tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post3197195075955961418..comments2023-11-05T02:01:53.847-06:00Comments on Antagony & Ecstasy: MO' PENGUINS, MO PROBLEMSTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-50033759251666339042011-11-29T14:03:38.804-06:002011-11-29T14:03:38.804-06:00SoA - I'm apparently in the minority, but I...SoA - I'm apparently in the minority, but I'm not in love with the original <i>Happy Feet</i>. Everyone who told you it's not about the song/dance situation is right. Forget how the movie was marketed. What I learned as a projectionist who was checking the print after the theater closed was <i>Happy Feet</i> is not a movie to watch at 3am after a long day; I went into it expecting a happy story about a happy penguin who teaches everyone it's ok to be yourself and was completely weirded out when it became something else.Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06316541604903436175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-3527631793626654532011-11-29T11:20:01.958-06:002011-11-29T11:20:01.958-06:00So it appears EVERYBODY thinks the original Happy ...So it appears EVERYBODY thinks the original Happy Feet is top-shelf...<br /><br />I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it in full yet. I've tried about a dozen times (aided by it being my friend's son's favorite movie) but my suspension of disbelief gets absolutely mauled and destroyed every time. Oddly enough, this has nothing to do with talking and singing and dancing penguins. That's all standard. I can't get past the idea that the singing penguins find the dancing penguin to be strange and unusual... Not to resort to hyperbole, but it's the single most ridiculous premise I've ever heard in any film ever. If the dancing penguin was a mime, say, or a juggler, that'd be gold. But singing and dancing pretty much go hand in hand. Everybody has said the song/dance situation has little to do with the actual movie and as a whole it's great but my mind just can't wrap around this detail.SoAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05775678001010750211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-9242017051371100602011-11-24T02:40:31.117-06:002011-11-24T02:40:31.117-06:00I love your blog, but I think I disagree entirely ...I love your blog, but I think I disagree entirely with everything you've written here. In a few days - or whenever I can be arsed to actually write it along with a few other reviews - anyone who wants can find out why at my own little blog. <br /><br /> I'm also a huge fan of the original film, and I found this an enormously satisfying follow-up for the way it enlarges the world we were presented with in the first, going a bit deeper and even darker with the constant mention and palpable threat of death from starvation and birds of prey. I thought all of the plot elements cohered together pretty wonderfully, and the film has the same kind of unfamiliar structure that made "Pig In the City" so fantastic. There's even a fairly existential Rosencrantz and Guildenstern subplot in the krill characters.<br /> It's a mesh of things going on, but they all orbit around a core storyline of Mumble trying to raise his son as the world changes and crumbles around him. I'd even say it's less about his son than it is him, and their relationship, rather than any kind of mission of self-discovery on the son's part.<br /><br /> I actually would call this a go-for-broke kind of sequel, very much in the same mode as "Pig In the City" - Miller spares no expense. It's more harsh, it's more epic, and it's more ecstatic. Is it a little messy? Oh, sure. But, I like that. It feels ragged for a reason.HenryJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13148347297804728648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-77590646728046256112011-11-23T20:31:55.643-06:002011-11-23T20:31:55.643-06:00Trish- Bill the krill is obviously, hopelessly in ...Trish- Bill the krill is obviously, hopelessly in love with Will the krill, especially given the yearning ache in Damon's voice.<br /><br />GeoX- There's a whole thing about how he got down there, with a boat of environmentalists and the other Robin Williams character that I didn't even mention. Like I said, it's a busy movie.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09491952893581644049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-91445782878144680442011-11-23T19:32:25.278-06:002011-11-23T19:32:25.278-06:00So...does the movie evince an awareness that puffi...So...does the movie evince an awareness that puffins are Arctic, not Antarctic, birds? I assume you would've mentioned it if it didn't, but you just never know to what extent kids' movies are going to respect the audience's intelligence.GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14812333.post-63035494431115420132011-11-23T18:50:38.178-06:002011-11-23T18:50:38.178-06:00"And thirdly because of Damon's enthusias..."And thirdly because of Damon's enthusiastic descent into homoeroticism."<br /><br />O_o<br /><br />As I have no desire at all to subject myself to "Happy Feet 2" (I greatly disliked the first one), this statement demands elaboration please.<br /><br />Man, I was hoping Miller would at least give us a go-for-broke-bananas sequel like he did with the astounding "Babe: Pig in the City". More's the pity.<br /><br />(How in the nine blue hells does a puffin wind up in Antarctica anyway?!)Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.com