And the Elders are like “OK I guess.” The humans understand the message? Somehow? And decide to stop overfishing and polluting the ocean. He convinces all of the Emperor penguins to dance so they humans will understand that they’re taking away their food.
He leads the humans back to Emperorland, where he rallies his friends to start a flash mob. He ends up getting captured, put into a zoo - but his dancing catches the attention of the humans. He travels with The Amigos and Lovelace (a guru from The Amigos’ town) to The Land Beyond The Elephant Seals.
This sets Mumble on a mission to find out where the fish are really going. They blame him for the fish shortage, and Mumble is BANISHED. They accuse Mumble of corrupting their youth and upsetting their god. Until the Elders break up the tomfoolery. This leads to all of the other penguins deciding that dancing is kinda cool? They break into song and everything is beautiful for one shining moment. Mumble is able to dance to Gloria’s Heartsong and express his love for her. This is when that “Boogie Wonderland” sequence that I mentioned earlier happens. They help Mumble gain confidence, they hype him up and try to help him win over Gloria. The Amigos think Mumble’s dancing is cool and even ask him to teach them. Mumble never really feels accepted by others until he meets The Amigos (we’re going to talk about how problematic they are but not rn). Regardless, he keeps trying to get their approval and be a part of the gang. His classmates constantly bully him for not being able to sing. Mumble is excluded from class activities and is barred from his graduation.
He’s constantly making it very clear that he’s ashamed of his son and projects his own insecurities onto Mumble (Drinking Game: take a shot every time Memphis is embarrassed of his son).īecause singing is so central to Emperorland society, it is the only thing taught in their school. But this doesn’t stop her from being a loving, supportive and wonderful mother. She’s heartbroken that her little boy may never find love. Naturally, his mother, Norma Jean, is distraught. Lil guy opens his mouth and sounds like he’s screaming in agony, it’s not cute. When two penguins love each other very much, their Heartsongs complement each other’s, and they sing a beautiful medley in front of the entire town. You see, in Emperorland, they don’t dance - they sing! It’s how they worship their penguin god ( The Great ‘Guin) and more importantly, it’s how they find their mates. His father, Memphis, immediately shames his minute-old son, when he sees him dancing: This is not exactly socially acceptable in the great nation of Emperorland where he lives. Mumble comes straight out of the egg tapping his lil gremlin feet. Our hero Mumble starts getting bullied from the moment he’s born. I have so much to say about all of this, however, today we’re just going to focus on the “embracing our differences” part of “Happy Feet.”
But for some reason, it also tries to comment on 30 trillion other things and ends up doing a cruddy job (much like I will in this article). “Happy Feet” wants to tell us two things: (1) we should embrace our differences (2) pollution bad.
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If we want to be generous, we could say it is one movie that loosely follows the structure of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but that would be slander. Well, it’s because “Happy Feet” is really two different movies wearing a trench coat pretending to be one movie, à la Vincent Adultman. It’s weird and convoluted and the only good thing about it is the “ Boogie Wonderland” sequence.Īnyway, you’re probably wondering why I have such strong feelings about a children’s movie from almost 15 years ago. If you’re unfamiliar, it’s about Mumble, a tap-dancing penguin who’s an outcast in his community until his sweet moves solve a food shortage! Sounds cute right? WRONG. The 2006 animated film “Happy Feet” is a monstrosity and I am obsessed with it.
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