Happy Feet - Subversive anti-establishment propaganda?

idsunki · Post by **idsunki** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:35 am

So I just now finally saw Happy Feet. It struck me as delightfully subversive. The entire movie is about challenging authority and a belief in the Great 'Guin (basically religious extremists).

Also, space aliens.

So if you haven't seen it, find it somewhere and hit a matinee. I wouldn't recommend waiting for DVD because there are at least 2-3 scenes that require a theater for full effect.

Anyone else? Anyone?

Bueller?

BAMFCentral · Post by **BAMFCentral** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:12 pm

I will state most of the movie I liked but...

K... first off will say felt tricked once it was all said an done. None of the reviews I read said it was a green peace ad, so had I known that going in I would have been prepared.

For the parts that weren't, or were as advertised I did enjoy.

Spoilers....

The dancing penguins, songs, and the advertised message of being an outcast of society were well done. Really enjoyed the first swim sequence with the escape from the seal.

Did not enjoy the heavy handed greenpeace aspects. There were lots of ways they could have handled that. Did not like the fact real people entered the movie, that part really brought me out of the movie experience. Really hated the ending. And the fact they made a really complex issue seem so easy to solve.

Bamfing_Bob · Post by **Bamfing_Bob** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 11:29 pm

Yeah, I thought It was just going to be a fun kids movie. I was wrong. But other than the whole environmental statement, I thought it was a really cute movie.

Norvegica · Post by **Norvegica** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:31 am

What's wrong with the movie actually acknowledging that human actions effect other species and that by the same token, once we recognize the consequences of our actions, we can restore a balance that we've previously disrupted?

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:22 am

Alkuperäinen postittaja Norvegica
What's wrong with the movie actually acknowledging that human actions effect other species and that by the same token

Imo, kids do not need to acknowledge that stuff yet.
And this movie is meant for kids.

Norvegica · Post by **Norvegica** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 7:34 am

Oh, and Bambi was all hugs and kisses, wasn't it? And that anti-hunter/anti-forest fire movie came out in 1942. This is a Disney movie. The theme of humans negatively impacting nature is old.

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:32 am

Even if they have done it and its old.
Doesnt make it right.

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Nightcrawlis · Post by **Nightcrawlis** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:11 pm

Originally posted by Crocodile Hunter
Alkuperäinen postittaja Norvegica
What's wrong with the movie actually acknowledging that human actions effect other species and that by the same token
Imo, kids do not need to acknowledge that stuff yet.
And this movie is meant for kids.

Of course they're old enough to acknowledge that and besides theres always stuff for adults in 'kids' films like this, after all who do you think takes the kids to see the film?. I don't know what reviewers you've been reading/listening to but the ones I've heard from have mentioned the environmental statement in the film.

What you'd rather shield kids from knowing their actions effect others?

Crocodile Hunter · Post by **Crocodile Hunter** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:38 pm

Originally posted by Nightcrawlis
Originally posted by Crocodile Hunter
Alkuperäinen postittaja Norvegica
What's wrong with the movie actually acknowledging that human actions effect other species and that by the same token
Imo, kids do not need to acknowledge that stuff yet.
And this movie is meant for kids.
I don't know what reviewers you've been reading/listening to but the ones I've heard from have mentioned the environmental statement in the film.

...Did i ever say that there is no environmental statement in the film?
Heck, what were we discussing about?

Post by **steyn** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:29 am

I just liked the dance sequences, I ended up tapping my feet to the rhythm. And I kinda like the fact the hero had to challenge the authoritarian religious figure with the universal language of Dance, and get the girl in the end because of it. Besides, I think Kevin Bacon looked great in the movie............
hold the phone, I'm thinking of Footloose, what's Happy Feet about again?
Oh right, the same thing.

Spoiler

Anyway, I thought the head penguin guy was an idiot. Dammit man, The Great Guin made him like that, didn't you see the light show come out of his father's mouth when he knocked the egg off course?

{I misspelled head}

[Edited on 1/1/0707 by steynedvelvet]