9/27/2023 0 Comments Humanized mumble happy feet![]() Since he sounds (and looks) much younger to most people than his actual age (25) it’s another in his long line of impeccable role choices. Frodo alert: Wood also starring in this weekend’s Bobby hits all the er wrong notes to turn in a solid performance as the movie’s lead Mumble. His animated self obviously less in-your-face Williams’ dialogue does all the work in Feet and gives a performance that matches his beloved Aladdin Genie. voice-over roles like this one) whereas his mile-a-minute physicality was once a necessary evil to get the full 3-D effect of his personality. Nowadays–movie-wise at least–he’s better heard and not seen (i.e. After toiling around a while with his new buddies (of which two are voiced by Robin Williams) some of whom are “Latino penguins ” Mumble realizes his only chance at redemption is to find the source of the penguins’ current fish famine–and he’ll stop at nothing not even “aliens.” Robin Williams is quite the odd bird himself. Mumble has the voice of a puberty-stricken boy and is unable to keep a tune but he can dance like the dickens! His mother Norma Jean (voiced by Nicole Kidman) thinks it’s a cute habit but his father (voiced by Hugh Jackman) and the rest of the tight-knit community ostracize him. But with the birth of one penguin Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) the whole colony is shaken up. In Antarctica that’s how they stick together–it’s how they harmonize so to speak. In the beginning of Happy Feet you might think a handful of moviegoers forgot to silence their cell phones it’s just the emperor penguins singin’ their beaks off to one of any number of songs popular circa 2003.
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