Happy Feet Critic Reviews

It's a gorgeously rendered marvel that pulls out all the stops to wow its viewers, but in spite of its crowd-pleasing ploys, it holds onto its integrity with a smart and surprisingly deep story.Read the full review

What's truly surprising about Happy Feet is not its giddily brilliant entertainment, its intimate knowledge of the culture or its toe-tapping music. It's how commonplace these qualities have become in computer-animated movies… Happy Feet may be just one of the crowd, but what a great crowd it is.Read the full review

No film with as many elements as Happy Feet is successful with all of them, and the romantic-emotional elements of this story feel overly familiar. But the music and dancing are fresh and new, and this strong an ecological message has not been seen since Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke."Read the full review

One of the very best directed animated films on record. Not surprisingly from the force behind the "Babe" movies, the attention to detail is phenomenal, the humor ample.Read the full review

This animated all-penguin musical is terrific fun.Read the full review

The movie's an uncategorizable mixture of the tacky and profound, and on some weird level, you have to respect it.Read the full review

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 the full review

The dazzling animation, catchy songs and Broadway-worthy dance numbers give the film even broader appeal.Read the full review

A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy.Read the full review