Happy Feet (2006)

The penguins are more likely to mambo than march in this all-singing, all-dancing digi-toon. It’s Moulin Rouge with flippers, the jukebox constantly jumping as tap-happy misfit Mumble (he was dropped as an egg) tries to find his singing voice. So far, so frivolous. Two-thirds in, though, there’s an abrupt change of tune, Miller lurching into a plea for more penguin-friendly fishing policies. All well and good, but the mix of cute and serious is as awkward as the lumping together of real people and pixels in the Close Encounters-esque last act.

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