: Is this a bad time?
Rinaldo: l know we don't have an appointment, but...
Mumble: Just one question, and l want a straight answer. Where do l find the mystic beings?
(Lovelace stays silent. Mumble kicks a small rock towards him, hitting him in the back. He starts moving a little.)
Rinaldo: Why don't he speak?
(They step closer to him...That's when Lovelace starts making a stressed noise.)
Nestor: Lovelace, you okay?
[As they step closer, Lovelace turns around, revealing that he was choking.]
Raul: Boy, he's possessed.
Nestor: [horrified] Oh no!
Rinaldo: [panicking] lt's a seizure! lt's a seizure! Open the beak. Grab his tongue.
Mumble: No no no. He's choking. That thing around his neck, it's way too tight.
Raul: Well, why didn't you say so?
Rinaldo: Come on, On three. uno, does, tres, cuarto!
[They tug the plastic ring with all their might.]
Mumble: Amigos! Amigos! Stop! You're hurting him.
Ramon: Any better?
Mumble: Lovelace, how did you get that thing around your neck?
Rinaldo: lt was bestowed on him.
Raul: By the mystic beings.
[Lovelace shook his head.]
Mumble: Did-? They didn't bestow it?
Ramon: Oh, come on, he don't know what he's saying.
[Lovelace begins to wiggle his body, saying that he was swimming.]
Mumble: You were swimming and it just got caught around your neck.
Nestor: Oh, no way. He the guru.
Mumble: Lovelace, did you ever actually meet a mystic being? Officially?
[Lovelace shook his head.]
Rinaldo: l knew it! lt's all a lie.
Mumble: But this belongs to someone. lf we could find them, l bet you they could take it off. Show me where you found it. l'm sure they could help us. You and me both.
[Lovelace gets up and starts to tell them where they need to go]
Rinaldo: Two words, three syllables.
Raul: What is it?
Rinaldo: You're dying?
Ramon: No, no, wait. Past, past, your past life.
Lombardo: You're passing gas.
Raul: Ay ay ay. Now he thinks he's an elephant seal.
Lombardo: No, no, no. Go over the mountains.
Rinaldo: Go over the mountains!
Nestor: Through the land of the elephant seals.
Mumble:-Beyond the land of the elephant seals.
Nestor: Beyond the land of the elephant seals!
[Everyone cheers. And so the group began to head their way until Ramon stopped.]
Ramon: Wait.
What?
Ramon: l hear voices.
Mumble: There is a voice.
Raul: Where?
Ramon: There's a little voice on the wind.
Gloria: Mumble!
Adelies: Mambo?
Mumble: Listen.
Gloria: Mumble Happy Feet.
[Looking over, Mumble was surprised that Gloria has followed him.]
Mumble: Gloria?
Lombardo: Gloria!
Mumble: Gloria?
Raul: Hey, you got a stalker. She's obsessed with you, man.
Mumble: l can't believe it's you.
Gloria: Of course it's me.
Mumble: What are you doing here?
Gloria:
All the love in the world can't be gone
All the need to be loved can't be wrong
Mumble: Oh, my.
Gloria: So which way, twinkletoes?
Mumble: No, no, no. lf you come, you may never get back home.
Gloria: Fine by me.
Mumble: Gloria, you have a life back there. l don't. l mean, we don't. Not out here. How can we keep an egg safe? That's if we ever had an egg.
Gloria: Well, l don't need an egg to be happy.
Mumble: You say that now, but what about later when all your friends have eggs?
Gloria: Then l'll have you.
Ramon: Now he's going to pledge his soul forever.
Mumble: Aw, Gloria.
Ramon: Here it comes.
Mumble: l'm a particular kind of guy, the kind of guy who needs his own space. lt's not you, it's me. l'm just not up for a serious relationship right now.
Ramon: What he's trying to do now is he's pushing her away.
Gloria: Mumble.
Ramon: Let's watch the fun.
Gloria: No matter what you say or do, you're stuck with me. Oh, come on. As if you're not totally thrilled that l'm here.
Ramon: Now she got him on the ropes.
Mumble: See, right there is your problem. You think you're irresistible, don't you?
