Happy Feet, The Fountain, or Deja Vu?

[Warhammer]

I'm going to the movies tomorrow night, and I'd like some opinions. Which movie should I see?

I will see at least two of these before the week is over, btw.

 

[Morg]

Happy Feet, otherwise Dew will ban you if you don't go see her penquins

 

[KingOfDreams]

Out of those all I've seen yet is Happy Feet so I have to choose that.

 

[DACrowe]

The Fountain, done.

 

[Master Chief]

The Fountain, then Happy Feet. I'm waiting for Deja Vu on DVD.

 

[Spade]

Happy Feet was quite possibly the most boring film I've ever seen. The signature dancing/ singing will have you yawning after you've seen it for the fifth time of many, the film tries to cover up many of it's flaws with eye candy CGI and it would have helped to know that the second half of the film is basically one idealistic green peace message. Seriously, don't waste your time. The Fountain has generated more positive reviews, though I have also heard firsthand that it's an intricate film to watch. Deja Vu has been advertised in my area, but I haven't heard many positive reviews about it.

Overall- check out The Fountain, consider seeing Deja Vu and run as far away as humanly possible from the aforementioned atrocity to film.

 

[KingOfDreams]

it would have helped to know that the second half of the film is basically one idealistic green peace message.

I liked that aspect but then again I'm a socially/environmentally/politically conscious semi-hippie. I'm a sucker for social commentary in films. Besides the environmental message, the movie also touched on class/race/generation/religious confict.

 

[Speedball]

See Casino Royale again or for the first time, then see the Fountain

 

[tzarinna]

ChibiKiriyama has a heart of stone.

I loved Happy Feet,even shed a tear. I chuckled a little but I had a big 6 foot screen in my face and I was more stunned.




It all depends on your mood. I was going to see The Fountain Sat. but decided I wasn't in the mood to be depressed and went for Flushed Away.

 

[The Question]

None of them. You must go to the greatest film in the history of films. Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny.

 

[xwolverine2]

deja vu was freakin awesome.....

i really want to see the fountain..... looks cool

happy feet im not gonna bother

 

[tzarinna]

Bother.

 

[xwolverine2]

it looks boring....... and i cant stand to see robin williams not be funny again...i cant

 

[terry78]

Happy Feet was pretty good, to be honest. I'd expect that to take the Oscar this year for animated film. If you've seen it, you know why.

 

[Spade]

I liked that aspect but then again I'm a socially/environmentally/politically conscious semi-hippie. I'm a sucker for social commentary in films. Besides the environmental message, the movie also touched on class/race/generation/religious confict.

I don't have an issue with most of the elements of the film. It's geared towards kids, and as a teen I'm naturally going to find most elements 'kiddish'. My issue is the poor choice of message- essentially, what I got from watching Happy Feet is that women can't differentiate when you are doing something in their best interests, that being born with a birth defect makes you 'damaged goods', and that all it takes is dancing penguins to cause immeadiate and startling change in the way the world views overfishing.

It may be my own cynical views, but once the movie started working with the usual animated film stereotypes of hip-talking Hispanics and sexual innuendo barely edging the PG realm, I started taking it seriously. Once I did that most of the flaws became glaring.

ChibiKiriyama has a heart of stone.

I'll have you know that even as an adolescent male I found some of the parts such as Mumbles questioning why his constant skip was frowned upon and his plead to the hungry birds as emotionally wrenching.

Not all, but some.

 

[Darth Elektra]

Deja Vu and Casino Royale.

A friend said The fountain was boring and he couldnt understand it.

 

[Rez]

To be honest, all three of these films are amazing- and it simply astounds me to see them all released within a week of one another.

All of them are at the top of their game, and if anyone can tough out a triple feature, go for it.

 

[Clerk]

None of them. You must go to the greatest film in the history of films. Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny.

He speaks the truth.

Rock.

 

[KingOfDreams]

I don't have an issue with most of the elements of the film. It's geared towards kids, and as a teen I'm naturally going to find most elements 'kiddish'. My issue is the poor choice of message- essentially, what I got from watching Happy Feet is that women can't differentiate when you are doing something in their best interests, that being born with a birth defect makes you 'damaged goods', and that all it takes is dancing penguins to cause immeadiate and startling change in the way the world views overfishing.

I can understand that and I guess I agree to a certain extent. I'm still impressed at how issue-driven the whole thing is though. And as far as the birth defect aspect, I think there's still an element of unacceptance as far as the general populace goes. Of course, it's not nearly what it was centuries ago.

 

[murdock_matt]

I took my 9-year old daughter to "Happy Feet" this past week and she actually asked if we could leave. I swear to Buddha. SHE asked to leave.

And by that time, I was more than happy to do so.

I love musicals, and I love CGI family movies, but this was so uninspiring to me. Everytime the story was beginning to develop - oh! Let's stop and sing annoyingly mixed modern pop songs!

I'm sorry. It had good intentions (cash in on the young movie-goers new-found knowledge of emperor penguins bestowed upon them by "March of the Penguins") but it failed to entertain my family with it's first 45 minutes.

And by the way, characters who are stereotypical Elvis Presley clones are not funny. That twangy "Thank you, thank you very much" got it's last real laugh a long, long time ago.

 

[Warhammer]

I saw Deja Vu, guys.

It was pretty damn good.
Denzel did it again.

I might check out Tenacious D on Friday with my friends.

 

[Karea07]

Deja Vu can't go wrong with Denzel Washington

 

[Max J Power]

I might check out Tenacious D on Friday with my friends.

It's hilarious.

 

[KingOfDreams]

I took my 9-year old daughter to "Happy Feet" this past week and she actually asked if we could leave. I swear to Buddha. SHE asked to leave.

And by that time, I was more than happy to do so.

I love musicals, and I love CGI family movies, but this was so uninspiring to me. Everytime the story was beginning to develop - oh! Let's stop and sing annoyingly mixed modern pop songs!

I'm sorry. It had good intentions (cash in on the young movie-goers new-found knowledge of emperor penguins bestowed upon them by "March of the Penguins") but it failed to entertain my family with it's first 45 minutes.

And by the way, characters who are stereotypical Elvis Presley clones are not funny. That twangy "Thank you, thank you very much" got it's last real laugh a long, long time ago.

The structure of the film was indeed a bit odd.

 

[Caliber]

The Fountain looks great and Deja Vu looks good. Happy looks like crap, damn stupid family films that have no plot but its worse theres people lazy enough just to take there kids to a movie like that.