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Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North America
on November 17, 2006. It is the first animated film produced by Kennedy
Miller in association with visual effects/design company Animal Logic.
Though primarily an animated film, Happy Feet does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes. The film was simultaneously released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format.
The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility.
However, Warner Bros., the film’s production company, was on too tight a
budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D.
Happy Feet won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the inaugural BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
The film was dedicated in memory of Nick Enright, Michael Jonson, Robby McNeilly Green, and Steve Irwin.
Every penguin sings a unique song called a "heartsong" to attract a mate. If the male penguin's heartsong matches the female's song, the two penguins mate. Norma Jean, a female penguin, sings "Kiss", whereupon Memphis, a male penguin, sings "Heartbreak Hotel".
Norma Jean chooses Memphis as her mate. She lays an egg, which is left
with Memphis while Norma Jean leaves with the other females to fish. While the males struggle through the harsh winter, Memphis accidentally drops the egg, briefly exposing it to the freezing Antarctic temperatures.
The resulting chick, Mumble, has blue eyes, ever-lasting down feathers,
and a terrible singing voice. However, Mumble has a talent that no
other penguin has ever seen before: tap dancing.
One day Mumble wanders into a secluded area, where he is free to dance
without any complaints. Mumble is interrupted when Boss Skua and his posse Dino, Frankie, and Vinnie attempt to eat him. Mumble stalls by asking the leader of the pack about a yellow band that is attached to his right ankle. The Boss Skua tells Mumble that he had been abducted by "aliens". Mumble narrowly escapes the hungry birds by falling into a crevice.
Years latter, Mumble, now an adult but still half-covered in fluffy down, joins his class graduates on their first trip into the ocean, where they find a large iceberg to rest on. After interrupting the graduates' song, Mumble is forced to leave, and finds a smaller iceberg. A leopard seal chases him off the iceberg. After escaping the leopard seal, he befriends a small group of bachelors which are Adele Penguins
who form a club called "the Amigos": the leader Ramon, the brothers
Raul and Nestor, and twin brothers Rinaldo and Lombardo. The Amigos
quickly embrace Mumble's dance moves and assimilate him into their
misfit group. Mumble's joy is cut short when he accidentally starts an avalanche and causes a hidden human excavator to tumble out from a glacier.
Driven by curiosity, he sets out to find the "aliens" responsible for
the machine. Mumble has a lot of questions, and the group suggests that
he ask Lovelace, a Rockhopper penguin
who answers questions in exchange for stones and is known as the guru.
Lovelace has the plastic rings of a six pack entangled around his neck,
which he uses to project his guru image. When asked if the rings were
from the aliens, Lovelace denies that aliens exists and claims that the
plastic rings were bestowed upon him by mystic beings.
In Mumble's old home, it is mating season, and Gloria is the center
of attention. Although she is surrounded by a large horde of suitors,
none of their heartsongs interest her. Ramon tries to help Mumble by
singing a Spanish version of "My Way".
Gloria is not fooled, however, for she knows Mumble cannot sing. She
then notices Ramon behind Mumble's back. Gloria becomes angry and turns
her back on Mumble. Gloria continues towards the other males visibly
distraught. As a last resort, Mumble tries to persuade her to sing along
to his tapping rhythm. Because of her affection for him, she complies.
As Mumble's beat speeds up, Gloria finds the chorus to her heartsong,
and realizes it is "Boogie Wonderland". Overcome with happiness that they can now be mates, the pair begin dancing, along with the other penguins.
Noah the elder sees their lack of fish
as punishment from the Great 'Guin for Mumble's dancing. Mumble tries
to explain about the mysterious "aliens", and that they are the cause of
the scarceness of fish, but only his mother and Gloria believe him.
Noah exiles Mumble from the colony. Mumble vows that he will find the
real cause of the famine. He and the Amigos return to Lovelace only to
find him being choked by the plastic rings. Lovelace confesses that he
got stuck in the rings while swimming near the forbidden shores. He
reveals that the forbidden shores are located past the land of elephant seals
and beyond the blizzard country. Mumble, the Amigos and Lovelace start
their journey. Gloria tries to come, but Mumble, fearing for her safety,
drives her off by insulting her singing talents. They travel across
vast territories till they reach the shore.