Ramon: l don't care where you're from, that's got to hurt.
Gloria: Excuse me?
Mumble: Gloria's so gorgeous, Gloria's so talented.
Gloria: What?
Mumble: Just because you can hit a few high notes.
Gloria: You got a problem with my singing?
Mumble: No, it's perfectly fine.
Gloria: Fine?
Mumble: lf you like that sort of thing. lt's a little Nana Tootsie for my taste.
Gloria: What?
Mumble: You know, showy, flashy, froufrou.
Gloria: Froufrou?
Mumble: That's right.
Gloria: Ah, Coming from someone who thinks it's cool to jig up and down really fast on the spot... ...like some twitchy idiot.
Gloria: Ugh! You stubborn, hippity-hoppity fool!
Ramon: Right back at you.
Nestor: Amigo, that was a good thing you do.
Ramon: She is going to be so much better off without you. She is going to find a good, steady guy to comfort her......and love her up real good and raise a big family.
Rinaldo: Ramón.
Ramon: And then she's going to let herself go--
Rinaldo: Ramón. He's hurting. He's hurting bad.
Ramon: Oh, listen, listen, don't hold it in or you explode. You got to let it out. You just let it out. You let it out. Everybody, turn away for a moment.
If she leave him now
She take away the biggest part of him
all:
Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo
Don't, baby, please, don't go
Mumble: Please, guys. No more singing.
Ramon: Then she say to me, Enough, you are making me nauseous. So l become silent, almost moody, and you know what she says? You never share. You got to let it out.
Raul: Ramón, come on.
Ramon: Let it out. Let it out.
Raul: Stop it! Let it go.
Ramon: l never had a good relationship in my life.
Lombardo: Give him a hug. Give him a hug.
Ramon: l let it out!
Nestor: There we go.
Ramon: l let it out.
Raul: l know. Get over it.
Mumble: Can you keep going?
[Lovelace nods]
Lombardo: What's that smell?
Rinaldo: lt wasn't me.
Ramon: Hey, Fluffy, we're following you. Get up here.
[They head to the top and sea a huge group of elephant seals.]
Lombardo: So these elephant seals, they're not penguin eaters, are they?
Ramon: l don't know. l believe they are herbivores.
Raul: What?
Ramon: You know, kelp-suckers.
Mumble: Here we go, Lovelace. Come on.
[He and Lovelace jump off the cliff and slid down,.]
Jump in time. Jump in time.
-Okay, let's do it.
-Okay, okay, okay. Ready?
Ramon: l can do this. l can do this. l got to trick myself. Boy, look at that. What?
[He falls.]
Kev: You blokes better be lost, because trespassing's a crime.
Mumble: We're just passing through.
Raul: Yeah. We're with him.
Nev: Oi, You wouldn't be heading over them distant hills and through the blizzard country?
Mumble: lf it's the only way to the forbidden shore, yeah.
Nev: Crikey. You might come face to face with an annihilator.
Mumble: An alien annihilator?
Nev: Too right. Cut you up as soon as look at you.
Trev: Waste every living thing in their path.
Mumble: Could they be annihilating the fish?
Trev: Every living thing.
Barry: Merciless, mate. Merciless. Even if you're a whopping great whale, they drag your sorry carcass ashore, dice you up, melt you down, and turn you into fun food.
Trev: One day you're a big old whale, next minute... ...fun food.
Mumble: Someone's gotta stop them.
Barry: Oh, yeah? What's gonna be your approach?
Mumble: lf l could just talk to them. Appeal to their better nature.
Barry: Beauty. When that crafty little trick pays off, you be sure to let us know, won't you?
Mumble: All right, Lovelace, let's go.
Barry: See you, Lovelace. Your funeral, mate.
Mumble: What's that noise?
Rinaldo: There's no noise.
Raul: No gasping. No wheezing.
Lombardo: Where's Lovelace?
Nestor: Sometimes a brave penguin will just slip away to die.
Rinaldo: Do you think he went to a happy place?
Lombardo: Probably.
Mumble: No, no. l think he went this way. Come on. Let's go.
