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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (201302)4/2/2007 8:14:40 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) of 793677
 
I watched Happy Feet last night with my daughter.

About the first 2/3 was good, with some good music. The theme initially was the noncomformist penguin who couldn't sing, and was banished from the colony.

Last third of the movie was truly disgusting. Turns out there was a shortage of fish, and no one knew where they'd gone. Little Mumbles the Banished Penguin goes off on a quest to find out why and finds out "aliens" [read: People] have so overfished antarctic waters that there is no fish for the little penguins. He eventually gets carried to a far shore and ends up in a zoo. After he does his tap dance routine (remember, name of the movie is "Happy Feet") the kind zoo people turn him loose with a transmitter.

Mumbles swims back to the colony and tries to tell them that its the aliens who have taken all the fish. No one believes him. Then a helicopter comes in for a landing. All of the penguins do a tap dance and so amaze the people that the people get interested and look into it and figure out that the penguins are endangered due to overfishing.

World leaders and UN are brought in and eventually a total fishing ban is imposed in antarctic waters and all is good again in the penguin world.

As I said, the movie is truly disgusting and tries to indoctrinate the little kiddies that People = Bad Polluters and destroyers of the earth. No matter how much my daughter protests, I shall not be buying this movie.
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