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Hollywood and Penguins.
18 years ago
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Always eager to wring as much money out of a concept as it can before leaving its lifeless body to latch onto the next popular fad, Hollywood keeps making more movies about penguins.
And I'd actually have a really good rant going here if all these penguin movies weren't all so frickin' awesomely well done!
Surf's Up is beautiful, clever, awe-inspiring, and remarkably... dignified for a movie about an eXtrEmE sport. Jeff Bridges and Shia LaBeouf do an amazing job bringing a hearfelt, realistic, and unrehearsed-sounding warmth to the two main characters, and although the story itself is similar to countless other sport-competition movies that have come before it, the film is so stylishly executed that it really doesn't matter.
... Oh, and also, there's otter wiener in it. (kind of)
And I'd actually have a really good rant going here if all these penguin movies weren't all so frickin' awesomely well done!
Surf's Up is beautiful, clever, awe-inspiring, and remarkably... dignified for a movie about an eXtrEmE sport. Jeff Bridges and Shia LaBeouf do an amazing job bringing a hearfelt, realistic, and unrehearsed-sounding warmth to the two main characters, and although the story itself is similar to countless other sport-competition movies that have come before it, the film is so stylishly executed that it really doesn't matter.
... Oh, and also, there's otter wiener in it. (kind of)
Of course, the only down-side I could see is having to include advisory warnings at the beginning of each movie, saying that watching the movie might give you cavities due to the overabundance of cuteness if two or more bunnies appear on screen at once
Having the music in Happy Feet be instantly recognizable as popular songs is entirely the point. The movie takes real penguin behaviors and finds a humorous way to present them "in human terms". In order to convey that penguins find and choose their partners by yelling out a unique mating call to the crowd, each penguin's "song" has to be instantly recognizable as a different song in order for the metaphor to work -- a crowded mass of penguin mating calls becomes a gigantic mega-song mash-up, and the fun is all in how those different recognizable songs intertwine with each other. If they were all original songs, you wouldn't know which musical notes or lyrics belonged to which songs.
I also like Shia Labeof. :)
Unforts, I've been disappointed by a few movies already this year, the most recent being Shrek 3.