"Happy Feet" Returns

Yeah, I'll say it: I wanna see this.




George Miller's original "Happy Feet" is easily one of the most bizzare family movies ever to be embraced as a mainstream hit (and Oscar winner!): Sold primarily in the guise of a cash-vacuum kiddie-flick about singing penguins, the actual film was something closer to a meta-commentary on the whole "singing animal" subgenre: The penguins are born capable of belting out pop-standards as a means of extra-sensory communication, and a "deformed" young bird (he can't sing, but tapdances instead) ends up in conflict with the Penguin Elders over his contention that the collapse of their food supply and ecosystem has been caused by Alien Invaders (read: humans) rather than being the will of the Penguin God. And yes, all this weirdness is acted out by - for the most part - photo-realistic CGI animals.

So... yeah, REALLY odd, unique movie; even if most people only remember it for the cute baby penguins - who, of course, star in this trailer.

Supposedly most of the original cast is back in some form, save - sadly - for Brittany Murphy, who passed away last year and has been replaced by Pink. On the worrisome side - the one penguin at the end looks like Mumble as a baby again; so I hope this isn't an "in-between-quel."