Hecka Happy Feet

By
Cougar Staff
 – November 28, 2006Posted in: Entertainment

happy-feet.jpgHappy Feet premiered Novemburrr 17th and got great reviews. So why weren’t many high school students inclined to see it? Great, another movie about penguins, those adorable but boring creatures of the cold. Morgan Freeman brought attention to them in the 2005 release March of the Penguins when he narrated their lives as skillfully as humanly possible, but now we have to watch another movie? The irony was killing me, so I decided to go all out in seeing what I believed to be the most generic kids movie of all time.
Roundtrip to Powell Station by Bart: $6.70. Ticket for Imax theater: $15. Small candy at concessions stand: $4.25. Watching the greatest movie of all time on a fatty screen with digital surround sound: absolutely without a doubt beyond priceless in the sentimental value. I couldn’t believe it as I walked out of the gigantic theater, Happy Feet rocked!

Not only do penguins have the hardest lives of any creature on the face of the planet, they have hilarious accents and cultural tendencies. Any movie with Mexican penguins having a fiesta while the rest of the Emperor penguins dance to “Boogie Wonderland” and “I Wish” deserves to go down in history.

It was actually a movie for all ages and Robin Williams proved his brilliance once again by voicing a kid’s character and having every single adult in the theater laugh at the innuendos. The cultural references made it slightly contemporary but I don’t think that the writers were looking to win Best Picture with a kid’s movie.

As absurd as it sound, this movie was fantastic and hilarious, and even though those of us who loved it will be laughed at until the end, it was a real party and it’s your loss if you miss it when it’s big.