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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Happy Feet (Full Screen Edition)
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Peter Carroll, Richard Carter, Savion Glover, Nicole Kidman, Anthony LaPaglia
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391120889
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-03-27
Running Time: 108
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Editorial Reviews:
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In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you're nobody unless you can sing - which is unfortunate for Mumble (ELIJAH WOOD), who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune...tap dancing. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria (BRITTANY MURPHY), happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange "hippity- hoppity" ways. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins - the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon (ROBIN WILLIAMS), the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru (also voiced by ROBIN WILLIAMS), a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and the Amigos, Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and, after some epic encounters, proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I think kids would be bored with this film. I think it's more focused on an environmental issue
Comment: Musically, this isn't for kids. That should have been figured out by everyone right away. Many of the songs (many which are sexually suggestive) are 20 to 40 years old anyway. The kind of music that we use to listen to when we were kids. But, to me, I'd rather our kids listen to sexy songs instead of today's angry songs.
And one moment in the film Mumbles is being singled out as if something is wrong with him because he's different. This could have been a discussion similar to telling a child that he's wrong for being gay.
But, the entertainment of this musical film changes when it suddenly becomes a message about our endangered environment. We're taking away all the fish so the penguins are having a harder time to survive. In my opinion, the best way to reduce the amount of starving penguins in this world is to hunt them too. I wouldn't mind trying a penguin sandwich, or try penguin soup. And how would we prepare a meal with a penguin? Should it be broiled, boiled, or fried? Or steamed penguin meat with broccoli on rice? How about breaded and fried, and dipped in Ranch dressing? I wonder how penguin meat would be on a cracker with cheese. Umm, how about penguin enchiladas? I'd be happy to try anything on my plate if it would help to balance our ecology.
"I'd like to have one McPenguin burger with fries and a coke, please." Maybe we can give the fish a break and try eating more penguin. Could that help the environment?
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Summary: Awesome Penguin movie
Comment: This is one of my favorite movies. My 6 year old and I watched it probably 50 times, no exaggeration. The look of this movie is really impressive. It doesn't look like a cartoon, it looks real. The penguins look real. It actually looks like real penguins talking, singing, and dancing, and of course walking around and swimming, etc. Penguins are beautiful animals. A lot of things in the movie are factual. The way they care for the egg, and how the males huddle in the cold dark antartic with the egg on their feet, and take turns on the outside of the huddle, etc.
Most of the movie takes place in Antartica, and just a bit where Mumble finds himself in a zoo.
I thought the movie also had some really good "messages", and not just the environmental one.
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Summary: it'll get better later on, it can't be this bad the whole way through...
Comment: That's what I told myself as the film unfolded in all its lameness:
- the adult penguins are incredibly ugly (and not in a cute way), I figured the movie would quickly move away from them, but no, they kept showing up
- the hordes of black and white penguins in an arctic environment, way too much white, and the huge numbers were offputting, I was counting on the action to move somewhere else, a tropical island, etc. (I don't care about realism in kid films, I want entertainment). But no, WAY too much of the movie was just penguins on ice, and huge crowds of ugly penguins
- even the main character Mumble, he was halfway cute as a kid but then he quickly grows up into this rather uninteresting, not very cute penguin
- the music was mostly cheeseball
- the plot was scattered, trying to be a modern version of Dumbo but failing, some of the chase scenes were way too scary for small kids
This is the worst kids DVD I've ever bought. My mistake, don't let it be yours!
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Summary: The Good, The Bad & The Elephant Seals ...
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The good:
I really liked the overall story of the plight of the penguin. The outcast going on the odyssey and then returning home with a hero's welcome.
Children **really** love this movie.
The music was well done and many very nice, but not too overplayed hits were threaded delicately into the soundtrack. I would've loved to have heard more than just a few bars of K.D. Lang's version of 'Golden Slumbers', but I guess that's what the soundtrack is for.
I thought Robin Williams did good work as Ramon here. I will revisit his contribution in the next section as well.
This movie had a very subtle message of conservation that wasn't preachy or contrived.
It was funny to listen to the King of Steampunk voice the King of Rock n' Roll. I think his penguin Elvis definitely breaks new ground with with old ideas about the King's voice.
Steve Irwin would've loved this movie.
The bad:
I felt the scene that's added in the extras titled: 'Mumble meets a Blue Whale' should've been added into the film for all the reasons that the introduction to the clip stated. I found it odd that Robin Williams could have multiple parts in a film but it was a bit much to have the seagull version of Steve Irwin doing a parody of himself which was very touching. The scene with the elephant seals was dull and difficult to pick out the dialogue. Steve Irwin should've been given his moment in this as this may have bee the last major motion picture that he was attached to.
Robin Williams having two very large parts within the film was not just disconcerting but off-putting. While I did like the character of Ramon, I couldn't get around the thought that Williams was probably taking bread off the table of another actor. Cedric the Entertainer comes to mind as well as Bernie Mac. I think Bernie would've been fantastic in the role of Lovelace and it even seems written for him.
Also, while we're meant to rightly assume that the narrator is Lovelace, the narration is almost a role in itself as you're left guessing which character it is because he has multiple speaking parts. So chalking up three jobs seems very much over the top.
Overall:
I really enjoyed the film and think most others will as well. The points I make are minor ones that the bulk of children wouldn't even give two shakes about. My thoughts about Robin Williams role in this has been repeated quite a bit in many of the other reviews. It looks very good in HD / Blu-Ray as well.
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Summary: Everything Fantastic!
Comment: Just a short review this time. Animation, sound, music & story just all come together. Had to watch it a second time within a few hours of the first viewing to really make sure it was as good as I thought it was the first time. This a.m. the smallest members of the family were over and gave it to them, so am now ordering my second copy for myself which I will hide away for just Dan & me to enjoy. The kids were going right home to watch it, so can't wait to hear what they think of it.
Mark Zimmerman - the Bipolar Bear!
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