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See this movie. I normally don't like musicals or "cute" films. but damn if this wasn't a really entertaining movie. I've seen it three times.

MattSullivan wrote:See this movie. I normally don't like musicals or "cute" films. but damn if this wasn't a really entertaining movie. I've seen it three times.

yup...heard it was #1 at the box office.


I also heard the story and the message it delivers is outstanding.

i guess im going to have to see t...seem to be getting good reviews.....looks cute also...

Oh God. It's SO cute. But in a good, non-insipid way. And all you macho guys too embarassed to go see amovie about cute singing penguins...go! You'll like it, trust me!

I don't know if I count much as macho... but it is a good movie. I've seen it and thought about seeing it again...

Keep in mind that it may be #1 at the box office because it played a Harry Potter teaser trailer in front of it and half the people that went, went for the trailer. We Harry Potter fans are crazy like that. Though I did hear that it was cute.

Towards the end it got a bit preachy ([spoiler]and knowing people, it wouldn't have ahappened the way it did... more that they would have gone extinct in the wild due to high demand by private collectors[/spoiler] ) but it was still nice and fun.

Just because it has a message about the environment doesn't make it preachy. I don't recall seeing the humans portrayed in a negative light at the end, did you?

Don't listen to the right wing neocon jerks who are calling this film a "brainwashing tool" to "subvert" children. It's just a fun movie with a small message about the environment that's all.

Ohnonono, I totally agree with the environmental message, just the way it was presented towards the end was a bit of a too-good-to-happen situation. Preachy might have been the wrong expression to use there.

They threw in an environmental messege? Hmm...didnt see that one coming. Good though. Get those kids educated early!

I didn't like Happy Feet as much as I thought. I was thinking it was going to be something else. It was ok but not great. Plus Mumbo didn't even lose all of his baby feathers in the end, and it was Elijah Wood's voice...cough..... But gotta love Robin Williams!

Usually whenever a non-Disney CG film is in theaters, it never takes the #1 spot because it has to compete with a huge release. Like Madagascar had to compete with Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Over the Hedge with The DaVinci Code and such. I thought for sure the same thing would happen with Casino Royale.

Well, Happy Feet beat it at the box office. Twice!

So of course now the conservatives are coming out and calling it liberal environmental propaganda. Puh-lease! So it's propaganda to acknowledge that Antarctica exists? Just fess up that Disney's paying you to slam this movie so their Cars crapfest can keep the #1 spot for this year, kay?

okay i finnally went a saw this movie..... i admit it was kind of corny at first but i really liked it.....


but anyways is it just me or was a bit of it just plain sad and depressing...... it actully touched me when he was in the captivity scenes.....that was sad...


over all id buy it on dvd...

The coolest thing about this movie though, aside from the Leopard Seal and Robin Williams, was the fact that Steve Irwin did a voice in it. He is the Elephant Seal that says "Crikey" lol. They also have a bit of a "in memory of" for him at the end. Steve Irwin is my hero!!!

This movie hardcore rocks, and I will definitely buy it when it comes out. The people who put it down for having an environmental message that brainwashes people need to be taken out back and shot. Yes that's right. Shot. So what if it gets preachy or tries to say something about saving the environment? Is that neccessarily a bad thing to make people aware of Antartica and how the carelessness of human beings can hurt said environment?

Oh this isn't to say anything against anyone in here I'm not calling anyone out or trying to offend anyone so Doruk Golcu I hope It didn't seem like I was singling you out here by mentioning the preachy thing. I don't wish "taken out back and shot" on anyone here ^_^ It was just a figure of speech anyway but I do get irrate when it comes to critisism for environmental messages. Captain Planet was cheesy and poorly animated but I wish their were more cartoons and shows like it. The reason people get angry at messages like this is because they know it's true what is happening around them and they would rather be ignorant of the facts so they get mad when someone tries to force them to see something they don't want to see and they feel guilty because of it which angers them further. (IMO)

-Neko

Heh, don't worry about it. I am a scientist and I think environment is a big issue. You will have no arguments from me there. I just think, as said before, that the way the issue was presented in the movie was cheesy. So, my gripe is with the filmmaking, not with the message. I enjoyed the film anyway, so it wasn't that much of a sticking point.

To clarify, my biggest problem with it was that [spoiler]the whole world agreed to withdraw their fishing fleets from the antarctic region because of the existence of tap-dancing penguins.[/spoiler] Knowing mankind, such a discovery is more likely to draw the penguins to near extinction due to illegal exotic pet trade Hence, cheesy that people did what they did in movie, even though it is a much better outcome. Alas, we are much more despicable creatures than we were portrayed in the movie (ooooooh, gloom and DOOM!!!)

Theoretically, you could just as well say that Pixar's Cars is conservative propaganda (there's a big speech about what will happen if they have no gasoline in that movie, I recall). What gets me is that nobody pointed fingers at a conservative message, but a lot of people got up in a huff over a liberal one.

Well I agree with you there Doruk Golcu. It was kinda cheesy at that point. Especially when the chopper guys started dancing alond with them lol. Eh well it was entertaining though. I do wish it was that simple! See all these cool penguins, they do cool things, instantly they are saved. Everybody's making phone calls and having board meetings about it. Pretty cool I think.

-Neko

Did you know Steve Irwin was one of the elephant seals?

I heard about that... I think the movie ended up being dedicated to him.

I thought that the film was brilliant. And as for it's ECO message being cheesy etc, The film is aimed at kids, so maybe that form of message gets through to kids better than an hour and a half documentary on global warming.

True enough...

lupine wrote:I thought that the film was brilliant. And as for it's ECO message being cheesy etc, The film is aimed at kids, so maybe that form of message gets through to kids better than an hour and a half documentary on global warming.

It also wound up being dedicated to Seve Irwin. Fun and corny is how he would have wanted it to end.

Too Right!

Hey, quick question: When the first trailer came out, did anyone else have trouble sitting still?

If so, maybe that's their justification for having the dancing penguin ending. Maybe they originally had a more realistic ending, but when they saw how catchy the dance numbers were they figured it was more appropriate to end it that way.

At any rate, who cares; it's still a damn good movie.