Happy Feet

It was at least a different kind of a movie. They do look cute. They looked pretty funny dancing.

When a young penguin is born to a colony that communicates largely via song, I felt its pain. Not only because of the endless set piece numbers Mumble has to endure, but because hes completely tone deaf. Indeed, as Cynthia Erivo might have said, he couldnt carry a tune in a bucket. He can, however, dance. Boy can he dance. Thats no use though as his love interest Gloria has the voice of an angel and the curmudgeonly (and Scottish) elder Noah blames their sudden paucity of fish on this youngsters inability to croon. Now shunned by his own tribe, and thanks to an encounter with a lithe and fearsome leopard seal, he is befriended by some more Hispanic guins and off they set to seek the sagely advice of Lovelace. He claims that he was the victi...