Wow, aren't our animated childrens movies so uplifting these days. I'm so happy Hollywood is pushing humanistic ideals. Aren't they just grand....
Yeah, this doesn't look like a movie I'll be going to see. According to Michael Medved it's a movie that is "dark, disturbing and deeply political." Scary.
Read the whole commentary He's made on the movie if you get a chance.
Here's the conclusion of the movie Happy Feet on plugged in movie reviews from focus on the family.
Happy Feet: "Happy Feet, shot with a true director's eye for camera movement, scene composition and detail (the little Mumble wears 6 million feathers and his dance steps are all motion captured from virtuoso tap-dancer Savion Glover), gives us a digital Antarctica that's both bone-chilling and beautiful. It also boogies down a path that kids' movies have just about worn down into a rut: Be true to yourself. Gratifyingly, although that theme has been hijacked in recent years by (anti)social agendas, the film doesn't appear to boast any banner other than, 'Friendship and love can overcome any difference.'
OK. It does hoist one other banner. The cute little penguins (humanized with romantic desires, teen angst and even a kind of religion) are being threatened by a horrible and mysterious alien. And that evil entity is ... us. If only mankind would go away, they seem to be saying, then all the creatures of the world could be happy and live in harmony. Of course the film's creators overlook the fact that if man went away then there wouldn't be anyone around to anthropomorphize all that is cute and cuddly anymore. How would the penguins tap-dance then?
So, what's on the dance card for families who're itching to move their feet toward the local cineplex? A pouty Prince song, 'perpetual indulgence,' a bit of defiant behavior, oddly unpleasant interjections of spiritualism, Footloose-style loosen-up-you-old-fuddy-duddy "moralizing," and a few bodily function jokes. But also images of sacrificial love, friendship, courage and loyalty. Not to mention (again) the idea that nobody should be shunned just because he likes to dance and you like to sing. "
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Aren't all movies like this? If you want to see a movie and not be exposed to sex,cussing,and people jabbing at the Christian way of life, you have to search long and hard. Sometimes,you have to wait months and months to see a good movie. I personally think that Hollywood is destroying todays youth. Guys see a movie that is action packed and goto the theater to see it and are exposed to sex and cussing. Girls see a boy-meets-girl-and-they-fall-in-love movie and goto the theater to see it and are exposed to sex and cussing. There hardly ever is a movie that is worth seeing yet we are all drawn to them like flies to crap. And isn't it funny how they leave the bad stuff out of the commericials?
Not always. Sometimes they have bad stuff in the commercials too, but yeah. That's why I go to plugged in movie reviews. There are plenty of good movies. Or at least ones with less of this stuff. What I really hate is when there's an agenda. Lots of cussing and sex are bad, but what's even worse is a movie that tries to promote the philosophy that leads to the kind of average secular American you see in today's society.
But there ARE good movies out there. You just have to look for them.
Yeah, not always but quite a bit they do hide it all. They do it a lot for the supposed children movies.
Yeah, there are good movies out there but that doesn't mean that we should see 'em.It's a waist of time to see them but we still do it.
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