![]() ![]() Three kids go off together– Erik, Atticus, and Bo. There is one intrepid girl penguin in the movie. Sven is another father figure to little Erik, as by the way is the other character voiced by Robin Williams– Ramon. Turns out Sven is actually a bird pretending to a penguin. His talents are celebrated by all, especially Lovelace (Robin Williams) Lovelace tells the long story of how he met Sven and the adventures they shared, shown in flashbacks. Subplot #3 The Mighty Sven (Hank Azaria) is a penguin who can fly. I can’t think of a think of a single reason why the krills must be males except to give Brad Pitt and Matt Damon parts. ![]() The homoerotic subtext would work fine as lesbianism. Hardly a line of dialogue would have to be changed. Even the real life krill world would be OK with the switch. But I honestly cannot figure out why the animators couldn’t push their imaginations just a little further and make the krills female. The animation here is absolutely beautiful and the imagination of picturing life from the krill perspective is impressive. Subplot #2 Matt Damon and Brad Pitt steal the show playing krills. Later, the dad seal returns the favor for Mumble so the male buddy motif is expertly woven in to the father-son motif. The dad seal ends up falling and Mumble saves his life. The dad seal does not want to back up because if he does, the lady seals will no longer be impressed by him. The elephant seal’s dilemma is that he refuses to “back up” to let the penguins pass. Never mind that this is a movie about penguins who sing and dance and talk to each other, it’s important that we all be realistic about gender roles in the seal world. Subplot #1 is about an elephant seal trying to impress his 2 sons– did you get that part about two sons? Perhaps the seal could have had a daughter? Perhaps the seal with the big role could’ve been a mom? Impossible, I know, because in real life, male seals lead the pack. And everyone says girls are the ones who care about relationships. Not only is “Happy Feet 2” a father-son story, which I expected, but there are no less than three subplots and guess what? All three are about male relationships with other males. So with this open frame of mind, I went to see “Happy Feet Two.”Įven I was seriously disappointed with this movie. The commenter wrote that I was wrong to assume the title referred to he, that many penguins in this movie dance, thus they can all be Happy Feet. ![]() A commenter responded that Happy Feet is not, in fact, the male character star’s name. The last time I blogged about “Happy Feet,” in its first incarnation, I wrote about how the movie was yet another about a male and titled for a male. ![]()
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