Mumble sees a boat and swims after it. He swims far, and is washed up
exhausted onshore. He is rescued and kept at Marine World with some
Magellanic Penguins. He tries to communicate with the "aliens", but when
his pleas fail, Mumble nearly succumbs to madness
after long confinement. When a girl attempts to interact with Mumble by
tapping the glass, he starts dancing, and soon a large crowd gathers.
He is released back into the wild, with a Tracking system
on his back. He leads the humans to his colony. The other penguins are
skeptical, but when Gloria notices the device, they realize that the
"aliens" exist. Convinced, the penguins, along with the elders, dance
with Mumble to get the humans' attention.
A research team arrives and film the penguins dancing. They bring the
footage back and a worldwide debate ensues. The governments realize
they are overfishing.
Antarctic fishing is banned, and the fish population recovers. At this,
the Emperor Penguins and the Amigos celebrate. In the final scene, a
baby penguin is seen dancing next to Mumble and Gloria, revealed to be
their son Erik in Happy Feet Two.
Cast
- Elijah Wood as Mumble
- Brittany Murphy as Gloria
- Hugh Jackman as Memphis
- Nicole Kidman as Norma Jean
- Hugo Weaving as Noah the Elder
- Robin Williams as Ramón and Lovelace
- Carlos Alazraqui as Nestor
- Steve Irwin as Trev
- Lombardo Boyar as Raul
- Jeffrey Garcia as Rinaldo
- Johnny Sanchez as Lombardo
- Miriam Margoyles as Mrs. Astrakhan
- Fat Joe as Seymour
- Elizabeth Daily as baby Mumble
- Alyssa Shafer as baby Gloria
Production
Miller cites as an initial inspiration for the film an encounter with
a grizzled old camera-man, whose father was Frank Hurley of the
Shackleton expeditions, during the shooting of Mad Max 2:
"We were sitting in this bar, having a milkshake, and he looked across
at me and said, ‘Antarctica.’ He’d shot a documentary there. He said,
‘You’ve got to make a film in Antarctica. It’s just like out here, in
the wasteland. It’s spectacular.’ And that always stuck in my head.” Happy Feet was also partially inspired by earlier documentaries such as the BBC's Life in the Freezer. In 2001, during an otherwise non-sequiter meeting, Doug Mitchell impulsively presented Warner Bros., studio president Alan Horn
with an early rough draft of the film's screenplay, and asked them to
read it while he and Miller flew back to Australia. By the time they'd
landed, Warner Bros. had decided to provide funding on the film.
Production was slated to begin sometime after the completion of the
fourth Mad Max film, Fury Road, but geo-political complications pushed Happy Feet to the forefront in early 2003.
An earlier cut of the film seems to have included a large subplot
regarding aliens in the extraterrestrial sense, whose presence was made
gradually more and more known throughout, and who were planning to
siphon off the planet's resources gradually, placing the humans in the
same light as the penguins. At the end, through the plight of the main
character, their hand is stayed and, instead, first contact is made.
This was chopped out during the last year of production, and has yet to
see the light of day in a finished form, although concept art from these
sequences were showcased at the Siggraph 2007 demonstration, and are available online, as well.
The animation in Happy Feet invested heavily in motion capture technology, with the dance scenes acted out by human dancers. The tap-dancing for Mumble in particular was provided by Savion Glover who was also co-choreographer for the dance sequences.
The dancers went through "Penguin School" to learn how to move like a
penguin, and also wore head apparatus to mimic a penguin's beak.
Happy Feet needed an enormous group of computers, and Animal Logic worked with IBM
to build a server farm with sufficient processing potential. The film
took four years to make. Ben Gunsberger, Lighting Supervisor and VFX
Department Supervisor, says this was partly because they needed to build
new infrastructure and tools. The server farm used IBM BladeCenter
framework and BladeCenter HS20 blade servers, which are extremely dense separate computer units each with two Intel Xeon processors. Rendering took up 17 million CPU hours over a nine month period.
