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Happy Feet
EMAILPRINTWarner Bros. Pictures
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 142 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family/Kids | Musical
Written by:
Warren Coleman
John Collee
George Miller
Judy Morris
Directed by: George Miller
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 17, 2006
DVD: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes, Color
Origin: Australia / USA
Summary
RATING: PG for some mild peril and rude humor
Starring Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, Brittany Murphy, Hugo Weaving, Johnny A. Sanchez, and Carlos Alazraqui
A tone-deaf, tap dancing penguin proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world. (Warner Bros.)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
In the year of the animated movie, this one soars above them all.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Happy Feet is not only the year's best animated movie, it's one of the year's best movies, period. Go.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
It's a gorgeously rendered marvel that pulls out all the stops to wow its viewers, but in spite of its crowd-pleasing ploys, it holds onto its integrity with a smart and surprisingly deep story.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
What's truly surprising about Happy Feet is not its giddily brilliant entertainment, its intimate knowledge of the culture or its toe-tapping music. It's how commonplace these qualities have become in computer-animated movies… Happy Feet may be just one of the crowd, but what a great crowd it is.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
An animated film that challenges preconceptions about the genre and foregoes the usual romance/adventure structure.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Peter Debruge
In a year rich with animation options, Happy Feet stands head and shoulders above its competition.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
Miller's global harmonizing never feels preachy -- he's too busy cramming Happy Feet with enough entertainment for three movies.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
No film with as many elements as Happy Feet is successful with all of them, and the romantic-emotional elements of this story feel overly familiar. But the music and dancing are fresh and new, and this strong an ecological message has not been seen since Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke."
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
This animated all-penguin musical is terrific fun.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
One of the very best directed animated films on record. Not surprisingly from the force behind the "Babe" movies, the attention to detail is phenomenal, the humor ample.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Antarctica is a beautiful blue paradise, and the final set piece, in which penguins and humans tap their way to a unity of green-minded spirit, is a small masterpiece of conciliatory wackiness.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The constant singing and dancing throughout is charmingly presented, and the CGI recreations of Antarctica are stunning.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
A lot of director George Miller's film is gorgeous and exciting. Its craftsmanship and ambition put it a continent ahead of nearly every other animated feature of the last couple of years.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Happy Feet ends on an upbeat note with singing and dancing, but the weaknesses that precede it deflate the euphoria.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The dazzling animation, catchy songs and Broadway-worthy dance numbers give the film even broader appeal.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The movie's an uncategorizable mixture of the tacky and profound, and on some weird level, you have to respect it.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Don't little ones have enough to worry about without ecological concerns popping up in family entertainment? Happy Feet should have stayed light on its feet.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ethan Alter
It's a movie that keeps flirting with greatness, but settles for being above average.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Offers dazzling cinematic family fun, and a mad medley of tunes.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Mark Bell
Overall, however, for a children's film, it hits all the major notes. Keep it musical, keep it lively, keep it cute and, you know, if you can, slip in a moral.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The essence of this inventive though erratic animated feature is joyous music and eye-popping motion.
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
While compromised by the uplift and affirmation that mainstream animation regurgitates like a mommy penguin, it also shows a remarkable persistence of vision. Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, Mr. Miller can’t help but go dark and deep.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Gianni Truzzi
Unfortunately, once the "be yourself" story line is resolved (singing and dancing go together, who would have guessed?), the film is only half over.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
Funny moments can be found throughout, but it's mostly silly and scattered.
Read Full Review >Empire Helen O'Hara
Small kids will love the waddlesome dancing and colourful animation, but older viewers will likely be disturbed by the story’s darker elements.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This curious ecological parable was directed by George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City), who still has an eye and a sense of humor but on this particular outing can't get the script he wrote with three others to make much sense.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jordan Harper
Children, innocent as they are, may not yet have grown to loathe the actor's (Robin Williams) shtick, but you might like to know that he has two--yes, two--roles in this film.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Let's just say this is a perfect film for penguin lovers who also are devoted members of the Green party - and leave it at that.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 142 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
nick j gave it an8:
An extremely well made movie. It is the best Warner Bros. animation of all time. Maybe I have a soft spot because I am a tap dancer, but this movie really touched me.
? ? gave it a0:
This is, hands down, the worst movie I've ever seen. Why? Ok, 1st, the storyline was trash. A penguin is born, and in this ridiculous world the producers threw together, penguins are supposed to sing.(what?) But mumble, the penguin, dances instead.(what?) So then he get thrown out of the village and he is somehow compelled to tell humans to stop stealing their fish.(what?) So to ensure the story made even less sense, they threw in characters like lovelace, who have nothing to do with the story at all. Oh, and he gets choked later(Wha-a-a-at?). But to ensure the film was even stupider, they bring you non-animated humans in an animated movie. Nice job, I bet you could get a nick jr. liscense with that! Oh yeah, and the humans dance at the end.(What the-!?) Did that make any sense to you? I bet it didn't. It attempted to be funny, but no. The only remotely funny, or entertaining part at that, were the Spanish penguins. And they lasted about 1/8 of the movie. Come on! So with that information, stay away from this movie, or prepare to have 2 hours (or less) of your life to get sucked out of you. I'll go lay down now.
Waldo gave it an8:
This movie is actually pretty great- the animation is beautiful, the music is catchy, the dancing looks very fluid, and although the story feels unevenly paced (all the zaniness happens at the end) and it reaches too far, it's an overall great film.
Keenan S gave it a0:
This is without a doubt, the worst film I have ever seen. I have literally never hated anything as much as this abomination. I hated not just every second of this film, but every millisecond. This film was mind-blowingly horrible in every conceivable way, and had absolutely no redeeming qualities to speak of. If you want a good animated film about the environment, try the rather good Pixar film; Wall-E.
Samuel A gave it a7:
I enjoyed the movie, it did not seem rational in the least bit but entertaining nonetheless. I do however have a question for all you who did watch this movie with such scrutiny, what does ramon mouth at the end of the movie once they are done singing? at the very end once the song and dance is done ramon says something under his breath. I was just curious to see if anyone knew.
jon ch gave it a0:
Happy Feet is the story of Mumble and how he never fits in. Well, it sucked. extremely blatant, it had good effects in all but it was stupid. The humor is weak (I never laughed once). The display of penguins is less fun, and more corky and serious. But this film is for the little kids. This is definitely not suitable. It has content that is innuendo-relaed, sexually-related, and absolutely innapropriate. It also was very disturbing for the younger viewers. And having the humans involved was just lame, at first it was about Mumble trying to prove something, then its all about humans giving penguins the freedom in survival. You can see why it had won the Oscar for best animated film of the year. Its subject is quite big, and it is entertaining, fun, and full of adventure. And they try to base it on the facts of March of the Penguins, but most of us don't care about that. From my opinion, this movie is serious, and not any fun. Overall, it could have been so much better. too make up for this, go see surf's Up, its a great family flick, a lovable and hilarious film. And that movie just makes this one look even worse.
John T gave it a0:
This movie is full of Racial propaganda. All the "cool" penguins had African/American and Latin overtones and accents while all the nasty penguins that gave them a hard time had Scottish (White) dialects. Then we wonder why our kinds form racial prejudices.