[They headed toward the adandoned factory.]
Mumble: Lovelace! Lovelace! Hello? ls there anyone there?
Lombardo: No need to shout.
Ramon: Somebody might hear you.
Raul: His feet don't look too good.
Nestor: He rested here.
Lombardo: Now he's on his belly!
Ramon: You don't want to know what he did here.
Mumble: There he is. Lovelace!
Adelies: All right! Lovelace!
Rinaldo: Oh, look at Lovelace.
Mumble: We're here.
Rinaldo: Are you okay?
Raul: Come on, man. Hang in there, buddy.
Mumble: What is it?
[Lovelace pointed to where he was swimming at. Trash items were floating in the water]
Raul: Oh, look. There's one for everyone.
Mumble: Hang in there, Lovelace. l know they're here somewhere.
Ramon: Why would they leave all this behind?
Raul: I don't know.
[A sound of a bell caught Mumble's attention. A shape was swimming toward them.]
Mumble: Hey.
Lombardo: Tell them we come in peace.
Rinaldo: We come in peace!
Adelies: Lovelace.
Oh, buddy, come on.
Rinaldo: Are you okay?
Hang in there, buddy.
[For a moment, they look up as a dark shape emerged from the water]
Ramon: Oh, that's not good.
Nestor: Stay calm. Stay calm.
Ramon: That's not good.
Nestor: Okay, don't stay calm!
Ramon: Panic!
[They tried to run away as another giant shape splash above them. Those things reveal to be killer whales or orcas.]
Rinaldo: Oh, they're making us appe-teasers.
Ramon: They're appe-teasing us!
Raul: We're all gonna die.
Mumble: Whatever you do, stay out of the water!
Ramon: Stay out of the water.: Don't go in the water!
Adeilies: Lovelace, don't go in the water!
[Lovelace is already up on the bell pole, being licked by one of the orcas.]
Rinaldo: Lovelace, hang in there! Hang in there!
Mumble: Get your dirty tongue off him!
[The orca disappears from the water, causing Lovelace in the plastic wings to fall, bounce off the ice and land in the water. Mumble gasps in horror.]
Amigos: No, no, no!
[Feeling frightened for Lovelace’s life, Mumble pushes past the other penguins and jumps into the water.]
Rinaldo: Stay out of the water!
Amigos: Mumble!
[Mumble swims down towards Lovelace, who is struggling to swim to the surface. he desperately to pull him to the surface, only to start to sync with him. Just then, below the water, the killer whale scoops the plastic rings up, bringing mumble and Lovelace to the surface.]
Nestor: They playing birdminton?
[the killer whale burst into surface, tossing mumble and love lays about. Mumble man in the water, but regain his strength and starts swimming towards Lovelace, but is tossed by another orca. The amigo penguins watch with horror.]
Rinaldo: No, it's a show. Dinner and a show.
[the killer whales burst up to the surface, tossing lovelace again. mumble managed to grab onto the plastic rings, but all of a sudden the two are separated as another killer whale bumps into the other killer whale, causing them to fly to the ocean separating them.]
Mumble: Lovelace!
[all of a sudden, the plastic rings become free off of Lovelace, freeing him from the plastic rings.]
Lovelace: Rejoice!
[An orca flings Mumble right into the air.]
Mumble: Lovelace!
Lovelace: Help!
Mumble: Reach out!
[ The two penguins grab each other slippers as they spin around, holding onto one another.]
Lovelace: Thank you, my brother, thank you!
[The penguins land in the water, and they start swimming underwater to get rid of the killer whales. The killer whales follow them, but are unable to catch up with them. The two penguins swim to the iceberg, much to the amigo penguin’s relief.]
Rinaldo: l wasn't scared! l wasn't scared!
Lovelace: Oh, my beautiful brother, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Amigos: Go, Lovelace! You the man! -Go, go, go, go, go!
[with the killer whales, giving up the chase, the two penguins climb up out of the water safe and out of harms way. The penguins clap their flippers and cheer]
Lovelace: Enough! lt's a bad day for you! You dealing with Lovelace now! And my man, Mumble, here.
You tell them, Lovelace.