Music
Happy Feet is a jukebox musical,
taking previously recorded songs and working them into the film's
soundtrack to fit with the mood of the scene or character. Two
soundtrack albums were released for the film; one containing songs from
and inspired by the film, and another featuring John Powell's instrumental score. They were released on October 31, 2006 and December 19, 2006, respectively.
Accolades
Won
Academy Awards
- Best Animated Feature
60th British Academy Film Awards
- Best Animated Feature Film
Golden Globes
- Best Original Song - "Song of the Heart" by Prince
American Film Institute Awards 2006
- Honored as one of the Top Ten Best Films of the Year
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- Best Animation
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Best Animated Film
- Best Music
Heartland Awards
- The Truly Moving Picture Award
Kids' Choice Awards
- Favorite Animated Movie
British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Children's Awards
- Best Feature Film
Nominations
Golden Globe Award
- Best Animated Feature
Annie Awards
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Writing in an Animated Feature Production
Satellite Awards
- Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Grammy Awards
- Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, John Powell, nominee
- Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media: "The Song of the Heart", Prince, nominee
American Film Institute
- AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Animated Film
Top ten lists
The film appeared on numerous critics' top ten lists of the best
films of 2006, including AFI's Annual list, which is listed above. AFI's jury said:
"HAPPY FEET is a one-of-a-kind motion picture experience.
George Miller continues to paint outside the lines of traditional
filmmaking, and his genius expands upon the animated art form to
illuminate a world where penguins embrace dance and differences to
survive and thrive. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, as the
environment, religion and the chasm between generations enrich this
sweet and subtle tale - one that is fun and funny, brilliant and
beautiful, groundbreaking and global in its message."
- 1st - Jack Matthews, The New York Daily News
- 1st - Stan Urankar, Sun News
- 2nd - William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- 2nd - Mark Palermo, The Coast
- 3rd - Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
- 4th - Edward Douglas, ComingSoon.net
- 5th - Scott Foundas, Village Voice
- 5th - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
- 5th - Matthieu Santelli, Critikat (Film review, in French)
- 5th - Kurt Loder, MTV
- 5th - Missy Thompson, Tooele Transcript Bulletin
- 6th - Constance Garfinkle, The Patriot Ledger
- 6th - Carole Wrona, Critikat (Top 10 lists for 2006 films, in French)
- 6th - Lou Lumenick, New York Post
- 6th - Kyle Smith, New York Post
- 6th - Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
- 6th - Keith Cohen, Sun Newspapers
- 8th - Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
- 9th - Schlomo Schwartzberg, Box Office Magazine
Home media release
Happy Feet was released on March 27, 2007 in the United States in three formats; DVD (in separate widescreen and pan and scan editions), Blu-ray Disc, and an HD DVD/DVD combo disc.
Among the DVD's special features is a scene that was cut from the film where Mumble meets a blue whale and an albatross. The albatross was Steve Irwin's
first voice role in the film before he voiced the elephant seal in the
final cut. The scene was finished and included on the DVD in memory of
Steve Irwin. This scene is done in Steve's classic documentary style,
with the albatross telling the viewer all about the other characters in
the scene, and the impact people are having on their environment.
Video games
A video game based on the film was developed by A2M and published by Midway Games. It has the same main cast as the film. It was released for the PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, GBA, NDS, and Wii.
Reception
Box office
The film opened at #1 in the United States on its first weekend of release (November 17–19) grossing $41.6 million and beating Casino Royale for the top spot.
It remained #1 for the Thanksgiving weekend, making $51.6 million over
the five-day period. In total, the film was the top grosser for three
weeks, a 2006 box office feat matched only by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. As of June 8, 2008, Happy Feet has grossed $198.0 million in the U.S. and $186.3 million overseas, making about $384.3 million dollars worldwide. Happy Feet was the third highest grossing animated film in the U.S., behind Cars and Ice Age: The Meltdown. The film has been released in about 35 international territories at the close of 2006.
Critical reviews
Happy Feet received positive reviews from film critics, and received a 74% "Fresh" approval in the Rotten Tomatoes movie review aggregation site, with an 82% percent from the Top Critics.
