CHILDREN/FAMILY
Run Time: 99
Release Date: 10/2/2012
PG
ROBIN WILLIAMS ELIJAH WOOD

Product Description

The sequel to "Happy Feet"?? the Academy Award??-winning animated smash hit?? "py Feet Two" returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica. Mumble?? The Master of Tap?? has a problem because his tiny son?? Erik?? is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance?? Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's "and grit" as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures - from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals - to put things right.

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The sequel Happy Feet 2 begins a few years after the 2006 original ended: Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) is now married to Gloria (Pink) and the father of Erik (Ava Acres)?? a chick who's afraid to dance. When Erik sees the puffin Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria)?? he decides he can learn to fly: Sven is the leader of a cult that preaches if you believe it?? it can happen. An unexplained seismic event causes a glacier to shift?? trapping Gloria and all the other emperor penguins: Mumble?? Erik?? and two other chicks must rescue them before they starve. What" as a familiar story about a diffident chick quickly becomes needlessly and hopelessly mired in subplots involving elephant seals?? skua gulls?? human explorers?? and a pair of renegade krill (voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon). The motion-capture animation is adequate at best?? with snow and water splashing around the dancing penguins to hide the fact that their feet aren't making contact with the ground plane. Endless tracking shots over the cracking glaciers recall the second <