Lovelace: Begone, demon fish. Adios. Adiamo! That's right. Boo hoo~! You hightail it back to your mamas.
Raul: How did he do that?
Lovelace: Don't make me come in the water. l'll come after your sons and daughters. l'm gonna give you the bad eye.
[just then, a boat comes slicing past, Mumble, and the penguins fall into the water. It turns out to be a boat filled with fish. The penguins resurface and climb up onto an iceberg.]
Lombardo: A whole bunch of them.
Rinaldo: They gonna rule the world.
Lombardo: Ay dios mio.
Mumble: lt's gotta be them.
Nestor: lf it is, l don't wanna know about it.
Mumble: They don't even know we exist.
Ramon: Let me tell something to you. This is the end of the road. lt's over. You did everything penguinly possible.
Lambardo: You found the aliens.
Lovelace: We gonna testify to that.
Raul: We'll tell your whole laughing-boy nation they were dead wrong about you.
Ramon: Now, let's all go back home. Right now.
Lovelace: Right on.
Mumble: Could l ask a favor of you?
Lambardo: Sure.
Ramon: What kind of favor?
Mumble: Could you make sure Gloria's okay? And my ma. And if you see Pa... ...tell him l tried.
Nestor: Okay, what you talking about?
Mumble: l'm gonna stop them taking our fish.
Lombardo: How you gonna do that, Mumble?
[Mumble takes a deep breath and jumps into the water much to the penguins astonishment.]
Mumble: Adios, amigos!
Lombardo: Amigo! He did it!
Nestor: Madre mia. You believe that?
Ramon: How we gonna tell his mama he bring us all this way just to kill himself?
Lombardo: No. He didn't. Look.
[They look down to see Mumble leaping from the water after the boat.]
Raul: [laughing] He loco maniac! First ever flying flipper bird!
[Lombardo glares at him]
Ramon: How tall you think that tall boy was?
Lovelace: Who could say? Taller than anyone. Hey, it's me, Lovelace., formerly known as guru. l'm gonna be telling your story, Happy Feet, long after you dead and gone!
[Mumble starts swimming towards the boat, but the boat keeps coming away from him. He looks back and finds the iceberg gone. Mumble just keeps on swimming until he is unsure if how far the boat is. He discovers that a big load of fish is being scooped up out of the water and noticing he is too late. Mumble leaps up, trying to rip the net and free the fish, only for his beak to slip and falling into the water. he resurfaces and pans and discovers the boat moving away. He tries to get towards the boat, but it comes far from him.]
Lovelace: [narrating] Enraged by their indifference, he followed them long after they were gone from his sight. He ventured further than any of us had gone before... ..beyond all hope of return. Swept up by the great currents, he was carried endlessly across vast oceans.. ..to worlds unknown.
[Mumble is washed up at a nearby beach, unconscious. Some men notice him and he is poked by a large stick. Mumble only raises his eyes and sees men putting him into the truck. He closes his eyes unconscious again. Then bumble to find yourself in a cave, where he shuffles out to discover several other penguins that look just like him but different. He shuffles one penguin.]
Excuse me. What is this place?
You're in heaven, Mumble. Penguin heaven.
ls it anywhere near Emperor Land?
lt's wherever you want it to be. Try the water, Mumble. lt's really real.
[mumble jumps into the water, only to hit the glass when he swims around. Surprise mumble, tries again and discovers that he is in someplace and surprised he begins to guest her around seeing real humans for the very first time.]
Lovelace: [narrating] I heard tell, when he finally saw aliens up close, they were just as the skua had described.
Excuse me. Why are you taking our fish?
[but however, the humans don’t hear him]
Lovelace: [narrating] Big, ugly penguins with feathers on their fat, flabby faces.
Why are you taking our fish? You're kind of killing us out there. No! No, wait! Oh, my. Hello. Hello from Emperor Land. Good afternoon. Why are you taking our fish? l'm sure you don't mean to, but you're causing an awful lot of grief. Am l not making myself clear? I'm speaking plain penguin. Penguin! Don't you understand? You're stealing our fish. Oh, please, anyone, talk to me! For pity's sake, you're stealing our F-l-S--
[But the humans don’t hear him. He then grows into sadness]
Lovelace: [narrating] After three days, he would lose his voice. After three months, he would all but lose his mind.
[after three days, some fish drop down to feed the penguins. Mumble tastes a fish and discovers after he was so hungry, the humans were kind enough to give him fish. Just that he hears a familiar voice]
So you found the fish, baby.
Ma?
-Hi, sweetie.
Ma.
[mumble’s eyes brighten seeing all his family and friends again]
Fluffy, no matter what they say or do, we never stopped believing in you.
So you'll be back soon, right?
Hey, come on. Let him eat.
Go ahead, Mumble. Don't mind us.
But there's plenty for everyone.
lt's okay, sugar. We can wait.
[the mirages slowly started to disappear. Mumble tries to protest to make them understand]
No, no, Ma! Ma! There's lots here. Ma! Ma!
[but mirages are slowly starting to fade away. Bumble tries to ram himself against the glass, but it doesn’t work. His eyes feel with tears, and he bows his head down. The seat compositions to him, standing in front of the ice sadly]
[All of a sudden a little girl comes to him. mumble just turns her away. He starts to remember how the penguins usually gets sent back to Antarctica after they perform such a stunt. He slowly starts to tap his feet until all of a sudden out of enthusiasm, he starts, tapping his feet happily]
-Kids, you gotta see this.
[a huge crowd, gathers and mumbled smiles, realizing he just has to take the courage so that he can follow his dream of dancing. Soon he is released in the Arctic, which he happily sees all the penguins once again, and his mother]
He's on now.
Penguin female: Isn't that the fellow with the wacky feet?
Penguin: Looks like.
Penguin: What was his name?
Penguin female 2: l thought he was dead.
Penguin: Apparently not.
Mumble: Everybody, listen up! I've got big news. l know who's taking the fish!
Penguin: Yeah, and they took his brain.
Mumble: It's the aliens. l made contact with them.
Penguin: The lunatic is back.
Mumble: The aliens are taking our fish.
Penguin: Someone ought to fetch Noah and the elders.
Gloria: Hey, you.
[Mumble looked up to see Gloria and Seymour.]
Mumble: Gloria.
Gloria: Kind of weird, seeing you again.
Mumble: Yeah.
Seymour: Everything cool here, baby?
Gloria: You remember Seymour.
Mumble: Yeah. Hi, Seymour. So which one is yours?
Gloria: All of them. This is our singing class. He teaches rhythm. l teach the blues.
Mumble: So you're not--?
Gloria: l guess l never heard the right song.
Mumble: That's great! l didn't mean.... l found out who's taking the fish. They're big and kind of ugly, but, Gloria... ...the things they can do. They're coming here.
Gloria: Oh, is that so?
Mumble: They'll be here soon. l think they wanna help us.
Gloria: So now you speak with them?
Mumble: Well, they don't speak penguin, but they seem to respond to this.
[Mumble begins to tap dance.]
Penguin: What's he doing?
Penguin male: You gotta be kidding me.
Mumble: l suggest we all do it. lt really gets their attention.
Gloria: And why would it do that?
Mumble: Beats me, but it works.
Penguin: Hey, it's the hippity-hopper.
Penguin: Freaky feet!
[Meanwhile, Norma heard everyone and saw that her son has come back.]
Norma: Boys, boys..
[The Amigos who are in the snow pop up.]
Ramon: Fluffy.
Nestor: Tall guy.
Rinaldo: Stretch!
All: Amigo!
[mumble hugs, his friends and lovelace waddles towards him before hugging him out of gratitude]
Noah: So you dare come back?
Male Penguin: He says he's found aliens and they're taking our fish. He says that they're coming and we all have to do this.
Noah: There be no such thing as aliens!
Gloria: Mumble, turn around.
[Mumble turns around revealing a tracking device on his back. The penguins gasp in amazement.]
Penguin: lt's a disease.
Gloria: ls that from them?
Mumble: Yeah. But don't be afraid. l think it's a way to find me, that's all.
Noah: You led them here? You turned them on your own kind?!
