Happy Feet

2006
PG
1h 48m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

204K

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Animal Adventure Computer Animation Jukebox Musical Adventure Animation Comedy Family Music Musical Romance

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

204K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,914

670

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Won 1 Oscar
- 20 wins & 26 nominations total

Mumble
(voice)

Brittany Murphy

Gloria
(voice)

Hugh Jackman

Memphis
(voice)

Robin Williams

Ramon
(voice)
…

Carlos Alazraqui

Nestor
(voice)

Lombardo Boyar

Raul
(voice)

Jeffrey Garcia

Rinaldo
(voice)
(as Jeff Garcia)

Johnny A. Sanchez

Lombardo
(voice)
(as Johnny Sanchez III)

Nicole Kidman

Norma Jean
(voice)

Hugo Weaving

Noah the Elder
(voice)

Elizabeth Daily

Baby Mumble
(voice)
(as E.G. Daily)

Magda Szubanski

Miss Viola
(voice)

Miriam Margolyes

Mrs. Astrakhan
(voice)

Fat Joe

Seymour
(voice)

Alyssa Shafer

Baby Gloria
(voice)

Cesar Flores

Baby Seymour
(voice)

Anthony LaPaglia

Boss Skua
(voice)

Danny Mann

Dino
(voice)
…

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Trivia
Initially, Prince refused to allow the use of his song, "Kiss", for the film. However, after seeing footage of the film, he not only changed his mind and allowed the song to be used, but also wrote an additional original song for the film to use in the closing credits.

Goofs
(at around 11 mins) When Memphis and Norma Jean find each other in the crowd (when the females are returning), one penguin in the center of the screen walks through another penguin.

Quotes
Leopard Seal: Come here, sausage. I take you with ketchup!
Ramón: Yeah, but first you gotta catch up!
[laughing]

Crazy credits
Mumble, Gloria, Memphis, Norma Jean, Noah, Ramón, Lovelace, Mrs. Astrakhan and a baby penguin can be seen tap dancing under the credits while Song of the Heart by Prince is playing.

Connections
Edited into Happy Feet: European Premiere Special (2006)

Soundtracks
Golden Slumbers
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC
Produced by T Bone Burnett
Performed by k.d. lang
Courtesy of Nonesuch Records

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Featured review

6/10

First half is much better than the second

Overall, I enjoyed this movie and don't regret having gone to see it. I feel like the animators, actors doing voices and Savion Glover (hope I spelled that right!) wasted some of their efforts on an inferior-quality script.

I admire the environmental theme, but felt like it was being shoved down our throats .. with no real solutions suggested, either. Some portions of the script were not explained well .. like how on earth Mumbles got back from the zoo to his family. Okay .. and why can't Mumble molt correctly, and why does his face look different from all of the other adult penguins? That's never explained, either.

I laughed and smiled my way through the first half of the movie, and it felt like the second half dragged on endlessly and made little sense. :-< I was expecting to love this movie a lot more than I did.