To keep in step with Little Sibling's Weekend, the Varsity Theater will be showing the animated hit "Happy Feet." "Happy Feet" is an Academy Award-winning, comedy-drama flick. And the penguins are pretty cute too.
In the icy Antarctica, penguins find their soul mates with a special song called a Heartsong.,”
To keep in step with Lil' Sibs Weekend, the Varsity Theatre will be showing the animated hit "Happy Feet." "Happy Feet" is an Academy Award-winning, comedy-drama flick. And the penguins are pretty cute too.
In icy Antarctica, penguins find their soul mates with a special song called a Heartsong. Two emperor penguins, Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman) and Memphis (Hugh Jackman), pair up to have a baby (Elijah Wood). When Norma Jean is off with her friends for a few weeks, Memphis is in charge of the egg. Memphis drops the egg and exposes it to the freezing temperature. When their baby Mumble (rightly named) hatches, it turns out he has a terrible singing voice and worst of all – no Heartsong.
But boy, can he dance.
His uncanny ability is frowned upon by the colony's elders. As he grows, Mumble is shunned by most of the other penguins, only finding comfort in his mom and best friend Gloria (Brittany Murphy).
Through a series of unfortunate events, Mumble finds himself far from home and in unfamiliar territory. He befriends a group of misfit penguins who embrace Mumble's dancing. After Mumble tracks his way back to his homeland, the elders blame him and his dancing for the lack of fish and they exile him from the colony.
Mumble vows to find the real cause and travels across vast territories trying to solve the problem. He ends up in a penguin exhibit at a marine park, and tries to communicate with the "aliens" who surround him. Eventually his dancing skills pay off, and people begin to take notice. They release Mumble to the wild with a tracking device and he leads the humans home to his colony, where they realize they are overfishing the Antarctic waters.
Mumble, and especially the elders, learn a valuable lesson that being different isn't such a bad thing after all.
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