Happy Feet
- Director: George Miller; Warren Coleman
- Writer: Warren Coleman; John Collee
- Producer: Bruce Berman; Graham Burke
CGiii Comment
If you want to get a message across to those that matter - then, this is how you do it...influence those tiny minds.
Okay, everyone is going to scream that putting Happy Feet in CGiii is ludicrous - a classic case of reading everything into nothing?!?
Watch it, really...it is very political.
Mumble is a poof...camp as camp can be and with infinite references to classic cinema, there is no doubting the way this penguin swings.
So...hang your head in shame at simply dismissing this genius as childish.
A deserved Oscar winner - directed by the Mad Max man - the messages are loud and clear and joyous - stop the discrimination, stop the exploitation, wise up you old farts and DANCE.
Bloody brilliant.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However, Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean, thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis, says it "just ain't penguin." Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria, 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. Mumble is just too different--especially for Noah the Elder, the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community.
Cast & Characters
Carlos Alazraqui as Nestor;
Lombardo Boyar as Raul;
Jeffrey Garcia as Rinaldo;
Johnny A. Sanchez as Lombardo;
Robin Williams as Ramon / Lovelace;
Elijah Wood as Mumble;
Brittany Murphy as Gloria;
Hugh Jackman as Memphis;
Nicole Kidman as Norma Jean;
Hugo Weaving as Noah the Elder;
Elizabeth Daily as Baby Mumble;
Magda Szubanski as Miss Viola;
Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Astrakhan;
Fat Joe as Seymour;
Alyssa Shafer as Baby Gloria