Happy feet

Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated comedy-drama film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North America on November 17, 2006. It is the first animated feature film produced by Kennedy Miller in association with visual effects/design company Animal Logic.
Though primarily an animated film, Happy Feet does incorporate live action humans in certain scenes. The film was simultaneously released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format.[1] The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility. Unfortunately, that was not possible because Warner Bros., the film’s production company, was on too tight of a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D. Their previous release of The Ant Bully in IMAX digital 3D had cost the company a big amount of money, so they did not have too much to spare for Happy Feet. [2] Happy Feet won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
The film was dedicated in memory of Nick Enright, Michael Jonson, Robby McNeilly Green, and Steve Irwin.

Set in an Antarctic emperor penguin colony, the film established that every penguin must make a unique song called a "heartsong" to attract a mate. If the female likes the male and his song, and if it fits with the female's and helps complete it, the two penguins mate. This is based in fact, since emperor couples court each other and recognize one another by their unique calls. One penguin named Norma Jean (voiced by Nicole Kidman) sings the song "Kiss", whereupon a male penguin named Memphis (voiced by Hugh Jackman) sings "Heartbreak Hotel". Norma Jean chooses him as her mate. They couple and Norma Jean lays an egg. The egg is left in Memphis's care while Norma Jean and the other females leave to fish for several weeks. While the males are struggling through the harsh winter, Memphis drops the egg, briefly exposing it to the freezing Antarctic temperatures. The resulting chick - the film's protagonist, Mumble (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) - has blue eyes, ever-lasting down feathers, a late hatch and a terrible singing voice. However, Mumble has a talent that none of the other penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing.
This ability, however, is frowned upon by the colony's elders, who do not tolerate deviance of any kind. As a result, Mumble is ostracized throughout his childhood, with only his mother and his best friend Gloria (voiced by Alyssa Shafer) to turn to for compassion. One day Mumble wanders into a secluded area, where he is free to be himself and dance. But Mumble is interrupted when the Boss Skua (voiced by Anthony LaPaglia) and his posse Dino (voiced by Danny Mann), Frankie (voiced by Michael Cornacchia), and Vinnie (voiced by Mark Klastorin) fly down and plan to consume the dancing baby penguin. Mumble stalls by asking the leader of the pack about a yellow band that is attached to his right ankle. The Boss Skua tells Mumble that he had gotten abducted by "aliens"; the result leaving him with the mysterious yellow band. The "aliens" the Skuas bird speaks of are actually human beings. Mumble narrowly escapes the hungry birds by falling into a small crevice. Mumble grows into an adult (voiced by Elijah Wood), still half-covered in fluffy down.
Mumble's class is graduating, and although Mumble has not graduated, he joins them on their first unaccompanied trip into the ocean. His class ends their day by partying on an iceberg. Mumble constantly interrupts the singing party and is forced to enjoy the party on a small, separate iceberg. Mumble dozes off and wakes to find himself alone; his class gone. A hungry leopard seal (voiced by Roger Rose) chases him off the small iceberg, and the penguin finds himself far from his home and within the carefree colony of adelie penguins. These adelie penguins are small in stature, but fiercely loyal to those they call friends. He quickly befriends a small group of bachelors who form a club of sorts called the Amigos: the leader, Ramon (voiced by Robin Williams), the brothers Raul (voiced by Lombardo Boyar) and Nestor (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), and twin brothers Rinaldo (voiced by Jeffrey Garcia) and Lombardo (voiced by Johnny A. Sanchez). The Amigos quickly embrace Mumble's dance moves and assimilate him into their misfit group.

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