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91Earnest messages about bad climate change and good parenting skills have been replaced by a we-all-share-a-planet sense of fun that's more "Finding Nemo" than National Geographic.
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Nov 17, 201188Although it's set on the same frozen continent, Happy Feet Two is worlds away from its predecessor.
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80Everything that happens in Happy Feet Two is good-to-great.
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80This new round of toe-tapping musical numbers from the penguin population is shot in eye-poppingly gorgeous 3D.
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75Pitt and Damon deliver the best lines (wisecracks about the food chain, predators and evolution, etc.) but their characters also represent most of us.
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75In some ways, it's a more grown-up story than Happy Feet, with more complicated messages delivered in subtler ways.
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63For me, Happy Feet Two is pretty thin soup. The animation is bright and attractive, the music gives the characters something to do, but the movie has too much dialogue in the areas of philosophy and analysis.
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60Robin Williams, who's sometimes too overbearing in real-life live action, makes a great cartoon-character voice.
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60A jumbled, messy movie that has some winning moments but jumps around too much to hold your interest for long.
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50Dazzling panoramas, no matter how impressive, are no substitute for the involving story Happy Feet Two has had to do without.
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50An amiable sequel with not much on its mind other than funny and creaky jokes, and waves of understated beauty.
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50For a computer-animated movie about dancing penguins, it's surprisingly leaden. Not even the impressive voice talent can rev up this clumsy spectacle.
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50Little kids, of course, will swallow it whole without thinking twice.
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50The sequel's themes of friendship and interdependency fail to generate much momentum.
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50A clever and adorable original film remade with most of the charm wrung out of it.
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50Even with the addition of new characters, such as the ones voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon, George Miller's animated sequel just isn't very funny.
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50Though it retains the buoyant musical stylings and splendid visuals that made its predecessor so distinctive, this chatterbox of a sequel loses its way with a raft of annoying side characters for which the slender narrative framework provides far too indulgent a showcase.
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40As a low-cost baby-sitter, this high-energy sequel definitely does the trick.
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40Although appealing to look at, Happy Feet Two is noisy, busy, and unable to spark much emotional involvement in the viewer other than fear for the characters' well-being and a touch of existential angst by way of a couple of krill.
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40Really, the movie has absolutely everything except the light touch required for unaffected charm - the mugging is savage - a single piece of memorable original music, or a production number that's celebratory rather than trampling.
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40The trek to get there is sluggish at best, torturous at worst. March away, penguins. Far away.
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38"Happy Feet" was one of the greatest and most original animated films, but the sequel can't even decide what it's about for the first 40 minutes.
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38The best thing you could say about Happy Feet Two is that it doesn't have any product placements or potty jokes. Other than that, this charmless Antarctic cartoon is what it looks like when hell freezes over.
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38There's something about these films, something about the working-over these songs suffer--a wrongness that's intangible but inescapable, like the unseen menace of a bad dream.
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25The movie's bereftness of invention can be measured by how no story element builds on another. Instead, Happy Feet Two is plotted so that a bunch of disparate things happen, until it's time to end the movie.