Happy Feet [* * *]

I didn't like this movie. The idea is good - that eventually the animals appeal to our better nature and we stop starving them to death and harming their environment.

But they go wrong somewhere in trying to make it all fun for kids. For eg., they make this little penguin a pariah then captured by a zoo and set free with a radio beeper attached to him.

All that he can do is dance for the humans. And when they see him dancing (communication, I guess), they study his environment and realise the penguins are starving to death, they decide to stop marine fishing around the antarctic.

Somehow, I think it's too hopeful. Kids know already that it's more complicated than that. Maybe the writers are talking down to them and giving them improbable solutions that take little effort.