What's truly surprising about Happy Feet is not its giddily brilliant entertainment, its intimate knowledge of the culture or its toe-tapping music. It's how commonplace these qualities have become in computer-animated movies… Happy Feet may be just one of the crowd, but what a great crowd it is.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
No film with as many elements as Happy Feet is successful with all of them, and the romantic-emotional elements of this story feel overly familiar. But the music and dancing are fresh and new, and this strong an ecological message has not been seen since Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke."Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Offers dazzling cinematic family fun, and a mad medley of tunes.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The dazzling animation, catchy songs and Broadway-worthy dance numbers give the film even broader appeal.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Happy Feet ends on an upbeat note with singing and dancing, but the weaknesses that precede it deflate the euphoria.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The movie's an uncategorizable mixture of the tacky and profound, and on some weird level, you have to respect it.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
While compromised by the uplift and affirmation that mainstream animation regurgitates like a mommy penguin, it also shows a remarkable persistence of vision. Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, Mr. Miller can’t help but go dark and deep.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jordan Harper
Children, innocent as they are, may not yet have grown to loathe the actor's (Robin Williams) shtick, but you might like to know that he has two--yes, two--roles in this film.Read Full Review »
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