But I liked how subtle Miller and company's handling of their Global Warming and Climate Change message was this time, how they don't hit the viewer over the head with their proselytizing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2012

While 'Happy Feet' focused on the tap-dancing Emperor Penguin named Mumble... this one spends more time with his little son Erik... who is simply irresistible. If one agrees that penguins in general are cute, Erik ups the ante considerably.

| Dec 2, 2011

Preaches acceptance but requires assimilation. You dance or you die. Join the party, swim with the swarm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2011

Effectively, it's a few computer-generated birds staring into the abyss for an hour and a half. I know exactly how they felt.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2011

A shambles that's somehow both terribly lazy and hernia-inducingly overcranked at the same time. Disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2011

If there's a saving grace, it's the visuals, especially the beautiful scenes of orange krill. But that's about all.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2011

Overshadowed by more darkness, menace, heartache and anxiety than any talking-animal picture I can think of since Miller's last family-film sequel, the execrable Babe: Pig in the City.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2011

It's still a lot of fun to see dancing, singing penguins, but the meandering storyline never catches hold.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 20, 2011

Happy Feet was one of the greatest and most original animated films, but the sequel can't even decide what it's about for the first 40 minutes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 18, 2011

While 'Happy Feet' focused on the tap-dancing Emperor Penguin named Mumble... this one spends more time with his little son Erik... who is simply irresistible.

| Nov 18, 2011

We get a feeling we've seen it all before.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2011

The gotta-move protagonist of the first animated, Antarctica-set feature -- a misfit young Emperor penguin named Mumble -- returns for the sequel. Only this time he's all grown up... and a lot less fun.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 18, 2011

The film reminds viewers young and old that to make a positive change, sometimes the little guy at the bottom of the food chain needs to stomp his feet.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 18, 2011

Other than commercially, more is less in this antic, not so funny sequel to the 2006 blockbuster.

| Nov 18, 2011

The disjointed, undercooked sequel to the Oscar-winning 2006 hit aims to tell life lessons and celebrate pop music, but this would-be toe-tapper is curiously out of step.

| Original Score: C | Nov 18, 2011

Much like its Oscar-winning predecessor, the story focuses on lads and dads, though there are strong mama figures and daughters, too.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 18, 2011

Follows in the original's footsteps on a more reasonable scale while sparing audiences an emotional ambush.

| Nov 18, 2011

It's hard to resist dancing penguins, but "Happy Feet Two" may make you want to try.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The movie's bereftness of invention can be measured by how no story element builds on another. Instead, "Happy Feet Two" is plotted so that a bunch of disparate things happen, until it's time to end the movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 17, 2011

97 minutes of nonstop joy.

| Nov 17, 2011