![]() But while doing a playful tapdance in response to the little girl tapping on the glass, he creates a human fascination with this newfound "gimmick". "When Mumble is brought to the zoo, he is practically losing his mind and his will to live. They also honored Mumble's request to watch over his mother - a particular comfort to him since it turned out Mumble's dad had lost his way and Norma Jean would have been totally alone without "her boys."" They came across as immature and lazy around the female penguins (refusing the grown-up role of building the nest), but they probably saved Mumble and Lovelace's lives in the blizzard country. The Adelie Amigos also showed iron loyalty. ![]() Norma "Marilyn Monroe" Jean's unwavering loyalty to her son is touching I don't know if the real Marilyn was given a similar role. People aren't all one thing or the other, but a mixture. "There ain't been one day, not one day, that I done right by you." That part was heartfelt, but it shows how his grief overshadowed the (fewer) good things he did: his son grew up warm and fed and as safe as anyone could be. We could say he "got true religion" when he realized that it begins at home. (Fortunately Mumble was grown by now, so it wouldn't hurt him physically.) His horror at feeling he had to choose between his religion and his son was subtly portrayed, and mostly believable. Now, when Memphis got caught, he made his relationship with his child conditional. As long as Mumble's "happy feet" remained a secret, he wasn't going to send the child away. ![]() Memphis is actually a reasonable choice for the Guin to entrust this unusual child, since Memphis, a reckless fellow in his younger days, figured that he was hardly in a position to judge. How do the penguins know whether Mumble (like Queen Esther) might not have been sent for just such a time as this? His elders assume that Mumble has brought a curse upon their land it never occurs to them that the Great Guin, if it is a penguin deity worth following, already knows their suffering and what to do about it. Mumble/Mambo is not a true Christ figure. (Penguins are still largely innocent of us, as humans only discovered the last continent a few hundred years ago.) They simply had nothing in their background to account for a new invasive species called Man. The Wisdoms have kept their people warm and safe. That makes the Elders a (slightly) more sympathetic bunch, since there's nothing wrong with their faith or their ancient wisdoms. I've heard a lot of complaints about how most of the "denominations" illustrated were portrayed, but it's more complex than merely "Lovelace the con man" or "Noah the narrow-minded control freak." Noah and the elders remind me of Stiff Tail of Uhura's Song, with the difference that Noah denied the situation out of honest ignorance. There definitely are religious themes in this film: theodicy, sincerity, sincere people being sincerely wrong, inflexibility as a hindrance to growth, and "rejoice without ceasing" in the face of suffering. Too many people would try to make money off it like Michigan J. Having said that, the odds that someone actually would release a dancing penguin if they found one are slim. Therefore when all the penguins danced, it said Feed Me. "The first time around, I too wondered why the humans would assume that a dancing penguin equals "we need to stop overfishing the seas." Best guess is that Mumble taught them while they were studying him. "Mumble refuses to acquiesce to this kind of misology (he blames the fish recession on aliens, thusly discredited as a wild conspiracy theorist)." There’s a completely lovely scene where Mumble is placed in a zoo and sees himself surrounded by a wall of human faces (which all come with an extraordinary degree of photographic realism). It makes for an appealingly intelligent metaphor – a penguin with a tracking tag on its leg is seen as an abductee the remains of a mining base as alien artefacts and in one scene the image of an icebreaker moving through the fog becomes something akin to the mothership of lights from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). "The script has the clever idea of interpreting the penguins’ encounters with human civilization in terms of an analogue for alien abduction. NOTES - Metaphors in Happy Feet - Various interpretations from different reviewers
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