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First teaser for HAPPY FEET 2...urgh

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Happy Feet was probably one of the most depressing and craziest kids movies I've ever seen plotwise, even by kids movie standards. Otherwise it was ok, awkward and off-putting pop-music covers and all. Not surprised it was greenlit for a sequel.

Once again, however, I sit idly by while every other CGI cartoon gets a sequel besides the one that really deserves it/can actually have one without being totally superfluous to the original: motherfucking Incredibles.
 
Despite the terribleness of the trailer, it's written and directed by George Miller, so it might actually be good.
I'm hoping this is another surprise attack on the world's children, like Babe: Pig in the City.
 
the first movie should have ended exactly at the point where he realizes he's trapped in that zoo place. would've been an epic ending.
 
Poimandres said:
So, umm, I haven't seen the whole thing but wasn't Happy Feet very well received critically and commercially?

What are you guys complaining about? Was it actually awful?
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It's not even close to awful unless your penguin films must be based in reality. It was indeed fantastic. It soundly defeated Cars in the awards field, was directed by a good director, had great animation, music, and the best performance(s) from Robin Williams in ages.

As an aside, the DVD has some cut scenes. Normally, I don't care for those as there is a reason they are cut, but these are pretty good with one of them featuring the late great Crocodile Hunter.
The Dutch Slayer said:
The penguin craze died with Surf's Up or whatever!

Surfs up is a great movie!
And the Ice Age movies are great to, but happy feet is just urrrg :(
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Argh.

Ice Age movies are the worst of the "good" animated movies. Surf's Up is good and Happy Feet slaughters both of them.
 
People who like Happy Feet are horrible human beings. That such a piece of shit won an academy award is a crime against humanity.
 
I've never seen Cars or Happy Feet. Didn't really care for dancing penguins and the whole premise of Cars just bores me.
 
_Isaac said:
I don't care what people say Happy Feet > Cars.
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I gave Happy Feet a chance up until about ten minutes in when the poorly voice0acted celebrity penguins were talking about how much of an outcast the main character was because he was different.

Sure I watched the rest, but I knew at that point what direction the movie was heading, and it didn't disappoint.
 
Poimandres said:
So, umm, I haven't seen the whole thing but wasn't Happy Feet very well received critically and commercially?

What are you guys complaining about? Was it actually awful?
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It wasn't. It was a fantastic movie, and it came out of nowhere too.

Souldriver said:
Evidently they did, cause it explains the negativity.
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What was wrong with Happy Feet?
 
The first one was the worst movie I've seen in years.

The scene where the people find the penguins and then have the responsive dance with them was the most cringe-worthy scene in movie history. I watched it at home and still walked out.
 
My problem with Happy Feet was that it
started out as a normal, charming CG movie but then made a sudden huge change in tone halfway through. It suddenly started forcing in this huge environmentalism angle out of nowhere, as if the entire production studio was suddenly bought by Greenpeace or something.
 
christ all mighty...

please, Miller, just get on with Mad Max: Fury Road!



How many fucking movies with obnoxious talking animals have to pass before we can see Rockatansky again?
 
Bernbaum said:
Saying Happy Feet was better than Cars is like saying vomit is better than diarrhea.
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Crazy talk
Myzer said:
Well that was painful to listen to. I thought the whole premise was the penguins sang, not busted rhymes.
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They sang every genre (Except maybe country). Each penguin had their own song but they were also taught all genres including hip hop.
Souldriver said:
Evidently they did, cause it explains the negativity.
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That's got nothing to do with all the hyperbolic retardation going on. Nothing has been explained that would indicate it's anywhere near the godawful movie ones claim it is. Same thing for Cars actually. Comparing it negatively to Ice Age is an insult against al things animated.
Plinko said:
The first one was the worst movie I've seen in years.

The scene where the people find the penguins and then have the responsive dance with them was the most cringe-worthy scene in movie history. I watched it at home and still walked out.
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That was a 10 second scene very close to the end, so that was a good time to walk out of one of the worst movies in years.
SalsaShark said:
Happy Feet won an Oscar ????

jesus fuckin christ
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Deservedly so although Cars would have been OK too. :)
Akuun said:
My problem with Happy Feet was that it
started out as a normal, charming CG movie but then made a sudden huge change in tone halfway through. It suddenly started forcing in this huge environmentalism angle out of nowhere, as if the entire production studio was suddenly bought by Greenpeace or something.
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That angle was there almost from the time of Mumble being born. The cause of fish disappearing was the mystery and set up the whole religion vs. reason argument that had fundalmentalists up in arms.
 
KAOz said:
Acctually, his character is retarded. Think about it. His dad drops his egg really hard, and after that, Elijah Wood can't sing, and never really grows out of his kiddie-fur. So basically, it is a movie about a retarded penguin who tapdances.
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I have been enlightened. I always thought he was just a different breed that got switched or something when his dad dropped the egg.
 
I took a girl I was seeing at the time to see this movie, and smashed/got dome in the back of the theater.

I have no recollection of what it is about.

BEST MOVIE EVER
 
JGS said:
That was a 10 second scene very close to the end, so that was a good time to walk out of one of the worst movies in years.
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Defend it all you want--it still sucked. The songs were crap, Robin Williams' character was beyond irritating, and I think we need to take care of the planet but the forced environmentalism message was crammed down the viewers' throats.
 
Point:
Plinko said:
Defend it all you want--it still sucked. The songs were crap, Robin Williams' character was beyond irritating, and I think we need to take care of the planet but the forced environmentalism message was crammed down the viewers' throats.
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Counterpoint:

It was good.

Robin Williams characters were decent, the music already existed so you seem to hate the artists that everyone else like a good deal.

I'll leave the environmental message alone since I can't argue about ones being offended by a fish shortage message. They are problably the ones eating up all the Chilean sea bass and engage in whale hunts off the coats of Japan.
K701 said:
I have been enlightened. I always thought he was just a different breed that got switched or something when his dad dropped the egg.
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Biggest issue with the movie beisdes the instant stoppage of fishing.

Although I had no problem with him keeping his fur a little later than others, he had to have been gone for quite some time, so the fur was silly by then. It would have been better to simply mark him with the tuxedo bowtie as a birthmark since he was special.

He wasn't retarded obviously because he was the one that figured out the problems and taught the others to dance which they also had a natural inclination to do, just not allowed.
MatthewB92 said:
I liked the first one but there is no need for a second one really.
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I'm leaning toward this being the correct answer.
 
Happy Feet would have been a good movie had it not tried to put an environmentalism agenda in the middle of it at the last minute. Otherwise it's a decent attempt at the "fish out of water" plot.
 
Saw Cars 2 (Argh) and this trailer was easily the crowd favorite.

This is going to be a hit in it's selected demographic. People like birds singing Sexy Back.
 
Plinko said:
Defend it all you want--it still sucked. The songs were crap, Robin Williams' character was beyond irritating, and I think we need to take care of the planet but the forced environmentalism message was crammed down the viewers' throats.
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But the songs were excellent (as well as the score), Robin Williams was great in both roles, and the environmentalist message wasn't even that annoying (although that's probably because I agreed with it). It was a fantastic film that missed my radar, but got to enjoy it fully on DVD.
 
I enjoyed Happy Feet.

But I have no idea why is warrants a sequel. Honestly, studios need to realize that not ALL films need sequels.
 
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