Analysis
The film has also garnered, since its release, quite a bit of analysis and dissection from various places. Film critic Yar Habnegnal has written an essay, published in Forum on Contemporary Art and Society,
that examines the themes of encroachment presented throughout the film,
as well as various other subtexts and themes, such as religious
hierarchy and interracial tensions. And, Vadim Rizov of the Independent Film Channel sees Mumble as just the latest in a long line of cinematic religious mavericks.
On a technical or formal level, the film has also been lauded in some
corners for its innovative introduction of Miller's roving style of
subjective cinematography into contemporary animation, among other
things.
Sequel
Happy Feet Two was produced at Dr. D Studios
and released on November 18, 2011. Wood and Williams reprised their
roles for the sequel. Brittany Murphy was not be able to reprise her
role, due to her death. Matt Damon and Brad Pitt signed on as Bill the Krill and Will the Krill respectively.
Environmental message
As things progress there is increasing emphasis on environmental problems in the Antarctic.
The film's denouement shows a group of researchers taking video of
the colony of dancing emperor penguins, and the footage is broadcast
globally. After many heated arguments this publicity generates
considerable pressure to stop commercial overfishing of the Antarctic.
According to the director, George Miller, the environmental message was not a major part of the original script, but "In Australia, we're very, very aware of the ozone hole," he said, "and Antarctica is literally the canary in the coal mine
for this stuff. So it sort of had to go in that direction." This
influence led to a film with a more environmental tone. Miller said,
"You can't tell a story about Antarctica and the penguins without giving
that dimension."
Happy Feet Two is a 2011 American-Australian 3D computer-animated family film directed by George Miller, who co-directed the original film Happy Feet. The film is a sequel to Happy Feet and stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Pink, Sofía Vergara, Common, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Magda Szubanski and Anthony LaPaglia. Dr. D Studios in Sydney, Australia produced the film, which premiered in North American theaters on November 18, 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D. The film was released with a Looney Tunes short called I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat starring Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird.
Plot
Erik, son of the penguins Mumble and Gloria, is reluctant to try dancing as most of the penguins in Emperor-Land
do. Erik's first attempt at dancing embarrasses and outcasts him from
the rest of the penguins. Erik and his two friends, Boadicia and
Atticus, follow Ramon to Adélie-Land
and finds that Adélie-Land has been ruled by a God-like penguin named
The Mighty Sven. Sven is the last of his kind who survived death by his
ability to fly. Erik instantly becomes enamored with Sven, who takes a
liking to him. Sven and Lovelace tell the others that they were saved by
humans. The two eventually flee and end up on Antartica,
where Sven performs his first miracle by revealing moss to the local
penguins. Sven uses his power of "Sven Think" to help Ramon find a mate.
Ramon instantly falls in love with Carmen, another Adélie penguin who
is uninterested. Mumble follows the chicks' footprints to Adélie-land
and orders them to return to Emperor-Land, but they refuse. Sven sends
Erik back to Emperor-land with Mumble.
Meanwhile, a group of krill
are in the midst of a swarm. Will is an adventurous and existentialist
krill determined to discover what lies beyond the swarm. His friend,
Bill, reluctantly follows him to ensure his safety. Once separated from
the swarm, Will and Bill realize that krill are at the bottom of the
food chain, created to be eaten. Inspired, Will ventures out to evolve
and "move up the food chain", eating a real creature instead of being
eaten.
Meanwhile, Mumble tells Erik that he is unique to the world and that
he will someday find his calling, but Erik dismisses his advice. While
trying to cross a perilous ice bridge, the penguins encounter Bryan the
Beach Master and his two young sons, who refuse to let the penguins
pass. Suddenly the ice gives away and Bryan is trapped in a deep crevice
below the ice. Mumble sets out to free Bryan by antagonizing a sleeping
leopard seal
until it chases him down. Unknown to them, Bill and Will try to eat a
creature with a face that awakens the seal, but Mumble saves him.
Seeking acceptance from Erik, Mumble is disheartened to learn Erik
attributed the feat of courage to Sven Think. Bryan returns to the Elephant Seal beach, but not before thanking Mumble and promising to return the favor to him at any time.
