Happy Feet

Post by **Ben** » January 17th, 2006, 5:03 pm

Ahh, gotcha.

I think the detail is all there on the trailer, but just "not coming through" due to motion blur/quality, etc...

Of course a poster always has that much more attention brought to it as well, seeing as they are the central images in promoting a movie.

Post by **Dacey** » January 18th, 2006, 10:48 pm

I'll tell you what those posters both are:

Avatar Worthy.

Post by **Meg** » January 19th, 2006, 7:46 am

Ah, yes, that's true.

Post by **Matt** » November 2nd, 2006, 7:34 am

Comingsoon.net has a great behind the scenes look at Happy Feet.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=17313

Post by **Ben** » November 2nd, 2006, 8:35 am

Nice.

Post by **Dacey** » November 2nd, 2006, 4:38 pm

This movie is getting a LOT of backing-up from WB. Everywhere I go, it seems I see penguins!

Post by **Ben** » November 2nd, 2006, 6:26 pm

Nice.

Post by **Meg** » November 2nd, 2006, 7:03 pm

This should do pretty well. As long as WB has good marketing for it, anyway...Whenever a trailer plays in a theater I'm in, the audience all smiles stupidly and starts muttering giddily with each other. It's cute.

Post by **Matt** » November 2nd, 2006, 8:22 pm

The thing that bothers me, is his tap dancing never matches up with the sound you hear.

Post by **Dacey** » November 3rd, 2006, 4:47 pm

That's probably just a problem with the ads. The sound in the actual movie is likely to be more "In Sync".

Post by **macontosh2000** » November 20th, 2006, 9:15 am

I am putting my review of Happy Feet in spoiler tags, so there will be spoilers.

7.5/10

Post by **Meg** » November 20th, 2006, 5:06 pm

Post by **James** » November 20th, 2006, 5:46 pm

This movie was awful - and I don't say that lightly. The first 45 minutes are a total mess story-wise, not that there is any "story" to speak of.

The next 45 minutes makes the first half look Oscar worthy. The film is pure propaganda. And I say that as a big supporter of environmental charity Conservation International (highly recommended! http://www.conservation.org/ ). The story makes a huge and sudden swing from no story to extreme environmental talking points come to life. The reason I call it propaganda is because NONE of the films marketing or promotions go into this aspect. They know any mention of that would turn off their potential viewers so they purposely don't mention it until they have their captive audience. And the film's message isn't from the responsible environmental wing. This film comes from the loony fringe wing that makes the rest of them look bad. Yes we can buy talking and dancing penguins, but some of what they throw at us in this section just makes you want to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Ignoring that part though - Animation is great. Story is awful (and I'm only talking about the first part). Voice acting was way over the top. Elijah Wood, surprisingly, was the best of the lot.

Don't take the kids. They will be bored to tears. The showing I went to there was no laughing, just silence the whole film except for extremely antsy kids ready to go home.

Post by **ShyViolet** » November 20th, 2006, 6:29 pm

This film comes from the loony fringe wing that makes the rest of them look bad. Yes we can buy talking and dancing penguins, but some of what they throw at us in this section just makes you want to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

I'm curious: what exactly did they say? I don't care about spoilers, I'm not going to see this movie anytime soon.

Post by **James** » November 20th, 2006, 7:11 pm

ShyViolet wrote:
This film comes from the loony fringe wing that makes the rest of them look bad. Yes we can buy talking and dancing penguins, but some of what they throw at us in this section just makes you want to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
I'm curious: what exactly did they say? I don't care about spoilers, I'm not going to see this movie anytime soon.

MAJOR spoilers:

Did you see any of that in the previews?! Didn't think so!

When you see it with the serious dramatic voiceover during these sections, it is more obvious that someone is spinning their wacky, environmental, we-are-all-one-with-the-animals beliefs in a way over the top fashion.