I found it deeply stupid, shrift. And yeah, best not to waste any more time on it, after that realization.

Oh, bless you. I thought the musical numbers were pointless and interminable, I had a lot of rage for the overt racism, and the fact that they presented the protagonist as mentally retarded because he was different made me want to stab the moviemakers in the face.

I have a three year old that keeps asking to watch it but I hope Surf's Up comes out on DVD or PPV soon so I can show him penguins and he'll be happy.

My mind is odd sometimes.

"Layla" was just playing on Launch. And it gets to the instrumental part at the end, and the images that run through my mind are from Goodfellas and all of those dead people that were involved in the airport heist.

"Layla" was just playing on Launch. And it gets to the instrumental part at the end, and the images that run through my mind are from Goodfellas and all of those dead people that were involved in the airport heist.

Not just you Aimee, not just you.

Did anyone else find Happy Feet, uh, deeply problematic?

Really. Really. Really disturbing. At the time, I thought it was just me thinking too hard.

Tell me more about the problems with this movie. I'm very curious.

8 months late to the party, but I saw Pan's Labyrinth last night. Um. I didn't like it very much. I can see how I would have liked it, but the nose-breaking scene damn near made me throw up (and thinking about it now upsets me to the point of tears), and I couldn't step out of that headspace to enjoy anything else. I can see what del Toro was doing, and I appreciate his genius, but that scene and a couple others killed any enjoyment I had of the rest of it. IOW, I agree with SA's assessment: SA "Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell" Dec 27, 2006 8:36:50 pm PST

Did anyone else find Happy Feet, uh, deeply problematic?

Yeah, me too. I could gloss over it in the theater, but as soon as I started thinking about it outside, I got cranky.

Tell me more about the problems with this movie. I'm very curious.

The tale of alienation, I could swallow. The ending just...I dunno...seemed too ridiculous. And that's in a movie with a Penguin voiced by Nicole Kidman singing Prince's "Kiss."

Tell me more about the problems with this movie.

My first problem is the brain damage angle. The protagonist, what's his nut, Mumble? Yeah, Mumble. When he's still an egg, his father accidentally drops the egg in the snow. He's late to hatch. When he hatches, he's happy and dancing. He's obviously in possession of his full mental faculties, but is regarded as mentally retarded by his father because penguins don't dance. He can't sing like all the other penguins, and at one point, Mumble's father announces to their entire community that Mumble is brain-damaged.

Yeah. The sacrificial retarded penguin would make me want to punch someone in the throat, but it got worse.

Robin Williams doing a Latino accent. Ugh. All the wee little penguins (Adelie, maybe?) were hot-blooded saucy lazy Latinos, and the Emperor penguin community reacted to them... basically like Conservative Republicans react to Mexican immigrants.

Sacrificial retarded penguin gets asked to leave his community because he's bad juju and to blame for the fish shortage, and also his friends are ethnic and scary.

Then they go on a quest to prove that the bad polluting humans are to blame and that Mexicans and Retarded People Can Be Heroes Too No Really.

At this point, I decided to turn off the movie and put it back in my mailbox before I started using it as a discus.

And I'm pretty sure the Antarctic skua were voiced as Italian thugs, but I might be disremembering that.