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Happy Feet

Play trailer Poster for Happy Feet PG Released Nov 17, 2006 1h 48m Kids & Family Adventure Musical Comedy Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Mumble (Elijah Wood), a young emperor penguin, lives in Antarctica. Like others of his kind, he needs to be able to sing to attract a mate, but he has a terrible voice. Instead, Mumble must express himself, and lure a female through his amazing talent for tap-dancing.
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Visually dazzling, with a thoughtful storyline and catchy musical numbers, Happy Feet marks a successful animated debut from the makers of Babe.

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Sukhdev Sandhu Daily Telegraph (UK) Miller ensures that a conceit - dancing penguins! - that might have seemed best left to the jokey attachments that clog up email inboxes is supple enough to carry a sardonic parable about the hypocrisy of Western consumers. Apr 2, 2019 Full Review David Edelstein New York Magazine/Vulture You should see Happy Feet -- not only because it's stupendous, but also because it features the best dancing you'll see on the screen this year. Jun 29, 2007 Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Stands at the very top of the 2006 animated kid's film class. Rated: A- Apr 10, 2007 Full Review Edward Porter Sunday Times (UK) George Miller’s film boogies its way through an entertaining tale. Feb 27, 2023 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Steve Martin said it best, 'I'm getting Happy Feet!' Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 10, 2020 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens A surefire Oscar contender, come on and join the fun! All singing! All dancing! All penguins! Come 'on and get happy! Nov 13, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Blu B The poster is so misleading in a sense because this film is only what you'd expect....maybe 30-40% of the time? The rest is like a bizarre New Hollywood style musical, a post apocalyptic Mad Max adventure, and a enviormental family message. The first half is just so bizarre pacing wise. I truly don't know how else to describe it. The music is just alright honestly. It's Prince, Hip Hop, 70's, tap dancing numbers, and sometimes I don't even know. It doesn't gel together at all and feels so random. The animation isn't bad but man sometimes it looks like a 90's Playstation cutscene. Than the dance numbers can just be bizarre and so frantic and random out of nowhere. The pengiuns are difficult to tell a apart because they blend in together. The voice acting is ok but it's a mess. Some are too voer the top, sterotypes more than characters, forgettable, bizarre, or good. You truly never know with this. Editing is and pacing isn't bad. This is a stronger film in the second half when it stops with the musical numbers and jumpy/disjointed storytelling. The visuals on the adventure can be stunning to look at. The imagination with the human settlements are a really creative mixture of Mad Max and seeing it from a animals perspective. The main crux is in the first half. It struggles so much with trying to balance the musical numbers with the devlopment and story. It feels like well take a complete off road turn and completely forget about what we were doing ebfore and why it leads to the next thing on top of being bizarre. This feels like two seperate films a happy little kid dancing penguin film, and a serious enviormental message adventure done Mad Max style for kids and it never in the slightest makes them work well. The only reason the storytelling gets a lot better is because it stops with the music completely once on the adventure. If that part wasn't in this, this would be a terrible film.It just finds a rhyhtm and does make it work and tie the dancing in a weirdly kid friendly bizarre way that makes sense and is crazy original but just...man it doesn't justify how crazy the first half is. I'll say this if your a die hard animated fan or LOVE penguins or any voice actors here maybe take a look but just know going into this is nothing like what you expect it to be or how it's advertised. Also, George Miller fans might get a kick out of how creative and bizarre this can be. I'll give him this, he tried something "different" and it....sort of works. Can't say they didn't try with this. The penguin dancing is adorable though lol. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/08/25 Full Review Francesco P Molto danzante ma non un capolavoro Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/29/25 Full Review Abbott V. This animated original from director George Miller uses jukebox themes and tap dancing sequences! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/07/25 Full Review Stephen C LOL, the 6th winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring Robin Williams as one of the greatest film voices of all-time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG for Some Mild Peril and Rude Humor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $198,000,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/14/25 Full Review Kobi A Astonishingly bad. There is no story structure, the characters are either flat or annoying, random plot points and themes are piled on top of each other with no rhyme or reason, the character designs are unappealing. I thought Brave was the worst Best Animated Feature winner for sure, but leave it to this movie to prove me incredibly wrong. I can't even believe this is a real movie. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/25 Full Review Barbra B Make happy feet 3 and 4! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Mumble (Elijah Wood), a young emperor penguin, lives in Antarctica. Like others of his kind, he needs to be able to sing to attract a mate, but he has a terrible voice. Instead, Mumble must express himself, and lure a female through his amazing talent for tap-dancing.
Director
George Miller
Producer
George Miller, Doug Mitchell, Bill Miller
Screenwriter
Warren Coleman, John Collee, Judy Morris, George Miller
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co
Warner Bros., Kennedy Miller Productions, Village Roadshow Prod.
Rating
PG (Some Mild Peril|Rude Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Adventure, Musical, Comedy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 17, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 30, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$198.0M
Runtime
1h 48m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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