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Happy Feet (2006)

Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Dec 27, 2006

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

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Details Release Date: Nov 17, 2006; Rated: PG; Length: 105 Minutes; Genre: Animation; With: Brittany Murphy and Elijah Wood

Image credit: Happy Feet: Warner Bros.

DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Those other guys in penguin suits took No. 1

Why was Mumble the emperor penguin (Elijah Wood) born to tap-dance rather than sing like the rest of his ilk in Happy Feet, a moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy from George Miller, the guy who made Babe? Because Mumble is, you know, different but special in a March of the Penguins kind of way. Why was Robin Williams hired to voice two ethnic-accented fellow birds? Because once he kibitzed as a genie in Aladdin, and now, alas, he can’t be stuffed back into the freaking lamp.

Originally posted Nov 15, 2006 Published in issue #908 Nov 24, 2006 Order article reprints

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