When the penguins returns to Emperor-Land they discover that a large
iceberg has trapped the Emperor Penguin population below large walls of
ice. Boadicia ventures out to Adélie Land to recruit the help of Ramon,
the Amigos and the Adélie penguins to bring fish to the doomed Emperor
penguins. Meanwhile, Mumble, Erik and Atticus deliver meager supplies of
fish to the trapped penguins. Erik attempts to deliver a fish to Gloria
by flying and nearly tossing himself over the edge of the iceberg.
Mumble scolds Erik for his beliefs, saying that no penguin can fly and
that none of the Emperor Penguins will be able to escape. Once Erik
realizes Emperor-Land is destined to die, he begins to break down.
Gloria sends Mumble off to hunt for fish, calming Erik and the rest of
the hysterical Emperor-Land. In the process, Bill becomes inspired to
create another swarm of krill but Will refuses, preferring to adhere to
his new predator lifestyle.
The next morning, a large flock of Skua
attack the trapped Emperor-Land. Noah the Elder encourages the penguins
to stand up to the birds through perseverance and unity. When all hope
seems lost, Boadica returns with the entire Adélie-Land, led by Sven, to
aid the trapped Emperor Penguins. Sven orchestrates a cooperative
effort to feed the trapped Emperor Penguins through hunting and bringing
back a flow of fish from the sea. Meanwhile, Will becomes increasingly
agitated with Bill's behavior and leaves him into the Adélie feeding
swarm, to join "fellow predators". In the process he is attached to a
fish carried by Sven and down into the trapped Emperor-Land.
The humans that saved Sven and Lovelace come to Antarctica again to
help the penguins find a way out. However, a storm approaches and causes
the humans to flee. Sven reports that the ocean has frozen over
significantly and there is no chance of the humans returning or the
Adélie Penguins transporting food over such a distance. Erik urges Sven
to teach the penguins how to fly, but Sven reveals that he is a Puffin.
He admits that after the loss of Svenland, he was lonely and grew to
love the penguins who accepted him as a family. Mumble, after watching
snow fall into a crevice between chunks of iceberg, begins to tap-dance
on the ice and lead the Adélie penguins in a dance to force snow between
the ice and weaken it. The plan works until several chunks break loose,
sending a portion of the Adélies into the doomed crevice. In attempting
to save Erik from plummeting over the edge, Mumble injures his foot and
is unable to dance and lead the Adélies. Ramon realizes Carmen is
trapped below and, risking his own life, jumps off the iceberg to be
with her and professes their love to each other.
Sven becomes aware of the dancing and proves himself to be a worthy
dancer despite public outcry against him. He leads the remaining Adélies
in dance while Erik and Mumble venture off to the Elephant Seal beach.
Meanwhile Will, weary from the dangers he experienced as a predator
on the surface, ventures back into the sea to find Bill, but not before
experiencing the penguin's dancing. He is suddenly forced down a crack
in the ice and into the sea beneath Emperor-Land. He reunites with Bill
and his swarm, who tell him he has the purpose of changing the world and
evolving the swarm. Once Bill told the swarm of their position on the
food chain and their lives as pure herbivores, they followed him to the
safety of the inaccessible ice below Emperor-Land.
Mumble and Erik arrive at Elephant Seal Beach where Bryan is in the
middle of a fight of dominance between another large male. Mumble pleads
to the elephant seals to help free the Emperor Penguins. Bryan,
initially hesitant to return a favor at such a pivotal time of the year,
becomes aggressive and threatens Mumble off the beach. Erik, unnerved
by the lack of honor and respect from Bryan, commemorates his father as
his hero for his acts of bravery and lectures Bryan for his lack of
compassion and gratitude towards him though opera. Touched by Erik's
song, the elephant seals travel to Emperor-Land to free the penguins.
The penguins and the seals begin slamming the ice on the beat, joined by
the krill below the ice. Finally, the iceberg crumbles enough for the
Emperor Penguins to climb out of the crevice and reunite with their
families.
