Pro-people protests at propaganda by penguin

The Sunday Telegraph ^ | December 3, 2006 | Philip Sherwell

[Mrs Ivan]

the UN fixed it!!!!!!!!!

Good grief! The rest of your description was bad enough, but WTF?

But wait a minute ... isn't that just their plot for the world - we'll all eat fish halal food and happily dance pray five times a day ... ;)

(I meant of course your description of the "plot" of the film, not the description itself!)

[5Madman2]

It's true-right at the end it shows people blathering under the UN Symbol-then a joint resolution to halt fishing hear the penguins home.

Then the penguins eating fish, dancing and singing.

I told my kids the UN couldn't organize a one car funeral procession.

[weegee]

Fox News presenter Neil Cavuto said: "What I found offensive is that they shove this in a kids' movie – you hear the penguins are starving because of mean old man, mean old companies."

I saw March Of The Penguins. Penguins die every year because they live in a harsh environment and don't eat for MONTHS at a time.

The Shakleton expedition also got stuck for 2 years in such a harsh climate. Miraculously none of the crew died while they were stuck down there. Death is NATURAL. Everything dies eventually. March of the Penguins showed death. Shouldn't the filmmakers have been chastised for not doing enough to save the penguins?

Does Happy Feet include the threats to penguins that do not include men and corporations?

[weegee]

WAIT A SECOND HERE!

The UN intervenes to stop the evil Americans from fishing near the penguins and then the penguins proceed to KILL THE FISH? Like Nemo?

Cute little fish?

The penguins kill cute little fish? When is the UN going to put a stop to this species holocaust?

[FierceDraka]

I LOVE cute little fish.

Especially when wrapped in rice, dipped in wasabi mixed with soy sauce, and served with a side of pickled ginger.

[5Madman2]

And they do not portray Shamu as the happy little friendly thing that's at Sea world either. They show the killer whale as it is in nature-deserving of the name.

Lots of mixed messages-very inconsistent. Just a very screwed up movie.

The real fantasy is that the UN got a damn thing done other than bloviating

[jmcenanly]

Casino Royale... wasn't that the name of a very strange episode of Startrek Generations?

The Royale http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68382.html was an episode of Star Trek:The Next Generation. It was a parody of the last part of 2001:A Space Odyssey

But, getting back to the penguin movie, it is clearly bait and switch. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was an advertisement for a soft drink. The commercials on television show it as Busby Berkeley on ice, not a Greenpeace production.

[dixiechick2000]

I took my grandones to see "Flushed Away" instead of "Happy Feet."
I have to admit that even I LOLed at that one.

Bumping your Python sketch.
It put a big smile on my face. ;o)

[NicknamedBob]

"Does Happy Feet include the threats to penguins that do not include men and corporations?"

Yes, including Skuas, (Seagulls), Leopard Seals, Killer Whales, and the danger of letting an egg cool.

If anyone should be upset, it should be the photographers of "March of the Penguins," who had to undergo the same ordeals as the penguins they were photographing.

The "Happy Feet" people just used computers.

[Watery Tart]

They got much more cheerful, waiting for Mrs. Jean-Paul Sartre....

[napscoordinator]

Domestic Total as of Dec. 3, 2006: $121,000,000

I am sure the people involved with this film are thrilled with Americans giving all this free publicity. Remember in Hollywood, there is no bad publicity. The complaints are just causing pique interest in people flocking to see the movie. I think if I were to go into movie business I would want a movie that would be talked about for weeks on end.