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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: In a year rich with animation options, Happy Feet stands head and shoulders above its competition. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: In a genre that relies on too many forgettable wisecracking critters who talk like out-of-work sitcom story editors, Miller's eco-musical goes its own way, defying the usual formulas. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Easily the best animated film of the year. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: 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. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Was I enchanted, entertained or even diverted for its 108-minute running time? Not really. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This curious ecological parable was directed by George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City), who still has an eye and a sense of humor but on this particular outing can't get the script he wrote with three others to make much sense. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: 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. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: An ambitious, sporadically intriguing, occasionally hilarious but weird pastiche of grab-bag references to pop-culture history. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I think kids will love it, because the penguins are cute. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Happy Feet is colorful, energetic, fast-moving, visually eyepopping and slightly soulless. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: [Happy Feet's] a gorgeously rendered marvel that pulls out all the stops to wow its viewers. Read more
Annemarie Moody, Arizona Republic: Tap-dancing and R&B-singing emperor penguins make Happy Feet a fun, animated family movie, complete with adorable penguin chicks and a breathtaking icy landscape. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Happy Feet is one of the most visually ravishing CGI films yet rendered. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: After everything from March of the Penguins to Madagascar, you may think you've seen enough penguins, but you've never seen them like this. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The animation dazzles. The baby birds are fluffy darlings. The script has its moments, the dance bits are a blast. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: When Happy Feet isn't being pretty darn fun, it's just plain pretty. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Here's all you really need to know about Happy Feet: Singing penguins! Dancing penguins! Funny penguins! We're killing them! Smile for the holidays! Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy from George Miller. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: For all the time, effort, and song royalties lavished on Happy Feet, the new computer-animated blockbuster spends much of its time dancing on thin ice. Read more
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: Writer and director George Miller, the artistic force behind the beloved Babe and the Babe: Pig in the City movies, brings a concern for penguins that recalls the devotion shown by March of the Penguins. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Antarctica is a beautiful blue paradise, and the final set piece, in which penguins and humans tap their way to a unity of green-minded spirit, is a small masterpiece of conciliatory wackiness. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: This isn't some overreaching Pixar wanna-be, but a rich, absorbing story that isn't content to dazzle you with effects, but rouse your spirits. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: The production numbers are delightful, but the musical fun is marooned in cliched storytelling. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: If you fell in love with the wingless heroes of last year's documentary hit March of the Penguins, prepare to surrender completely to George Miller's computer-animated musical/adventure Happy Feet. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, the director George Miller cant help but go dark and deep. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Robin Williams saves Happy Feet. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The ingredients for greatness are there. It's too bad the movie lost its way on the approach to the finish line. I recommend Happy Feet, but not as enthusiastically as I wish I could. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: Overall, this is an enjoyable ride, despite the occasional preaching. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: [Writer/director] Miller has tried to make three or four different movies at once, the result occasionally lapsing into a state of noisy incoherence. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: 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. Read more
Stephen Garrett, Time Out: Awkward but graceful, derivative but daring, Happy Feet is, indeed, a flightless bird in the best and worst sense. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The dazzling animation, catchy songs and Broadway-worthy dance numbers give the film even broader appeal. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: George Miller's long-in-the-works dive into full-blown computer animation drapes a relatively conventional story, about a young penguin's struggles over being 'different,' in striking visuals, invigorating songs and lively characterizations. Read more
Jordan Harper, Village Voice: Even the wee ones may start to notice something's amiss when the movie's theme goes from "be yourself" to 'we must regulate the overfishing of the Antarctic oceans.' No, for real. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Director George Miller imbues every sequence with extraordinary fluidity and visual invention. Read more