Miller ensures that a conceit - dancing penguins! - that might have seemed best left to the jokey attachments that clog up email inboxes is supple enough to carry a sardonic parable about the hypocrisy of Western consumers.

| Apr 2, 2019

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

You should see Happy Feet -- not only because it's stupendous, but also because it features the best dancing you'll see on the screen this year.

| Jun 29, 2007

Stands at the very top of the 2006 animated kid's film class.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 10, 2007

It's almost impossible to hate. It's not impossible to get a little bored, but that's another tune.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Awkward but graceful, derivative but daring, Happy Feet is, indeed, a flightless bird in the best and worst sense.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Offers a sucrose-enriched upgrade to the documentary March of the Penguins.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2007

Director George 'Babe' Miller has pulled off a coup with this one; he's raised the benchmark to a whole new level, both visually and conceptually. Bravo.

| Dec 30, 2006

Small kids will love the waddlesome dancing and colourful animation, but older viewers will likely be disturbed by the story's darker elements.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's going to take some time before I can look at the snowy breast of a penguin without imagining that it contains the tap-tapping heart of a Sammy Davis Jr.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2006

Was I enchanted, entertained or even diverted for its 108-minute running time? Not really.

Full Review | Nov 29, 2006

A bewildering combination of anthropomophic perversity and environmental polemic, all scored to cheesy pop hits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2006

Entertaining while you're watching it… On reflection, though, it feels a bit like a shell game in which the conjuror himself has lost track of where the pea is supposed to be.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2006

I think kids will love it, because the penguins are cute.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2006

[Happy Feet's] a gorgeously rendered marvel that pulls out all the stops to wow its viewers.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Nov 17, 2006

Happy Feet is the kind of musical comedy that might have swept the world if MGM had been based in Antarctica instead of Culver City.

| Nov 17, 2006

The dazzling animation, catchy songs and Broadway-worthy dance numbers give the film even broader appeal.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006

Imagine March of the Penguins with a pop soundtrack. Or maybe An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore doing his best Donald O'Connor impression. It's quite the mash-up, as intended, and it's cooler than a South Pole skinny dip.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006

An ambitious, sporadically intriguing, occasionally hilarious but weird pastiche of grab-bag references to pop-culture history.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2006

Don't little ones have enough to worry about without ecological concerns popping up in family entertainment? Happy Feet should have stayed light on its feet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006