My dad took all the grandkids to see Happy Feet yesterday. We obviously went because herding 10 kids would have been quite impossible for him.
All I can say is WOW! That was really good. I thought I would be bored with a movie about Penguins but it was so funny and so entertaining. One of my nephews, Jason (5), said to his parents after: "I don't think I laughed the whole time." But when my brother aske"thd if he liked it he said yes.
The basic plot is there is a penguin that is injured before birth because his dad drops the egg in the cold. In real life that egg would have been toast but in the movie he has a birth defect: he can't sing. All of the penguins in the movie are more or less talented singers and are supposed to discover "their song". The singing and the music is really good.
Well the main character can't sing but boy, can he dance. Anyway, that kind of behavior is unacceptable penguin behavior.
Anyway, I won't give away too much if you want to see it but he's banished because he prefers dancing to singing and is leading the young penguins astray with this behavior.
Now to the thing that will keep some of you away:
There is more than just a slight metaphor that the penguins are deeply religious (read Christian) and are so ensconced in their extremism that they will not listen to the young dancing penguin nor will they accept him for being different. The lead penguin is a tall penguin with a Scottish brogue. Maybe these are Presbyterians? Early in the movie when the males are all circling around keeping their eggs warm it is really cool listening to him motivating the other male penguins. Well, he comes around to seeing that he's wrong about the "Great Guin" at the end.
The other thing is that it's a bit of a "Quit taking away all the fish in the south and killing the penguins you evil fisherman..." kind of movie and the way it gets around to it is kind of silly.
Anyhow, I can overlook both parts that made me roll my eyes. The penguins, after all, don't believe in the Trinity so the only faith that is shattered is a false faith even if the lead penguins do seem like Christians.
My kids were dancing in the aisles at the end of the movie. The music, dancing, and singing were just SO good. I would watch this movie again by myself without my kids and predict that when it comes out on DVD that we'll be playing that movie constantly for our children.
All I can say is WOW! That was really good. I thought I would be bored with a movie about Penguins but it was so funny and so entertaining. One of my nephews, Jason (5), said to his parents after: "I don't think I laughed the whole time." But when my brother aske"thd if he liked it he said yes.
The basic plot is there is a penguin that is injured before birth because his dad drops the egg in the cold. In real life that egg would have been toast but in the movie he has a birth defect: he can't sing. All of the penguins in the movie are more or less talented singers and are supposed to discover "their song". The singing and the music is really good.
Well the main character can't sing but boy, can he dance. Anyway, that kind of behavior is unacceptable penguin behavior.
Anyway, I won't give away too much if you want to see it but he's banished because he prefers dancing to singing and is leading the young penguins astray with this behavior.
Now to the thing that will keep some of you away:
There is more than just a slight metaphor that the penguins are deeply religious (read Christian) and are so ensconced in their extremism that they will not listen to the young dancing penguin nor will they accept him for being different. The lead penguin is a tall penguin with a Scottish brogue. Maybe these are Presbyterians? Early in the movie when the males are all circling around keeping their eggs warm it is really cool listening to him motivating the other male penguins. Well, he comes around to seeing that he's wrong about the "Great Guin" at the end.
The other thing is that it's a bit of a "Quit taking away all the fish in the south and killing the penguins you evil fisherman..." kind of movie and the way it gets around to it is kind of silly.
Anyhow, I can overlook both parts that made me roll my eyes. The penguins, after all, don't believe in the Trinity so the only faith that is shattered is a false faith even if the lead penguins do seem like Christians.
My kids were dancing in the aisles at the end of the movie. The music, dancing, and singing were just SO good. I would watch this movie again by myself without my kids and predict that when it comes out on DVD that we'll be playing that movie constantly for our children.