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Animal Logic
Village Roadshow Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures
Happy Feet Collection
Everybody dance now!
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
CinemaSerf
Jan 4, 2026 · via TMDB
When a young penguin is born to a colony that communicates largely via song, I felt it’s pain. Not only because of the endless set piece numbers “Mumble” has to endure, but because he’s completely tone deaf. Indeed, as Cynthia Erivo might have said, “…he couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket”. He can, however, dance. Boy can he dance. That’s no use though as his love interest “Gloria” has the voice of an angel and the curmudgeonly (and Scottish) elder “Noah” blames their sudden paucity of fish on this youngster’s inability to croon. Now shunned by his own tribe, and thanks to an encounter with a lithe and fearsome leopard seal, he is befriended by some more Hispanic guins and off they set to seek the sagely advice of “Lovelace”. He claims that he was the victim of an alien abduction and that they gave him a very special necklace made of plastic. "Mumble" reckons the aliens might be the source of the food problem, so they travel the breadth of the snowy continent, facing peckish orca and huge great elephant seals as they go, before discovering just who these extra-terrestrials actually are. It’s at this point that the environmental message of the film kicks in, and though that’s all perfectly laudable and clear, the plot loses it’s way and becomes something of a mess. Sure, it’s encouraging us not to be judgmental of those different to ourselves, or the masses; and it’s also showcasing the enormous damage caused to the seas and oceans by trawling and litter contamination, but the story doesn’t really emphasise any of these connections using “Mumble”, especially at a conclusion which is really quite rushed. At times this is quite a lively affair, but the threads are too bare and the characterisations too lacklustre to sustain this as a feature length animation. Condensing it into half an hour with a couple of catchy tunes might have done better; focused more on it’s messages, and allowed for his Fred Astaire impersonations to have more impact. It’s original and fine, but sadly forgettable.
Andre Gonzales
May 25, 2023 · via TMDB
It was at least a different kind of a movie. They do look cute. They looked pretty funny dancing.
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Elijah Wood
Mumble (voice)
Robin Williams
Ramon / Lovelace (voice)
Brittany Murphy
Gloria (voice)
Hugh Jackman
Memphis (voice)
Nicole Kidman
Norma Jean (voice)
Hugo Weaving
Noah (voice)
Anthony LaPaglia
Boss Skua (voice)
E. G. Daily
Baby Mumble (voice)
Magda Szubanski
Miss Viola (voice)
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Carlos Alazraqui
Nestor (voice)
Lombardo Boyar
Raul (voice)
Jeffrey Garcia
Rinaldo (voice)
Johnny A. Sanchez
Lombardo (voice)
Fat Joe
Seymour (voice)
Alyssa Shafer
Baby Gloria (voice)
Cesar Flores
Baby Seymour (voice)
Danny Mann
Dino (voice)
Michael Cornacchia
Frankie (voice)
Arif S. Kinchen
Skuas (voice)
Steve Irwin
Trev (voice)
Tiriel Mora
Kev (voice)
Lee Perry
Elder / Zoo Penguin (voice)
Alan Shearman
Elder (voice)
Larry Moss
Elder (voice)
Peter Carroll
Elder (voice)
Michelle Arthur
Adélie Chica (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker
Maurice (voice)
Roger Rose
Leopard Seal (voice)
Chrissie Hynde
Michelle (voice)
Richard Carter
Barry (voice)
J. Grant Albrecht
(voice)
Charles Bartlett
(voice)
Shane Baumel
(voice)
Kwesi Boakye
Additional Voices (voice)
A.J. Buckley
(voice)
Erin Chambers
(voice)
Rickey D'Shon Collins
(voice)
Scotty Cox
(voice)
Olivia DeLaurentis
(voice)
Chris Edgerly
(voice)
Efrain Figueroa
(voice)
Jeff Fischer
(voice)
Sonje Fortag
(voice)
Spencer Lacey Ganus
Additional Voices (voice)
Khamani Griffin
(voice)
Khadijah Haqq McCray
(voice)
Aldis Hodge
Additional Voices (voice)
Diane Michelle
(voice)
Noreen Reardon
(voice)
Eliana Reyes
(voice)
Mari Weiss
(voice)
Billy 'Sly' Williams
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Rachel York
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Warren Coleman
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Live Action Cast
Winston Cooper
Live Action Cast
Henry Nixon
Live Action Cast
Belinda Bromilow
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Dasi Ruz
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Helmut Bakaitis
Live Action Cast
Simon Westaway
Live Action Cast
Craig Ricci Shaynak
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Alan Zitner
Live Action Cast
Simon Whiteley
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Andrew Lesnie
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John Ashton Thomas
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Kelley Abbey
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Wade Robson
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Rohan Browne
Motion Capture Artist
Shannon Holtzapffel
Motion Capture Artist
Tyler Coppin
Thanks
Judy Morris
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Warren Coleman
Co-Director
George Miller
Director
P.J. Voeten
First Assistant Director
Margaret Sixel
Editor
Jason Ballantine
First Assistant Editor
Barbara Harris
ADR Voice Casting
Matthew Ferro
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Kristy Carlson
Casting
Bill Daly
Executive In Charge Of Post Production
Christopher DeFaria
Executive In Charge Of Production
Bruce Berman
Executive Producer
Dana Goldberg
Executive Producer
Graham Burke
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Doug Mitchell
Producer
George Miller
Producer
Olivia Lyne
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George Doering
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Paul Pesco
Musician
John Ashton Thomas
Orchestrator
John Powell
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Prince
Songs
Tim Davis
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Pablo Holcer
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VFX Editor
Andrew Jackson
Visual Effects Supervisor
George Miller
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John Collee
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Judy Morris
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