Happy Feet

[Drunk Monk]

Yeah, I know, I know. Greg makes it to the premiere of Casino Royale. Dm makes it to Happy Feet on opening weekend. No surprise there, eh?

I thoroughly enjoyed Happy Feet. It's the best CGI film I've seen all year (although I still haven't seen Cars). The misfit makes good theme worked rather well and took a sharp global turn that I should have seen coming but didn't, and the turn was appreciated. The music was hilariously cheesy and we all know how much I love cheese. Who can resist dancing singing penguins? Not I. Loved the antartic imagery, although the cinematography kept swirling about to show off the gazillions of penguins and that got to be a bit too much. There was some nice unexpected themes of orthodoxy vs. rebellion/innovation, parent/child relationships, aliens, environment and disco, but nothing so heavy handed that the message slowed down the film. Robin is snappy funny, as always. Elijah is bug-eyed and on another quest. Nicole and Hugh were unrecognizable and in great voice. This might be one to invest in for the library. T liked it but was frightened by the seal. At first, she said she prefered Flushed Away, but then after thinking about it, she decided the seal's fate was really funny, especially the (semi-spoiler) butt wagging and the slow motion runaway scene, and now thinks Happy Feet was superior. Several kids were tapping their way through the credits. I took my mom and dad too; mom kept asking me if they had to draw all those penguins.

[Drunk Monk]

...three weeks in a row.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

they are just a product of a leftwing agenda! At least that's what the pundits on Fox are saying. It's a subtle (or not) message about global warming and how it's the republican's fault. But then isn't everything?

[cranefly]

This movie makes for a magnificent metaphor of Dianetics, where your nature is largely shaped by your experiences in the womb -- or egg.

Okay, I'll stop being silly now.

It was a very decent movie with some surprisingly emotional scenes. When the seal appeared, I thought, Holy shit! This is going to scare kids to death! It had some very dark moments toward the end and probably should have ended dark. But of course that wouldn't sell.

I keep wondering what Gene Kelly, Sammy Davis Jr and other tappers would have thought of the movie if they'd had a chance to see it.

I found it strangely funny that the mother and the girlfriend -- the two sexually-appealing "ladies" -- had narrow waists.

Now I have this powerful urge to go to the South Pole and corset all the penguins.

--gary

[Drunk Monk]

...but the scene after the seal when frodo penguin met his new friends instantly dissolved any tension with laughter. That scene turned out to be the one that T would repeat over and over as her fave.

Considering that mom was Nicole Kidman and gf was Brittany Murphy (voice of Luanne in King of the Hill) DM is not surprised at all with CF's corset mission.