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Except musically challenged Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood--Lord of the Rings films). In frozen Antarctica, where penguins sing to woo a mate, Mumble's talent is dancing: When his fellow penguins start to croon, Mumble's feet want to move. Even worse, Gloria (voiced by Brittany Murphy), the object of Mumble's affection, only wants to hear a song from Mumble's heart. But when encroaching fishermen threaten the penguins, the colony is saved by Mumble's valor, and Gloria's heart is won by his dancing, Happy Feet. Directed by George Miller (Babe), choreographed by Tony winner Savion Glover and featuring the voices of Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Robin Williams, and crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.
Mumble is an excellent role model, showing integrity, bravery, determination. He's also compassionate, open-hearted, optimistic. He embraces being different and seeks to protect his colony even after they shun him. Gloria is happy, caring, confident. Both parents are loving. Mom accepts her son's difference from the start, but Dad struggles to accept Mumble as he is until the very end. The Adelie penguins are supportive and encouraging, accepting Mumble without prejudice.
Though never referred to as disabilities, Mumble's "happy feet" and inability to sing are treated as such. It's OK, but not great disability representation: For starters, it's harmful that Mumble's disabilities need to be blamed on something (his father dropping him when he was an egg), rather than being shown as a natural occurrence. And the movie doesn't go far enough in modeling positive behavior, as Mumble is only accepted by the colony after he saves them from starvation. As for the rest of the film, diversity is lacking. Most main characters are male, while the two significant female characters are reduced to being love interests. Racial and ethnic stereotypes include all of the smaller Adelie penguins being coded as stereotypically Latino: party-loving, sexually energetic, used as comic relief. A larger-bodied penguin coded as Black comes across as an oversexed, fundamentalist preacher. Two of these characters are voiced by Robin Williams putting on exaggerated accents, reflecting a lack of diversity among the cast. Lastly, the Emperor penguins are given a nonspecific religion that's portrayed as closed-minded. (They use religion to justify banishing Mumble from the colony.)
Parents need to know that Happy Feet is an appealing animated film with catchy music and well-meaning messages alongside some suggestive content and stereotypes. There's sexy talk and suggestive behavior from the very beginning, which the movie justifies through the plotline of penguins seeking mates. Much of this will likely go over most kids' heads, but it could lead to some uncomfortable moments. Young kids might be scared by chase sequences involving leopard seals and killer whales, along with darkly lit encounters with the human world toward the end. The movie deals with environmental themes related to humans intruding on natural habitats, but it avoids the heavy-duty questions of how to solve the problem. Though the movie doesn't specifically refer to Mumble's "happy feet'' and inability to sing as disabilities, they very much are in this context, and the movie is largely about the community coming to accept Mumble as he is. Racial and ethnic stereotypes abound: The physically smaller penguins are coded as Latino and portrayed as party-loving animals, while a bigger-bodied penguin coded as Black comes across as an oversexed, fundamentalist preacher. Still, the movie's messages of integrity, social acceptance, and embracing your own uniqueness shine through. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
BOB MONDELLO: In a world were meeting the penguin of your dreams requires that you croon a tune all your own, little Mumble is at a disadvantage. Other Emperor penguins seem to have no trouble finding their inner song, but his attempts but his attempts sound like fingernails on a blackboard. What he can do though, from the second hid feet touched the ice, is dance.
MONDELLO: Happy Feet is directed by George Miller, who started out making Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies and who later made the kid flick Babe. You could say he's eased into computer animation from the real world, which may be why this movie is so visually breathtaking. Camera crews spent two years finding towering glaciers and craggy Antarctic mountains that they could mesh with their amazingly lifelike animated penguins using a technique called motion capture, the one used to make that Christmas movie The Polar Express. There it made the world look like a storybook. Here it places a storybook fable in a persuasively real world, just one populated by penguins who can tap dance like Savion Glover.
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For all of those cynics that have bemoaned the glut of 3D-animated movies with animals this year, take note: it's all a matter of storytelling, as George Miller (the Babe movies and Mad Max) so persuasively reminds us with Happy Feet (opening Nov. 17, 2006, from Warner Bros. Pictures). And that goes for penguins, too, for that matter. Because there's room for all kinds of different stories revolving around those furry, cuddly, funny and engaging birds.
Having collaborated previously with Miller on the Babe movies, Animal Logic first agreed to do a workshop approach and proof of concept. Warner Bros. then green lit Happy Feet on the basis of this really cute test of a tap dancing penguin in the snow.
"One of the keys is Mumble's individuality amid the community," explains animation director Jeannette, who came from Industrial Light & Magic, where he worked on The Mummy movies and Van Helsing. "One character pitted against thousands of other penguins that don't approve of his dancing. We designed a behavior pattern based on the realism of penguin movement but also taking license with choreography and dance. Even though there are different types of penguins, characters are difficult to distinguish. During the design phase, we made them slightly different in proportion. Mumble has molting and black-and-white fuzz on body to make him identifiable. We also varied the performance through signature walk, facial behavior and voice.
During the events of the second film, The Two Towers, Frodo encounters the creature known as Gollum (Andy Serkis), who once possessed the Ring for centuries and desires it back. Grappling with two conflicting personalities, Gollum alternately aids and plots against Frodo and Sam as they continue with their task to destroy the Ring, eventually turning against them and attempting to murder them both. Originally intending to have the character be computer-generated and have Serkis simply provide the voice-over, Jackson soon decided to have the actor play the part on set via motion-capture, with his facial expressions and physicality also contributing to Gollum's animation as well as his voice. This achievement helped the trilogy win three consecutive Oscars for Best Visual Effects and established Serkis as a motion-capture performance artist. Its innovative use of a real-time motion-capture system also led to many other movies following in its footsteps, including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Avatar.
Miller's revelation that The Lord of the Rings' groundbreaking visual effects are what essentially made Happy Feet possible further solidifies the influence and significance the fantasy trilogy had on contemporary cinema. It also further illustrates Miller's commitment to utilizing special effects in unique ways, with his employment of visual and practical effects in other movies such as Babe and Mad Max: Fury Road showcasing this as well. And with the director working on a number of ambitious upcoming projects, many will likely be eager to see how far the visual effects of The Lord of the Rings trilogy will continue to influence Miller as a filmmaker.
Unfortunately, Memphis is too distracted by his own singing (specifically the love song between him and his partner) and almost as a sign of his lack of faith and commitment to the great Quin, he drops the egg. Doing so for even a few seconds is enough to literally freeze it and kill the offspring inside. Memphis sees the resulting tappity feet of Mumble as being a curse or punishment for his distracted mind and lack of Quin-worship. Something that is evident throughout the film.
Upon revealing that he has alien technology attached to his back, the Elders then label him a traitor for leading the aliens to Emperorland. This of course raises questions as moments ago they were denying the existence of such beings altogether. We then see a battle of sorts between the old ways and the new: the archaic chants and singing of the elders and their supporters vs Mumble and his tapping feet. Eventually the aliens arrive and out of fear of death (or something similar) the elders eventually follow Mumble and support this new approach.
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