Not So Happy Feet
I may be, quite possibly, among the last people on the planet to watch the kids’ penguin movie “Happy Feet.” My children have seen it during daycare, and I thought, hey, easy b-day present for the munchkin. 
I watched it today, and let me tell you, it was NOT what I expected. So, if you haven’t seen the movie and plan to, you may want to avert your eyes from this blog.
It’s not very often that I go off on a movie, but when they mess up the love story (e.g. as in Star Wars Episode II–I’m still not over that wooden dialogue), it really chaps my hide. 
I love kids’ movies, particularly feel-good movies (”Cars” comes to mind as a great kids’ movie). “Happy Feet” started out with a great deal of potential. Poor misfit penguin is trying to make his place in the world. And then comes Gloria, the lovely penguin with a beautiful voice who remains true to their friendship up until the middle of the movie.
**Spoiler Alert**
And then? Mr. Happy Feet, aka Mumble, DUMPS her in the middle of the movie. Presumably to protect her, and this happens in romance novels, too, so I was okay with it. Because later he would be the hero and she would understand that he only broke up with her to keep her safe. And though she would be majorly annoyed with him, they would manage to overcome it all and live happily ever after.
Instead, he comes back to find his girlfriend penguin MARRIED to another penguin with the personality of a sink. AND she has 7 children! 
I kept waiting for the Dream Sequence to end, only to find out that no, that really was part of the ending. You’ve got to be kidding me. So what they’re really saying is that, weird penguins with foot-tapping tendencies are left by their girlfriends and are doomed to be alone for the rest of their little lives. HOW is that a feel-good message, I ask you?? Forget the environmental plot. The love story in this movie just didn’t work for me. Man. The misfit penguin is SUPPOSED to get the hot penguin chick because he has grown as a character and she accepts him as he is. She’s supposed to love him anyway, not marry someone else.
So was it just me, or was anyone else disappointed by the movie?
Michelle posted in Writing @ 8:02 pm | Viewed 2929 times
mary beth Says:
Oh man. I watched the movie at the theater and totally missed the ending. YIKES.
I’m LOVING Her Irish Warrior. Seriously loving it. The way I used to love the viking historicals back when I first started reading romance.
Bronwen Says:
nup, she actually didn’t have the kids she was teaching them with a male that wanted to be her husband. Really I promise you I had to sit through it twice before I realised.
Michelle Says:
Bronwen–REALLY? I could have sworn she said they were her kids. I thought she was training her own children in singing. Huh. Didn’t catch that at all! Even so, they still should’ve gotten together.
Mary Beth–Yay! So glad you’re enjoying it.
Melissa Mc Says:
I didn’t read all your blog since I haven’t seen it. Either have my kids. Once i do watch it I’ll let you know what I think!
Kelly Says:
There’s a romance in Happy Feet?? I think I’m the only human now left alive who has not seen that movie.
Missie Says:
That movie made me want to stick a pencil up my nose until it touched my brain, then wiggle it around. Bleh!
Dancing penguins I could handle. It was the idea that the UN could come in and save the day that burned my biscuits. Someone please tell me who the UN has saved lately?
kacey Says:
Okay, haven’t seen the movie…and I don’t think I want to see it now either.
I guess I’m one of about, oh say, 12 people who haven’t seen the movie.:shock:
Stacy Dawn Says:
ROFL!! I hadn’t seen the movie but I’m so glad you said that because I thought I was the only one who got disappointed with a sucky ending on a love theme no matter if it’s a kids movie or a horror flick LOL
Louise B Says:
When Happy Feet first came out, I was interested in seeing it because I like good clean movies even though my children are now in college. Then I read about how the UN saved them. Like Missie this was too blatantly fictional to be believed, so I’m one of the 12 people who has never seen the movie–nor do I ever intend to.
I warn people away from it.
Bronwen Says:
I promise they do get together. They were together at the end of the film. Now to about 7 kids, they used some pretty spot on truths about how they breed at the beginning, they lay one egg and one egg only that is nursed by the male so for her to have 7 kids….
LOL I have 4 kids so man I have to watch things carefully otherwise there are many tears.
Ah Missie that idea of the UN saving the world I mean hey why not when we have stories where ghosts can impregnate women? *grin*