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gemfyreCuz I've got hap-hap-happy feet
The Good
- Singing and dancing! Always moves me, makes me happy/teary.
- Yay for animation that I haven't seen before (ever notice how all Pixar films look the same? Same goes for Dreamworks.)
- Some of the best animal behaviour portrayal. No angler fish traveling at unnatural speeds (ala Finding Nemo) or any of that foolishness. I was impressed when they properly portrayed how penguins feed their young - they even gave it humour value!
- Nice message about pollution/overfishing.
The Bad
- It pretty much maligns ALL humans. We're not ALL bad.
- Why are tap dancing penguins more important than any other species? Way to go for only paying attention to charismatic fauna.
- Plot holes. How does Mambo end up at a zoo in the U.S. (well, it seems like it's in the U.S.) Why, in a developed country is he put in with various other species of penguin - all with differing needs. I saw Fairy Penguins there and they don't live on ice at all. It would be more likely that he washed up on a beach in Tasmania or Albany and was taken to a bird rehab centre but likely died of exhaustion anyway.
- Why, once he started dancing did they decide to stick a radio tracker on him and take him back Antarctica (you'd hope they released him vaguely near his colony). I imagine the more likely scenario is that a dancing penguin would be seen as a money spinner and NEVER released at any cost.
- If only it was as simple as a tap dancing penguin, a few documentaries (I don't get why they imply that no-one knows penguins are down there in the Antarctic. They know about the penguins, they don't know about the leopard seals and the skuas and the snow petrels and all the OTHER species down there that are also under threat. If only they would allocate large no fishing areas, and if they would, it'd be even more brilliant if they could police them properly (which doesn't happen because humans are wankers - yes I realise that contradicts what I said at the start of the "bad" section).
- That tracking device was shown as being WAY too large. Someone on IMDB even thought it was surgically implanted which scares me. Trackers are tiny and glued to the feathers and lost with the moult (which generally happens once a year).
What I would change
- I think they should have found a research camp. They'd be found and that thing would be cut off Lovelace's neck and they'd get a feed and... sorry... wing tags. But they'd realise that the people who tagged them weren't all bad and actually helped them a little. Because that's what all this research/tagging is for, the benefit of all these species.
- It would have been worth having them talk to the Orcas. Maybe the Orcas could tell them where to go, or even give them a lift. They may be killers (no doubt about that, they DO toss their prey around like a rubber ball), but they're also extremely intelligent and for the movie could have put aside their ruthless play to assist the penguins - seeing as it would probably help them in the long run too.
Questions
How did a Rockhopper become the guru of an Adelie colony?
I'd see it again. And probably again, and again.
The Good
- Singing and dancing! Always moves me, makes me happy/teary.
- Yay for animation that I haven't seen before (ever notice how all Pixar films look the same? Same goes for Dreamworks.)
- Some of the best animal behaviour portrayal. No angler fish traveling at unnatural speeds (ala Finding Nemo) or any of that foolishness. I was impressed when they properly portrayed how penguins feed their young - they even gave it humour value!
- Nice message about pollution/overfishing.
The Bad
- It pretty much maligns ALL humans. We're not ALL bad.
- Why are tap dancing penguins more important than any other species? Way to go for only paying attention to charismatic fauna.
- Plot holes. How does Mambo end up at a zoo in the U.S. (well, it seems like it's in the U.S.) Why, in a developed country is he put in with various other species of penguin - all with differing needs. I saw Fairy Penguins there and they don't live on ice at all. It would be more likely that he washed up on a beach in Tasmania or Albany and was taken to a bird rehab centre but likely died of exhaustion anyway.
- Why, once he started dancing did they decide to stick a radio tracker on him and take him back Antarctica (you'd hope they released him vaguely near his colony). I imagine the more likely scenario is that a dancing penguin would be seen as a money spinner and NEVER released at any cost.
- If only it was as simple as a tap dancing penguin, a few documentaries (I don't get why they imply that no-one knows penguins are down there in the Antarctic. They know about the penguins, they don't know about the leopard seals and the skuas and the snow petrels and all the OTHER species down there that are also under threat. If only they would allocate large no fishing areas, and if they would, it'd be even more brilliant if they could police them properly (which doesn't happen because humans are wankers - yes I realise that contradicts what I said at the start of the "bad" section).
- That tracking device was shown as being WAY too large. Someone on IMDB even thought it was surgically implanted which scares me. Trackers are tiny and glued to the feathers and lost with the moult (which generally happens once a year).
What I would change
- I think they should have found a research camp. They'd be found and that thing would be cut off Lovelace's neck and they'd get a feed and... sorry... wing tags. But they'd realise that the people who tagged them weren't all bad and actually helped them a little. Because that's what all this research/tagging is for, the benefit of all these species.
- It would have been worth having them talk to the Orcas. Maybe the Orcas could tell them where to go, or even give them a lift. They may be killers (no doubt about that, they DO toss their prey around like a rubber ball), but they're also extremely intelligent and for the movie could have put aside their ruthless play to assist the penguins - seeing as it would probably help them in the long run too.
Questions
How did a Rockhopper become the guru of an Adelie colony?
I'd see it again. And probably again, and again.
