Happy Feet
Happy Feet is a 2006 Australian-American computer-animated musical family film, directed, produced and co-written by George Miller. It stars Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, and Hugo Weaving. 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 American theaters on 17 November 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 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film and the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Warner Bros., and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film.
Happy Feet (soundtrack)
Happy Feet is the lyrical soundtrack album from the 2006 animated film, Happy Feet. As of March 2007, the OST has sold over 272,627 copies in the US.
Track listings
- Written and performed by Prince
- Written by Brian Kierulf, Josh Schwartz & Gia Farrell;
- Performed by Gia Farrell
- Written by Stevie Wonder; Performed by Pink
- (Originally performed by Rufus)
- Written by Freddie Mercury; Performed by Brittany Murphy
- (Originally performed by Queen)
- Written by Stevie Wonder; Performed by Fantasia, Patti LaBelle, & Yolanda Adams
- (Originally performed by Stevie Wonder)
- Written by Simon Bartholomew, Jan Kincaid, Andrew Levy & Jamal Mitchell; Performed by The Brand New Heavies (featuring Jamalski)
- Written by Brian Wilson & Mike Love; Performed by The Beach Boys
- "The Joker" written by Steve Miller, Eddie Curtis & Ahmet Ertegün; Performed by Jason Mraz
- (Originally performed by Steve Miller Band)
- "Everything I Own" written by David Gates; Performed by Chrissie Hynde
- (Originally performed by Bread)
Happy Feet (franchise)
Happy Feet is a series of animated films produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Films
Happy Feet (2006)
Set deep in Antarctica, every penguin must sing a song to attract a soul mate. Memphis, the leader of the penguins and his wife Norma Jean have a baby, Mumble. Mumble has the worst singing in penguin history, leading to him being taunted. While in deep thought, Mumble discovers a talent for tap dancing and learns faster and easier as he grows up. No one in Antarctica approves of this, and his father nicknames him "Happy Feet". Finally, his strict father tells him he should leave to find a whole new voice. On his way, five small Spanish penguins follow Mumble and help him on his journey.
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters Amazing Hero Puffin called "The Mighty Sven," whom he thinks he is a penguin who can fly. Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
'Happy Feet' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Meet the Spartans (2008)
Actors: Philip Albuquerque (actor), Diedrich Bader (actor), Ike Barinholtz (actor), Ike Barinholtz (actor), Ike Barinholtz (actor), Leroy Barnes Jr. (actor), Dazzle Boy (actor), Jaime Burgos III (actor), Jaime Burgos III (actor), Leon C. Carswell (actor), Leon C. Carswell (actor), Hunter Clary (actor), Thomas Clavier (actor), Dean Cochran (actor), Philip Albuquerque (actor),
Plot: The heroic Spartan king Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag bunch of 13 Spartan misfit warriors to defend their homeland against thousands of invading Persians whom include the Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Autobots, and an ugly hunchbacked Paris Hilton and a shaved-head Brittany Spears.
Keywords: american-idol, ancient-greece, angelina-jolie, archery, bare-butt, battle, beard, beefcake, beheaded, bench-pressGenres: Comedy,
Taglines: The Bigger the Hit, The Harder They Fall Get Ready For the Next Big Epic Comedy. Prepare to die...laughing. (DVD) 300 had it coming (UK theatrical poster)
Quotes:
Xerxes: I tell you kid, you got balls. I come over here with a big army, we're goin' to shish kebab your ass.Messenger: [Leonidas has kissed the Persian's messenger on the mouth] What the hell was that?::Leonidas: What?::Messenger: You just kissed me!::Leonidas: That is how men great each other in Sparta: high-fives for the women [high-fives Margo] and open-mouthed tongue kisses for the men!
Leonidas: [picks up subway sandwich] No mayo? This is bullshit!
Urban Girl: Yo mama's so fat, her pant size is, um, um, um... Bitch, lose some weight!
Traitoro: Stop kicking people into the pit of death! Really!
Queen Margo: How do you like me now, Sandman!
Leonidas: I'm assembling an army to go to war with Persia. I'm going to take them in the rear... and then I'm gonna reach around, and I'm gonna take them again from the front!
Captain: I'm gonna go Hercules on your ass!
Paris Hilton: I'm a Hilton, I don't bow... but I do bend over.
Leonidas: We may have won the battle, But they will win the war!::Other 12 Spartans: Aaah... What?
The Match (1999)
Actors: Max Beesley (actor), Pierce Brosnan (actor), James Cosmo (actor), Danny Craine (actor), Ron Donachie (actor), Paul Doonan (actor), Paul Downie (actor), Kenny Gibson (actor), Richard E. Grant (actor), Andy Gray (actor), David Hayman (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Bernard Joy (actor), Gary Lewis (actor), Russell Barr (actor),
Plot: The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy, set in the idyllic Highland village of Inverdoune. Wullie Smith, still carrying the physical and emotional scars of the childhood death of his younger brother, is the village milkman. A young man whose potential is concealed his gently diffident exterior, Wullie is locally known for his remarkable T.F.R. (Total Football Recall) and for his not-very-secret love for Rosemary Bailey, the breathtaking daughter of Bill Bailey, a local farmer with a curious affection for his cows. Rosemary has returned briefly to her home with a college degree before she leaves again to pursue a career in the big city. The single-street village has only two pubs - the ramshackle delights of Benny's Bar, spiritual home of its charmingly eccentric clientele and the sterile modernity of Le Bistro, owned by former professional footballer and preening narcissist, George Gus. But Benny's Bar may soon be lost forever. A bet made to settle a feud between the original owners of Benny's Bar and Le Bistro was made long before anyone living in the village today can remember. The ancestral feud is to be finally resolved by the result of the annual football (soccer) contest between the two bars in this hundredth year of the contest. Past form indicates poor prospects for the Benny's Bar team which has lost for 99 years in a row. But it is only the result of this, the hundredth game, which will determine which bar is to be closed forever by the winning side.
Keywords: flashback, independent-film, scotland, soccer, soccer-football, wagerGenres: Comedy, Romance, Sport,
Taglines: It's a game of two pubs!
Happy Feet
Happy feet! I've got those hap-hap-happy feet!
Give them a low-down beat
And they begin dancing!
I've got those ten little tip-tap-tapping toes,
When they hear a tune
I can't control the dancing, dear,
To save my soul!
Those weary blues can't get into my shoes,
Because my shoes refuse
To ever grow weary.
I keep cheerful on an earful
Of music sweet;