![]() Granted the scenes with the Emperor penguins were mostly musical, they were done well enough to be enjoyed. They are amazing and have to be experienced in the theater (specifically, the IMAX screen) to be fully appreciated. I was completely immersed in the action sequences as well as the underwater scenes. After seeing Happy Feet on the IMAX screen, I can't recommend that anyone watch it on a regular screen. In a time where computer animated films can generally be written off as bad, Happy Feet really knows how to have a good time and you will enjoy going along for the ride. The way they get there will probably surprise you, though. Will he succeed? It's a kid's movie - you better know the answer to that. When he is ostracized and kicked out of the colony, he goes on an adventure to save that same colony. In a world of penguins that attract mates by singing to each other, poor Mumble ( Elijah Wood) was born with a voice that only a mother could love. ![]() Misery and death is the individualist's end.Happy Feet Will Make Your Feet Tap Until the End Goes to show, the individual is never above the State. What happens now, you ask? He gets sent to a marine exhibit in God-knows-where, and goes literally Bat Fuck Insane, finally killing himself with an icicle through the chest. Rather than tell the colony, he puts the punishment in his own hands. Mumble then discovers the cause of the famine is the humans, overfishing the lands and polluting the seas. They let him go, and what did he do? Go out looking for answers, without so much as a State-mandated request! When the elders try to explain that the cause of the famine is Mumble, who has angered the gods with his dancing, Mumble tries to insist that they are wrong! The story could have ended right there if the other penguins had decided to destroy Mumble and crucify him over the icy ridge for all to see, but no. Even worse, he comes at a time when a great fish famine grips the land. When Mumble is finally assimilated into their group, the insolent little shit actually decides to go back to the Emperor colony. Rather than redeem himself in the eyes of his brethren and eliminate this inferior race of penguin, Mumble united with them, and showed them his blasphemous way of the dance, no doubt preparing the Adelies for an invasion against the Emperor colony. So it came as no surprise when Mumble was trying to scrub a particularly stubborn fecal stain of one of the glacial walls, that a leopard seal, no doubt trained by the State to find and eliminate troublesome parasites like Mumble, attacked and chased him, all the way to a nearby colony of Adelie penguins. In a functioning colony, you do not exist as an individual, you exist as an arm of the government, and if you do not perform, you will be amputated. Always pushing and pushing, trying to "be himself". But even this gracious act of mercy, Mumble could not accept. Nevertheless, his parents found a use for him, scrubbing the excrement off the shelves of ice around the bay. He was a parasite, leeching off the sweet unity of the State like some shit-filled barnacle. He could not sing, he could not keep a beat. His noxious tap "dancing" bore a clear and dangerous message to the nation: "Look at me, I am not a tool of the Machine!" Mumble was born as what we call a "turd-baby", a whiny piece of shit with no usable aptitudes. The fate of anyone who dares cross the State.
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