![]() MONDELLO: And who sound like Elijah Wood, Robin Williams and a lot of terrific singers. Here it places a storybook fable in a persuasively real world, just one populated by penguins who can tap dance like Savion Glover. There it made the world look like a storybook. Camera crews spent two years finding towering glaciers and craggy Antarctic mountains that they could mesh with their amazingly lifelike animated penguins using a technique called motion capture, the one used to make that Christmas movie The Polar Express. You could say he's eased into computer animation from the real world, which may be why this movie is so visually breathtaking. MONDELLO: Happy Feet is directed by George Miller, who started out making Mel Gibson's Mad Max movies and who later made the kid flick Babe. WILLIAMS: (As character) Yeah, I heard an animal once do that, but then they rolled him over. Unidentified Man #3 (Actor): (As character) I think he's singing. WOOD: All right (Singing) (unintelligible) Unidentified Man #2: I shall sing like the birdies do, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. Unidentified Man #2: You a bird, ain't you? ELIJAH WOOD: (As Mumble) That's the problem. ![]() ![]() Unidentified Man #2 (Actor): (As character) All you gotta do is sing. Then as a teenager he meets some rockhopper penguins who've hopped from Argentina, judging from their accents, and who take him under their wing, so to speak. MONDELLO: Conformity being much prized in the emperor penguin community, Mumble becomes a bit of an outcast as he grows up among his crooning cousins. Unidentified Man #1: Well, it just ain't penguin, okay? Unidentified Man #1: I wouldn't do that around folks, son. Unidentified Child (Actor): (As Mumble) I'm happy, pop. Unidentified Man #1 (Actor): (As character) A little wobbly in the knees huh? ROBIN WILLIAMS (Actor): (As character) What do you make of that? What he can do though, from the second hid feet touched the ice, is dance. Other Emperor penguins seem to have no trouble finding their inner song, but his attempts but his attempts sound like fingernails on a blackboard. Bob Mondello says it's positively teeming with penguins, and this time they're not marching they're singing and tap-dancing.īOB MONDELLO: In a world were meeting the penguin of your dreams requires that you croon a tune all your own, little Mumble is at a disadvantage. If March of the Penguins whetted your appetite for more of those little tuxedoed guys from the frozen South, you probably already know about the new animated film Happy Feet.
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