Mumble sold out to commercialism, and the fact that he was happy with it in the end I felt subliminally encouraged the audience (mostly kids) that accepting defeat and changing oneself to guarantee a complacent life is the right way to go.
Wait, it's been a month or so since I've seen it but isn't it more the other penguins who sell out by abandoning their principles and jumping on the dancing bandwagon? But I was also more than a little wtf about the ending ("Maybe they're trying to tell us something!" "Well, we are disrupting their entire food chain." Just...what?).
I didn't hate the movie, but I don't think I can say that I really liked it. I don't think I appreciate it masquerading as a kiddie film, when it really wasn't. I can respect a message movie, but be up front about being a message movie. Or just be upfront about being a movie targeted at multiple audiences. I don't know. It's not like I can't stand to be surprised in a theatre and I want everything to be predictable, but it was just a fairly surreal and heavy experience when I thought I was just in line for a dancing penguin.
I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins.
I was totally put off by that. What was that line from Lovelace about retiring to his couch of indulgence and asking the ladies "Who first?" Ew.
And it was pretty scary! For a kids' film. I may have jumped once, or twice. Or five times.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.
It's curious, right? I wondered if maybe they were waiting until after the new year so they could control the news cycle, but I'm not sure why they'd feel the need to do that. It's Bonds related. It would control the cycle for ages on its own.
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Date: 2006-12-29 02:29 pm (UTC)Wait, it's been a month or so since I've seen it but isn't it more the other penguins who sell out by abandoning their principles and jumping on the dancing bandwagon? But I was also more than a little wtf about the ending ("Maybe they're trying to tell us something!" "Well, we are disrupting their entire food chain." Just...what?).
I didn't hate the movie, but I don't think I can say that I really liked it. I don't think I appreciate it masquerading as a kiddie film, when it really wasn't. I can respect a message movie, but be up front about being a message movie. Or just be upfront about being a movie targeted at multiple audiences. I don't know. It's not like I can't stand to be surprised in a theatre and I want everything to be predictable, but it was just a fairly surreal and heavy experience when I thought I was just in line for a dancing penguin.
I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins.
I was totally put off by that. What was that line from Lovelace about retiring to his couch of indulgence and asking the ladies "Who first?" Ew.
And it was pretty scary! For a kids' film. I may have jumped once, or twice. Or five times.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.
It's curious, right? I wondered if maybe they were waiting until after the new year so they could control the news cycle, but I'm not sure why they'd feel the need to do that. It's Bonds related. It would control the cycle for ages on its own.