![]() ![]() Instead, after Mumble comes to retrieve his son and they make their way back to their own colony (a short distance away), they find that their loved ones have been cut off, thanks to a giant jutting glacier, all milky blues and greens, that has left the penguins without a way out. ![]() But a lot of this line of thinking is either diluted or tossed aside completely. Sven is clearly a false prophet, very literally, since he isn’t really a penguin. ![]() It’s here that he sees Sven ( Hank Azaria), a svelte Swedish puffin posing as a “flying penguin,” and this is where the movie flashes some of that anti-organized religious streak that made the first film sizzle. He feels like an outcast, and searches for guidance in a nearby colony overseen by Lovelace ( Robin Williams, back for more). (Covered/interpolated/cute-ified in this number: Prince, Basement Jaxx, and Justin Timberlake, among others.) Our hero from the first film, Mumble ( Elijah Wood), and his partner Gloria ( Pink, subbing for the original’s Brittany Murphy), now have a fuzzy little son named Erik ( Elizabeth Daily), who lacks his mother’s singing ability and his father’s fancy footwork. The film opens on a crowd pleasing note – it’s the time of the annual penguin mating dance, and true to the original film, the penguins show each other what they’ve got via elaborate song-and-dance numbers set to contemporary, “ Moulin Rouge!“-like mash-ups. ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: This Genre-Bending Satire Puts a Blaxploitation Spin on ‘Russian Doll’ Like many of its feathered stars, the sequel feels stuck, motionless, and terribly cold. Sadly, though, “Happy Feet Two” is neither as visually inventive or politically in-your-face. Plus, director George Miller, who co-directed the original (with Warren Coleman and Judy Morris) assumes chief creative control this time around, has a history of whacked-out sequels, having not only crafted the glorious “ Mad Max” flick “ The Road Warrior,” but also the darkly hued follow-up to the sunny Best Picture-nominated “ Babe,” the altogether unclassifiable “ Babe: Pig in the City.” Plus, the trailers for “Happy Feet Two” promised a subplot about a pair of shrimp-like crustaceans (voiced by Matt Damon and Brad Pitt) on a journey of their own, which is pretty fucking weird. For one, the original film, 2006’s “ Happy Feet,” was more slyly subversive than a movie about tap-dancing penguins has any right to be, with a strong thematic undercurrent that championed not only individualism but, more boldly, atheism. There is some precedence for being genuinely excited about “ Happy Feet Two” (yes, the number is spelled out). ![]()
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