"Happy Feet"

[nebula]

I saw the movie Happy Feet today.

Thumbs up: Well produced, awesome animation, good humor, engaging story.

Thumbs down: A bit too much "mating" focus for the kids, IMHO; Liberal agenda themes - the penguines have a nature religion, religion is not portrayed as good for society, the first sign of civilization is a church just before seeing the waste dump remains of I guess oil refining or something ( does anyone else see something incredibly - eh-hem - odd with this picture), and the idea that emotions would win out over the profit and resources.

[billie]

thanks for that neb

[nebula]

You're welcome!

[jeffnevins]

As Worthy's resident animator, I try to stay informed of animation news. I saw on a link from Animation Nation to Fox news that a guy reviewed it similarly & was slammed way out of proportion by haters. I don't see a lot of the CG animal films (there's a glut). Thanks for the heads-up for folks here.

[Scarletprayers]

Neb, I was thinking about taking my grandson, thanks for the heads-up, I don't think we will be going.

[ray]

I saw the movie Happy Feet today.

Thumbs up: Well produced, awesome animation, good humor, engaging story.

Thumbs down: A bit too much "mating" focus for the kids, IMHO; Liberal agenda themes - the penguines have a nature religion, religion is not portrayed as good for society, the first sign of civilization is a church just before seeing the waste dump remains of I guess oil refining or something ( does anyone else see something incredibly - eh-hem - odd with this picture), and the idea that emotions would win out over the profit and resources.

I think therefore I'm not LOL any way I think that too many times we have become product of own society. Like in the ICE AGE Thread the person notice two only 2 pieces if foul language. But today I wonder what is fould to you is not foul to someone else because we are so prone to even notice the foul or bad words used in a movie.

My pastor was telling us how he did not want his children saying the "S" word in the house and immediatly everyone thought what that "S" word until he said the "S" word is "stupid" than you heard this big sigh of relief because we all though he was talking about the other "S" word.

So what words are considered bad or foul in your house may not be the same.

In this movie Happy Feet you say there is too much reference to "mating" like the foul or bad language I'm sure i would have missed it because of what we are able to see on TV and other movies today. Most parents today think oh well its animated it will be safe for my children to see. I don't know about you but I have noticed on TV that some of the animated shows are pretty tell all be all and little more revealing than some of todays soap operas.

Society has taught us that this is normal part of life through mass media weather its right or wrong, mostly wrong.

However, I would not mention the mating thing to your kids but if they pick up on it, it would be great time for educational momement between you and your child to explain what they saw. I figure by the time they reach 6th grade they have propably alreay seen over 1,000 or more types of mating sences on TV but they just don't have the vocabulary to express what they are seeing.

I was listing to a comedian the other day and his wife told that he had to have the talk with his son. Being the brave new thinking dad he said why don't you son tell me what you know and I will fill in the blanks. 30 minutes later the dad pulled at a note pad and starting taking notes because his son knew way more than dad. Now that is sad. but this is the way society has trained us today.

[nebula]

Well, when one of the penguins sings, "Let's talk about sex baby, let's talk aboutyou and me" - there's not a whole lot of room for imagination.

[nebula]

As Worthy's resident animator, I try to stay informed of animation news.

Well, if you are looking for animation lessons - that was one of the best aspects of the movie. The animation was incredible!

It's just what they did with the story that was *gag*.

[Christ's Free Servant]

One of my d-i-l's thought it would be a fun family thing to take the grandchildren and the adult children to see "Happy Feet" this morning, so we took 3 cars of people (11 in all) and drove to NC where the ticket price was supposed to be a lot cheaper, but they raised the price two weeks ago. We sat down for two hours of what we thought was a kids' movie, but oh, did we get a surprise.

All the adults (8 of us) picked up on the not-so-subtle messages throughout the movie - messages that belief in God is bad, man is bad, animals are good, being "different" is good (could "Happy" be another word for "Gay"?), that we should rely on nature to teach us, not on God or any higher being, that church is associated with ignorance, hatred, intolerance and the bad treatment of animals and land/water, etc. There was also the message that we should not condemn sin and that "repentance" is a bad word. I saw God being mocked and his messengers being mocked, too. I saw the gay agenda being promoted in the main character who, because he was born with "happy feet" instead of the ability to sing, could not mate and could not have offsrping. My daugther listed off all the messages she saw in it, and there were more than what I'm listing here. We were all disgusted by it's blatant use of a kids' movie to promote a liberal political agenda. It's amazing how they can get so concerned about Penguins but you never see any movies being made about the attrocities of abortion, do you? Not out of Hollywood, anyway. We all just walked away feeling as though we wasted the morning. If I had not been there with all my kids and grandkids (minus 3), I would have walked out of it.

Afterwards my middle son, who is usually not that perceptive, asked me if this was something like "Pleasantville." I told him I felt it was a toned down version of some of the same messages as were in Pleasantville (one movie I did walk out of) and that if I were with my grandchildren at a movie like that, I would have picked them up and we would have all walked out together. I feel horrible that our youth are being fed this garbage. It makes me angry, in fact, that they use children's films to promote their lies. I'm all for saving the environment and for preserving animal life, don't get me wrong, but this was over the edge, if you know what I mean.

[Christ's Free Servant]

Well, when one of the penguins sings, "Let's talk about sex baby, let's talk aboutyou and me" - there's not a whole lot of room for imagination.

I agree! There is so much of this in children's movies, too. I have 3 granddaughters ages 4, 6 & 8, so I know. They like to get on Barbie.com when they are over here sometimes just to play the games on there, but some of the music that comes from that site has horrible lyrics for little girls to be listening to. Children today are exposed to far too much. It's dangerous!