Gloria: Wait a second, you just said there's no such thing as aliens.
Noah: Well, there's not. But if there were, only a traitorous fool would bring them here.
Mumble: But they have to come. They're the ones taking our fish. They can do something about it.
Noah: None but the Great 'Guin has the power to give and take away.
Mumble: But The Great 'Guin didn't put things out of whack, the aliens did.
Noah: A fool returns this day to mock our suffering. We are starving and he wants us to hippity-hop. So do we hold fast to our ways or do we bend to the fetid fantasies of a dancing fool?
[Even though the penguins could respond, they heard a beeping noise, coming from the tracking device.]
Penguin: Say, how does that feet thing go again?
Gloria: Yeah, show us, Mumble.
Mumble: Oh, it's really quite easy.
Noah: No, no! No, you must resist!
Mumble: That's right.
Eggbert: Resist! Stand your ground!
Noah: Stand your ground against this folly! Raise your voices, brothers. Cry out in defiance of this jiggity-joggity!
Mumble: Show me what you got.
Gloria: You got it.
Seymour: Come on! Work, work it.
Noah: Yes, yes! Call on the wisdoms! Let the world tremble! For when all others leave...
Elders:...we remain!
[Nroma and the Amigos arrive.]
Norma: Mumble! Mumble!
Mumble: Mama? Amigos. Oh, Mama.
Norma: Oh, my boy. My gorgeous boy.
Mumble: Oh, Mama.
Raul: Look at him.
Norma: You're so dazzling.
Ramon: Oh, Fluffy.
Nestor: We waited and waited for you.
Ramon: Oh, yeah.
Mumble: Where's Pa?
Raul: Believe me. You don't wanna see your deadbeat dad.
Norma: Your pa is sort of....
Mumble: What?
Norma: Come on, l'll show you. Memphis? Memphis?
Mumble: Pa?
Memphis: Mumble? ls it truly you?
Munble: Every last bit of me, Pa.
Memphis: l thought....
Mumble: Pa?
Memphis: There ain't been one day... ...not one day, that l done right by you.
Mumble: Oh, Pa.
Norma: Dance for him, Daddy. Dance with your boy.
Memphis: You'll have to forgive me. The music's gone clean out of me.
Mumble: No, it hasn't. lt's just like singing with your body.
Norma: Come on, baby. We can do it.
Memphis: Oh, Mama.
Mumble: lt's just one big old foot after the other. That's it.
Yeah.
Mumble: Yeah, see?
Memphis: Well, that feels good.
You don't have to be beautiful
Norma: Yeah, Memphis.
Memphis:
To turn me on
I just need your body, baby
From dusk till dawn
You don't have to be rich to be my girl
Norma and Memphis:
You don't have to be cool To rule my world
Ain't no particular song I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your...
[The beeping started to go faster and the penguins saw that wind is blowing, coming this way. All of the Elders had stopped singing and saw a helicopter fly above them.]
Elder: Holy flock!
[The helicopter lands on top of the cliff as everyone watched.]
Ramon: Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.
[The humans come out of the helicopter and stare at the penguins.]
Memphis: l think you better dance now.
[Mumble smiles.]
Man: First, there was just one. Now there's thousands.
Man 2: Are they trying to tell us something?
-What's the problem?
-We're messing with their food chain.
We've gotta do something.
-We suggest a ban on all marine harvesting.
Too much money. Too many jobs.
Woman: Why should we do anything at all?
They're just a bunch of flightless birds at the bottom of the world.
l don't wanna live in a world without penguins.
What are we gonna do about it?
Bang up the sign No Fishing.
Lovelace: ls equal to the love... ...you make. Oh, baby. Right on.
Looking back on when I Was a little nappy-headed boy
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder How I keep from going under
Bring it on! Go ahead!
Even though we sometimes Would not get a thing
We were happy with The joy the day would bring
I wish those days Would come back once more
Come back those days, those days Come back, don't go
Come here, babe. Come on back.
Come on back
-Come on back -Come on back
-Come on back -Come on back
I love them, I love them
I love them, I love them
Those days, those days Those days, those days
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