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Wow, what a year at the movies, especially for the kids!
We thought that it was a real treat for us as a family to go and see Happy Feet, but to have that followed up a short time later by Spider Man 3 was yet another great treat! No movies like these when I was a kid – lucky to get to see the Lone Ranger or Jungle Jim back then!
I’d never heard an emporer penguin sing so well until I heard Memphis in this movie! Come to think of it, I’d never heard a penguin sing anything anytime, but I guess that’s beside the point!
Mumbles the penguin, is an outcast due to the fact that he can’t sing, and so he takes up dancing instead! He then ends up saving the entire colony of penguins, along with elephant seals, seagulls and anything else that eats fish in and around Antarctica.
Along the way, he fights and beats killer whales, outwits hungry seagulls, and wins over the entire human race, stopping them from taking fish from the Antarctic by getting the United Nations onside.
The girl penguin of his dreams, Gloria, sings up a storm, and with music that appeals to most, this movie is sure to get your foot tapping!
Even the late Steve Irwin makes a cameo appearance (see if you can spot him). I’m not going to pretend to be objective with this one – I loved it, and bought the DVD too!
Spider Man3 might not have the general appeal of the crowd from the Frozen Continent, but it had already broken box office records just after days its release! Lots of action and the special effects are just outstanding in my opinion (maybe because of the fact that I only ever got to see Jungle Jim fight his way out of deadly quick sand, pirates attacking ships and mundane stuff like that when I was a kid).
I probably wouldn’t recommend this for very young kids, unless you want to be up all night with them. Older kids with younger kids might want to get a babysitter and check it out first!
Although this super hero was around in comic books when I was growing up (back when Noah was a lad), there was never anything like this, and it makes me wonder, what’s next?
If I was still a teenager I might hanker for some of the entertainment in Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Brave New World’, but by the time things get that advanced, I think that I will be well past it.
I remember a few years back that the movie theatres were pronounced as good as dead with the advent of video and dvd. Now, the movie houses are enjoying a renewal, while the local video rental store seems to be facing a more uncertain future!
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