HAPPY FEET (2006) **1/2 For les bambines an encouragement of individuality, a sense that your own unique inner truth is more fundamentally sacred than anything that anyone else is ever going to tell you about anything, and a promise that there's a great big exciting but dangerous world out there that you can improve if you're just willing to risk a little something and engage it. For parents, also, a reminder of such things, and selected pop culture hymns occasionally interwoven and usually with worthy alternative arrangements. These are not simple things to produce, but it's all done so well here that it looks nearly painfully easy. Even the graphics morph into photography seamlessly, more seamlessly than so many moments give way to others, and amidst the violent clash of philosophical cultures that lends itself to nicely so temporal disarray. Also, if you've ever wondered about the World of Penguins, this should you more insight than any nature documentary, I think so. Multi-cultural penguinism is addressed without worrying whether the dense and vulgar will sustain that terrible combination of confused and politically correct, and that's a major first step towards an earth in balance right there. Speaking of which, I can't believe that Brittany Murphy is a white girl, well done. Lots of big bucks Hollywood vocal talent, but Robin Williams once again demonstrates that among his other gifts he's the only legitimate challenger to Mel Blanc as the all-time animated voices king.
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