I saw Happy Feet last night and I gotta say I was pleasently surprised… in a weird way. As an animator, I naturally frown on any mo-cap movie that comes out, so maybe that’s why I had low expectations. Plus I was a little peeved that it won “best animated feature” when it wasn’t really “animated,” it was mo-cap’d. But whatever… I don’t really care much for the “look” of the penguins either, but there was some good freakin cg on the seals, elephant seals, whales, etc.

think the point that really got me interested (spoiler, stop reading if you haven’t seen it and still care to) was when the little guy go put in the glass display, and started losing his mind. Catching fish from the sky, and just standing with his head against the wall. I don’t know if anyone has seen penguins in glass displays, but some of them do that! It’s the creepiest thing, like they lost there mind or something. Then they go and put live action humans running around on cell phones, something I would normally consider blasphemy! But because it so unexpected I liked it. I also enjoyed the ending, they all danced for the humans and won there fish back

My roommate Jeremy made a pretty good comment describing the pacing of the film: