As Mumble and the boys return, they discover their family and friends are all trapped, and must try and find a way of rescuing them from starvation.
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Meanwhile, across the sea on a distant part of Antarctica, a massive iceberg has broken free of the sheet ice and heads directly towards the Emperor Colony, slamming into the only entrance point and effectively cutting the colony off from the outside world. Sven has set himself up as a replacement for Lovelace (also Robin Williams) in that he’s a messianic figure who’s words are perceived as a holy truth of sorts, and he quickly becomes something of an icon to the trio of young penguins. Erik, ridiculed by those around him, leaves with his two friends, Atticus (L’il P-Nut) and Bodicea (Meibh Campbell) to follow Ramon (Robin Williams) back to his home colony across the ice, where they are surprised to discover that the Adelie colony is now in the thrall of a flying penguin named Sven (Hank Azaria). Mumble (Elijah Wood), now partnered with Gloria (P!ink replaces the late Brittany Murphy) and is the proud father of Erik (Ava Acres), a young penguin who’s reluctant to try dancing like his father. The Emperor Penguins are still living in their Antarctic home, nestled between the ocean and a sheer cliffs of the ice shelf. The Antarctic version of a back-alley drug deal.
The majority of the voice cast from the previous film are all back (although Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman make cameo appearances only) and we’re introduced to the “next generation” of characters in the franchise through Mumble’s children and friends, as well as a new “Lovelace” character in Sven, a geographically ambiguous puffin who’s become something of a Messiah figure. Sure, Two combines dance and song, set to another playlist of popular music (the majority of which I’m unfamiliar with thanks to a constant diet of film soundtrack music over the last six months) and features a plenthor a of new characters to get to know, but the underlying message of the previous film is missing here: instead, Happy Feet Two is a film about survival against an accident of nature, instead of the involvement of mankind. Happy Feet’s whilrwind of song and dance together with an unsubtle message about the environtment is all but missing in Happy Feet Two, which is a shame because I was quite looking forward to a follow-up to that kind of storytelling with this one. It’s a kids film, definitely, and a young adults film, surely, but any serious critic worth their salt will probably baulk at the dearth of a key villain or the lack of genuine emotion in the story’s non-environmental slant. This isn’t a film for those of you who hate rambling, musical adventures with cutesy-pie characters and very little actual narrative tension. Happy Feet Two isn’t a film for everyone, even if it’s marketed as such. While the bleak themes of the original film are nowhere to be seen this time, and the religious undertones generally avoided as well, this clip-clapping sequel will still entertain all but the most hard-hearted cynical critic, even if the addition of Hank Azaria’s from-New-Zealand-but-speaks-with-a-Mexican-accent puffin does tend to grate a little. What we think : Nowhere near as terrible as some would have you think, Happy Feet Two was perhaps never quite needed as a film and yet still finds its own way as an entertainment. Synopsis: After a rogue iceberg collides with the Emperor Penguin colony’s home, trapping them beneath enormous walls of ice, Mumble and his friends must traverse the ice of Antarctica to find allies to save his family. Principal Cast : Voices of Elijah Wood, Alicia Moore (P!nk), Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Ava Acres, Benjamin “L’il P-Nut” Flores, Sofia Vergara, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Common, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Anthony LaPaglia, Meibh Campbell, Richard Carter.
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