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I thought Happy Feet was pretty amusing in an absurd way... and though it was pretty heavy-handed with the message, it was really only the last part of the movie that played host to it. The directing and animation was great, and the story was interesting... but stop-and-sing musical numbers are less interesting to me than numbers where people have a REASON to sing (i.e. they are so filled with emotion that they can't hold it in anymore) and it moves the story forward.
My other big problem with it was the incongruous name and voice of the maternal penguin. Norma Jean? Nicole Kidman's simpering whisper made me cringe. Don't they know Norma Jean's history? It could never be made into a happy penguin movie. (Or a sometimes dark one, even.)
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