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Ok, I know that these movies aren't exactly christmas related, but they are winter related, so in honor of December and Christmas, including Happy Feet from last week, I will be reviewing winter and christmas-themed movies. Hopefully this can be a recurring theme for the later years.
So, here's the sequel to this event and to last week's movie, Happy Feet 2.
This movie is much like the first in that it isn't exactly a conventional film, though the plot is much more evident than before. But first, the characters, since I want to save the plot for last.
We have a return of Mumble, Ramon, and Loveless from the first movie, but aside from Mumbles, the everyone from the first movie has been designated to background character status. Though it is interesting to see old secondary voice actors from the first movie returning to reprise their roles, like the skua who got abducted by "aliens"and such. We do though, get introduced to Erik, Mumble's son, and Sven, a Finnish Tufted Puffin who flew off to Antarctica. Sven is actually a very interesting character, being quite relatable as the movie goes on.
Erik is also an interesting character, playing the naive, but insecure child who can't find his place in the world. Though I'm a little uncomfortable with the underlying message behind the story.
As well as the story of Erik and Mumble, we also get the story of Bill and Will the Krills, two Krills that break away from their swarm and try to find a new life for themselves, only to eventually return to the Swarm with new knowledge.
The plot of the story goes as such. Erik is feeling alone and different as he is not a good dancer and his father has turned his entire civilization into dancers/singers. Running off with Ramon, who is also feeling lonely, with his two friends, Bo and Atticus. Bo is actually a very interesting secondary character, with her motto "an obstacle is nothing more than a challenge" ringing in the background of everything she does.
Erik and friends make their way back to Ramon's old colony where they discover Sven, a Puffin pretending to be a flying penguin due to the color of his feathers. Mumble eventually catches up with them and takes Erik home, but not before Sven imparts some very dangerous false hope about being able to fly.
They meet Brian the Beach Master, an Elephant Seal with a lot to prove. He ultimately gets stuck and needs Mumble to get him out, after which Brian swears an oath of gratitude to Mumble and leaves. Unfortunately, as Mumble and Erik were gone, a huge iceberg came by and blockaded all of Emperorland, leading to terror and confusion, as well as a lot of trouble. Skua try to take advantage, starvation is feared to come, and everyone's plans each begin to fail. Eventually Mumble goes to collect on his oath with Brian to get all the elephant seals to come help, but Brian refuses, being caught with his pride on the line. Luckily, Erik sings a wonderful operatic song that wins the hearts of the seals and they all help, leading to emperorland being saved and Erik finding his place in the world.
Now, I'm a little bit put off by this movie, but the ending does save it. What bothers me at first is that the whole point of the first movie was going outside of what society tells you, but here, Mumble continuously appears to be in the right and Erik and Sven are the delusional ones. What saves the movie from this is when Mumble is unable to convince Brian to help and instead of believing in the impossible like Sven says, or following his father, like Mumble says, Erik makes a beautiful song that touches all their hearts about it all. Proving his place in the world.
I also love that the subplot surrounding the two Krills is very homosexual. And by that I mean, the two male Krill are very clearly in love with one another.
Anyway, another beautiful movie, with beautiful music, my favorite song being the end when Erik sings and good night everyone
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