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CHILLY WILLY Robin Williams provides the voice of Lovelace in Miller's eccentric Oscar-winning animated feature Happy Feet
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Release Date: Nov 17, 2006; Rated: PG; DVD Release Date: Mar 27, 2007; Genre: Animation; With: Elijah Wood and Brittany Murphy; Distributor: Warner Bros.
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By Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

Filmmaker George Miller's career has taken him from Mad Max to Babe, so Happy Feet, a strange animated family film about ecocatastrophe and penguins singing ''Heartbreak Hotel'' should come as no surprise. This Oscar winner looks gorgeous, and the EXTRAS are few but eccentrically inspired. Miller dedicates an outtake to the late Steve Irwin, tap artiste Savion Glover offers instruction, and a bonus should go to whoever thought to toss in the 1936 Tex Avery cartoon classic I Love to Singa — another tale of a misfit bird with rhythm in his soul. A-


Posted Mar 21, 2007
 

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