Tuesday 20 December 2011

Happy Feet Two (2011) 6/10

Starring : Elijah Wood, Alecia Moore, Hank Azaria
Director : George Miller
Running Time : 100 mins

Dancing penguin Mumble (Wood) is now fully grown and has a son of his own named Erik, but Erik doesn’t want to dance like the other penguins as he is embarrassed by how bad he is. Things get worse when Erik becomes fixated on The Mighty Sven (Azaria), an apparent penguin that can fly. As if things couldn’t get worse for Mumble, the penguins soon realise that their world is in peril from outside forces that are poised to destroy their home…

When this started I thought that this was going to be another rubbish kid’s movie where nothing happens, but eventually the plot kicked in and it was actually quite interesting, though not brilliant. Children will enjoy the various penguins and related characters, while grown ups will like the main plot with the so called Mighty Sven pretending to be a penguin. The only thing I really didn’t like was the bits with the krill, which felt like a rip-off of Ice Age.

You’ll like this if you liked : Surf’s Up



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