Happy Feet Critic Reviews

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USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

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

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Happy Feet ends on an upbeat note with singing and dancing, but the weaknesses that precede it deflate the euphoria.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

The essence of this inventive though erratic animated feature is joyous music and eye-popping motion.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

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

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

While compromised by the uplift and affirmation that mainstream animation regurgitates like a mommy penguin, it also shows a remarkable persistence of vision. Even in a story about singing-and-dancing fat and feather, Mr. Miller can’t help but go dark and deep.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

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 Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

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

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