Happy Feet Two (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)
Happy Feet Two (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy). The sequel Happy Feet 2 begins a few years after the 2006 original ended: Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) is now married to Gloria (Pink) and the father of Erik (Ava Acres), a chick who’s afraid to dance. When Erik sees the puffin Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria), he decides he can learn to fly: Sven is the leader of a cult that preaches if you believe it, it can happen. An unexplained seismic event causes a glacier to shift, trapping Gloria and all the other emperor penguins: Mumble, Erik, and two other chicks must rescue them before they starve. What begins as a familiar story about a diffident chick quickly becomes needlessly and hopelessly mired in subplots involving elephant seals, skua gulls, human explorers, and a pair of renegade krill (voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon). The motion-capture animation is adequate at best, with snow and water splashing around the dancing penguins to hide the fact that their feet aren’t making contact with the ground plane. Endless tracking shots over th
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Happy Feet Two (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)
Great music, not as good as the first one,
Pros: Every time I watch “Happy Feet (Full Screen Edition),” I want to figure out where I can buy a stuffed penguin so I can squeeze it. These penguins are adorable. I love the dancing and all of the musical selections. I enjoyed the back-and-forth dialogue between Mumble (played by Elijah Wood) and Eric (played by Ava Acres). I thought it was kinda cool to hear Common playing a penguin (Seymour). I didn’t even realize that Brad Pitt and Matt Damon played the voices of Will the Krill and Bill the Krill until after the film was over. I wasn’t as interested in their characters in the film, but I’m a big fan of the actors so that makes me want to see it again just to hear them. I had no idea Pink played the penguin Gloria either. Finding this stuff out after the fact makes me want to hear them and picture the people behind the film.
Cons: The first film was definitely better. The plot for this one lasted way too long. I didn’t really care about the krill trying to find something bigger in life than being at the bottom of the food chain. I was bored with the elephant seals and their attitudes. And as much as I liked watching Eric rebel against Mumble, I have yet to be entertained by Raul or Ramon. I was tired of those characters immediately. I could’ve gone the whole movie without any of these characters and seen more to do with Gloria, Mumble and Eric. I liked Eric’s relationship with Atticus (played by Benjamin Flores Jr.) and felt like that could’ve been developed more.
If not for the music, I could’ve gone without seeing this one at a movie theater. It’s good for a rental or watching during matinee hours but that’s about it.
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|A so-so sequel with stunning CGI animation hampered by jumbled, incoherent story,
Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Gary Eck, Warren Coleman, Paul Livingston
Happy Feet Two, a sequel to the 2006 film Happy Feet, is something of a mixed bag. On the one hand it is, like the original, a masterful feat of CGI animation in the way it portrays in stunning detail both the animal characters and the stark beauty of the Antarctic and aquatic environments they live in. But on the other hand, unlike the original, the story is a near-incoherent mess of multiple meandering plot threads and, quite frankly, too many characters. Given that it was directed by George Miller and written by Miller, Gary Eck, Warren Coleman and Paul Livingston, most of whom were involved in the directing and writing of the first film, it is something of a puzzle as to why the story-telling side of things fell so far short this time around.
The plot: Mumble (Elijah Wood) and Gloria (voiced this time around by Pink) now have a young son named Erik (Ava Acres) who’s reluctant to dance and who, when encouraged to try by Mumble, ends up falling flat on his face in front of the whole Emperor penguin community and is humiliated. Erik then runs away – along with his two best friends Boadicia (Meibh Campbell) and Atticus (Lil P-Nut) – with Ramon (Robin Williams) who has decided to return to his original home of Adele-land. When they reach Adele-land, they find that much has changed. The Adele penguin community is now under the god-like leadership of a strange-looking penguin (actually a puffin pretending to be a penguin) named The Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria) who can fly! Lovelace (Robin Williams again) who met Sven when both were rescued by a Russian trawler, acts as his prophet, proclaiming to all and sundry the miraculous history and powers of The Mighty Sven and the philosophy of Sven-Think (“If you want it, you must will it. If you will it, it will be yours.”)
From here on, the plot threads and characters involved only multiply and grow more inter-tangled. Mumble goes to Adele-land to bring back Erik and his friends, only to find Erik doesn’t want to leave his hero, The Mighty Sven. Ramon pursues a female penguin named Carmen (Sofia Vergara) who wants nothing to do with him, but Sven convinces Ramon to believe in himself and his destiny. The scene then abruptly switches to underwater where we meet two kirll – Will the Krill (Brad Pitt) and Bill the Krill (Matt Damon), who are part of a huge swarm of millions of krill but who decide to leave because Will believes there is cosmic meaning to be found beyond the swarm. Back on the surface, a sudden splitting of glacial ice disrupts Emperor-land and traps the Emperor penguin community in a high-walled canyon of ice, cutting them off from the ocean and hence from their food supply. Erik and his friends begin their return with Mumble to Emperor-land, but only because Sven urged him to. Along the way, they encounter an aggressive bull elephant seal, Bryan the Beach Master (Richard Carter), and his two pups, who refuses to back up to let them pass across a narrow ice bridge, but events lead to Mumble rescuing Bryan and Bryan swearing that he owes Mumble a favor. When they finally reach Emperor-land, they find that they cannot reach the now-trapped Emperor penguin community. As Mumble and Erik try to find a way to save the trapped penguins from starvation, the scenes go back and forth between Emperor penguins, Adele penguins, Mumble, Erik, Ramon, Lovelace, Sven, Will and Bill, Bryan and the seal herd, with some humans and a flock of menacing skua (basically sea vultures) added into the mix for good measure. Sound jumbled and thrown together? It is.
As is the singing and dancing. The original Happy Feet had singing and dancing, but there was a seamless continuity to it all and everything flowed. Here, it feels like they threw in everything but the kitchen sink (and they even do that at one point when Erik launches into an operatic aria about his father) with the result that there’s no flow and no unifying theme. Instead, the film feels like it’s constantly veering off into new directions, none of which is ever followed up on. If there is a unifying theme – other than the obvious environmental one and the usual heavy-handed messages of ‘Be Yourself!” and “Everyone needs to work together!” – it’s insecurity. Erik’s insecurity about fitting into the community. Mumble’s insecurity about being a father. Ramon’s insecurity about finding a mate. Sven’s insecurity about not being accepted if the others find out he’s not a penguin. Will’s insecurity at finding out krill are at the bottom of the food chain, and Bill’s insecurity about not being part of a swarm. And Bryan’s insecurity of what will happen to him if the other seals find out he backed up for a penguin. Which pretty much sums up the core problem with Happy Feet Two – it’s an insecure movie that isn’t sure just what it wants to be.
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|Much better than the first movie…personally,
The first movie had great music and i enjoyed it but waaay to politically motivated for a kids movie and it seems as if it could have ended like 4 times…., The second one is cute great music and wasnt long drawn out.
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