Cast
- Elijah Wood as Mumble
- Robin Williams as Ramón and Lovelace
- Pink as Gloria
- Hank Azaria as The Mighty Sven
- Brad Pitt as Will the Krill
- Matt Damon as Bill the Krill
- Ava Acres as Erik (singing by Elizabeth Daily)
- Meibh Campbell as Boadica (singing by Elizabeth Daily)
- Lil P-Nut as Atticus
- Carlos Alazraqui as Nestor
- Johnny A. Sanchez as Lombardo
- Lombardo Boyar as Raul
- Jeffrey Garcia as Rinaldo
- Magda Szubanski as Miss Viola
- Sofía Vergara as Carmen
- Anthony LaPaglia as Alpha Skua
- Michael Cornacchia as Frankie
- Danny Mann as Dino and Brokebeak
- Gabe Newell as Killer Whale
- Hugo Weaving as Noah the Elder
- Richard Carter as Bryan The Beach Master, an Elephant Seal
- Common as Seymour
- Mason Vale Cotton as Bo
Development
Elijah Wood, Robin Williams and Hugo Weaving reprised their previous performances as Mumble, Ramón, Lovelace, and Noah. Also returning for the film are Carlos Alazraqui, Johnny A. Sanchez, Lombardo Boyar and Jeffrey Garcia as Nestor, Lombardo, Raul, and Rinaldo. No other actors repeated their earlier performances.
Brittany Murphy, who originally voiced Mumble's love interest Gloria, was set to reprise her role and begin recording sometime in 2010, but died from pneumonia on December 20, 2009. Steve Irwin, who played Trev the elephant seal, died in a stingray attack on September 4, 2006, so Pink and Richard Carter
both replaced Murphy and Irwin, and Pink contributed a song ("Tell Me
Something Good", also by Pink, was contributed to the soundtrack of the
first film), and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon voiced the tiny krill, Will and Bill. Hank Azaria also signed on to voice The Mighty Sven. E.G. Daily, who played young Mumble in the previous film, played the vocals for Mumble's choreophobic son Erik and the daughter of Miss Viola Boadicea, as well as additional voices. Sofía Vergara appears in the film as a new character. There is to be a live action scene in the movie as in the first Happy Feet. Mitchell Hicks has signed up as the movie's choreographer.
Reception
Critical response
Happy Feet Two received mixed reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 44% of critics gave positive reviews, based on 99 reviews. Happy Feet Two currently holds a Metascore of 50 out of 100 on Metacritic. Richard Corliss of Time
gave the film a positive review and said that Miller is "not content to
duplicate the pleasures of his first penguin film; he dares to go
bigger, deeper, higher — happier." However, British newspaper The Telegraph named Happy Feet Two
one of the ten worst films of 2011, saying "Happy Feet Two is an
appalling 3D animated sequel about a colony of all‑singin’, all-dancin’,
all-infuriatin’ penguins."
Box-office performance
On its opening weekend, Happy Feet Two earned $21,237,068 while playing on 3,606 screens. This is barely half of the $41,533,432 that the first Happy Feet made on its opening weekend in November 2006. Approximately 50% of Happy Feet Two's box-office take came from the 2,825 screens that showed it in 3D. Thus, when adjusted for ticket price inflation, Happy Feet Two
achieved less than 45% of the attendance figures of its predecessor.
Major box-office prediction websites were almost unanimously predicting
an opening weekend of $35 million - $45 million, so Happy Feet Two's box-office performance has thus far been underwhelming. Among 2011's animated films, Happy Feet Two's opening weekend ranks 8th. Kurt Orzeck of the Vancouver Sun has reported that "due to the poor performance of Happy Feet Two,
600 of the 700 employees at the Sydney-based Dr. D. Studios, the
digital production studio behind the animated movie, have reportedly
received their walking papers."
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category | Winner/Nominee | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Houston Film Critics Society Awards | Best Animated | Nominated | |
| San Diego Film Critics Society Awards | Best Animated Film | Nominated | ||
| Satellite Awards | Original Song | "Bridge of Light" | Nominated |
Merchandise
Video game
Happy Feet Two: The Video Game was developed by KMM Games for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. WayForward Technologies developed the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS versions.
Home media
Soundtrack
The soundtrack album for the film was released by WaterTower Music on CD on November 21, 2011 and on iTunes on November 15, 2011. Unlike the previous film's two album releases—one for its songs and one for its score—both the songs and John Powell's score are included on this album. The film's theme song, "Bridge of Light", is performed by Pink, who also lends her vocals to the character Gloria.
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