![]() Instead, he dances - a big no-no to the penguin elders who see any change in the status quo as a threat to their very way of life.Mumble leaves camp with the other teen penguins to become an adult, only to find himself even less accepted by his immediate peers. ![]() While Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman) have no problem finding one another in a crowded Antarctic meat market, their son isn't quite so lucky: Mumble (Elijah Wood) can't sing a note. Thus, its message(s) ultimately mean(s) little, leaving Happy Feet in the dubious position of being the latest - rather than biggest or best - CGI adventure to arrive in 2006's overstuffed slate of family films.According to Happy Feet, all penguins have a "heart song" - a tune that they perform to entice their future mate. Unfortunately, what it's not is especially well put together and - perhaps even more important - entertaining. The movie is aggressively rhetorical, whether it's pushing its "inside every ugly-duckling is a beautiful swan" message, delivering a diatribe on the environment or suggesting that blind devotion to any one ideology is inevitably a bad idea. ![]() But thinking about it again, perhaps he wasn't altogether far off the mark. I laughed the other night when a colleague suggested that Happy Feet, Warner Bros.' latest foray into CGI filmmaking, was in fact propaganda designed to discourage kids from becoming devout religious fundamentalists. ![]()
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