Over the Christmas period, I watched the animated film Happy Feet. First of all before I go on, I must say that I really don’t like animated films cause they are just all the same but I had nothing better to do! It’s mainly because there’s always some sort of problem that occurs where they have to get themselves out of it and they always do in the end! I just wish for once that it wouldn’t happen, but no because it all fantasy everything always works out in the end, I mean the last Harry Potter film isn’t even out yet and I mean you know what’s going to happen, the good guys always come through and win and live happily ever after! So there’s not much point, the previews for these types of films are enough to see really. But anyway the story is about a bunch of penguins and in their world they all have the ability to sing, it’s more like a musical then it is a film, it may as well have been called the ice caps are alive with the sound of penguins, SERIOUSLY!
They try to rip off real songs throughout the film, I mean it’s good but it gets a bit tedious and they are practically singing about everything, it’s rare to hear them talk normally. Anyway it’s about a penguin named Mumble but before he was born his egg was dropped and now he is believed to be dumb because he can’t sing, but he does have one ability to move (or tap dance) very fast thus allowing him to create sound as sort of an alternative to not being able to sing. This in turn creates the problem that he won’t be able to find a mate because in this made up world the female penguins choose a male penguin if his song completes the females song and she of course likes him. The colony of penguins believe that its Mumble’s dancing that is causing a lack of food and is told to leave the colony because they all believe it’s his fault, in the end Mumble discovers that it’s the humans that are causing the famine and tries to warn there others, he first tried to convince them that’s it aliens and that there’s something else out there beyond the boundaries of the Antarctic. In the end the humans realise what they are doing and that they see how the penguins have been trying to communicate that to them and of course the penguins win and everything turns out fine!
You know for ONCE I would fucking love to see a main character die! I mean it would be so awesome, why it couldn’t have been that they all end up killing Mumble or better yet they wipe out the penguins all together and the bad guys (the humans in this case) win!
Besides the odd story line, one thing about these animated films is that I notice how the graphics are always slightly better than the ones in gaming. I mean don’t get me wrong but some games such as Super Mario Galaxy have all these big bright bold colours etc like they do in film but why is it because you’re playing a game the graphics don’t look as good as how they are appear in a running film? Like for example in cut scenes in games they always look better then what they look like in the actual game play? I never got that. Rant over.
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