Speaking of jarringly bizarre endings ... the ending to this one actually somehow didn’t spoil the movie for me as much as it has for many. Moulin Rouge, March of the Penguins, An Inconvenient Truth and A.i. might sound like a weird combo – but that’s what Happy Feet is, and it’s even weirder than that. I think it might also be the best movie I’ve seen from 2006. It contains some of the best animation I’ve seen since Finding Nemo, some hilarious lines courtesy of Robin Williams, and made me want to do something about the “whole environment thing” about a million times more than Al Gore’s little lecture did. And I don’t know how it did this – it just reached in and touched my heart and left me wondering how the hell it got in there in the first place. I’ll really have to see it again to make sense of my own response to this wonderful movie. I thought nothing could beat Monster House in the animation genre last year – but this one beats everything back into the water.

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