Happy Feet
Last Saturday my officemate Yvette and I watched the movie Happy Feet @ Robinsons Place Manila. We left the office around 3:00 PM for the 3:50 PM screening. When we the entered the movie house its full packed, we had difficulty finding a seat. I overheard children at the back accompanied by their parents to watch this movie. The movie is a children’s tale about a young penguin with an unusual gift and his adventures in Antartica. Happy Feet is a new computer animated family film that is quite simply the most bizarre thing in Antartica. Is the movie offer something good? Well I will think twice before giving you my answer to this question. The posters and trailers are selling the movie as a feel-good comedy for the toddler set. It’s not. The story begins in the Antarctica with two Emperor penguins named Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman) who fall in love and have an egg. As the females leave the flock to feed on fish, the males stay behind to provide nurturing warmth for the eggs. A slight mishap occurs causing the egg to momentarily slip away from Memphis grasp. Hoping that no internal damage was done to the egg, Memphis curiously awaits his offspring’s hatch. In the great nation of Emperor Penguins you are nobody unless you can sing as it turned out Mumble (Elijah Wood) was born the worst singer in the world. He was born dancing to his own tune….. tap dancing.
I was kind of hoping that this would be the singing/dancing penguin equivalent of David Cronenberg’s Crash. So 1.5 hours of penguin movie would have been fine with me. And it starts that way, but then veers off into all kinds of directions, for better and for worse. Here are some of those: They comment on pollution and the depletion of the ocean’s fish by humans from de-fishing the ocean, he winds up in a zoo, he losses his mind, he meets a mystical penguin guru, he gives everyone dance lessons, and then real humans are superimposed into the action. It zigs and zags into a lot of different places you’re not expecting. Entertaining throughout. But trippy. If you are looking for fun just pure fun, go watch Happy Feet.
I was kind of hoping that this would be the singing/dancing penguin equivalent of David Cronenberg’s Crash. So 1.5 hours of penguin movie would have been fine with me. And it starts that way, but then veers off into all kinds of directions, for better and for worse. Here are some of those: They comment on pollution and the depletion of the ocean’s fish by humans from de-fishing the ocean, he winds up in a zoo, he losses his mind, he meets a mystical penguin guru, he gives everyone dance lessons, and then real humans are superimposed into the action. It zigs and zags into a lot of different places you’re not expecting. Entertaining throughout. But trippy. If you are looking for fun just pure fun, go watch Happy Feet.
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