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This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However, Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean, thinks this little habit is cute, his dad, Memphis, says it "just ain't penguin." Besides, they both know that, without a Heartsong, Mumble may never find true love. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria, happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange "hippity- hoppity" ways. Mumble is just too different--especially for Noah the Elder, the stern leader of Emperor Land, who ultimately casts him out of the community. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins--the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon, the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with... Written by
Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
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WARNING: May Cause Toe-Tapping.
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Release Date:
17 November 2006 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Happy Feet: The IMAX Experience
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Box Office
Budget:
$100,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$41,533,432
(USA)
(17 November 2006)
Gross:
$197,992,827
(USA)
(4 May 2007)
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Technical Specs
Color:
Color
(Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Trivia
The dancers for the dance sequences not only had to wear motion capture sensor suits for their movement, but also had to wear special headgear to simulate the penguins' beaks to force them to accommodate the anatomical feature for their characters' dancing.
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Goofs
When Memphis and Norma Jean find each other in the crowd (when the females are returning), one penguin in the center of the screen walks through another penguin.
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Quotes
[
first lines]
Penguin #1:
[
singing]
Once there was a way to get back homeward.
Penguin #2:
[
singing]
Are the stars out tonight?
Penguin #1:
[
singing]
Once there was a way to get back home.
Penguin #2:
[
singing]
I only have eyes for you.
Penguin #1:
[
singing]
Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry.
Penguin #2:
[
singing]
For you.
Penguin #1:
[
singing]
And I will sing a lullaby.
Penguin #3:
[
singing]
With a song in my heart.
Penguin #4:
[
singing]
So tell me / Tell me something good / Yeah, yeah, yeah / Tell me that you love me. / Tell me, baby. / Tell me something good.
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Crazy Credits
Mumble, Gloria, Memphis, Norma Jean, Noah, Ramón, Lovelace, Mrs. Astrakhan and a baby penguin can be seen tap dancing under the credits while Song of the Heart by Prince is playing.
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Soundtracks
Let's Talk About Sex
Written by
Herbie Azor "Fingerprints"
WB Music Corp & Sons of K-oss Music Inc / Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty Ltd
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Overall, I enjoyed this movie and don't regret having gone to see it. I feel like the animators, actors doing voices and Savion Glover (hope I spelled that right!) wasted some of their efforts on an inferior-quality script.
I admire the environmental theme, but felt like it was being shoved down our throats .. with no real solutions suggested, either. Some portions of the script were not explained well .. like how on earth Mumbles got back from the zoo to his family. Okay .. and why can't Mumble molt correctly, and why does his face look different from all of the other adult penguins? That's never explained, either.
I laughed and smiled my way through the first half of the movie, and it felt like the second half dragged on endlessly and made little sense. :-< I was expecting to love this movie a lot more than I did.