Last year during state testing week there was a day when all the freshmen came to school and then were not required to test. So some genius decided to take them all to the gym and turn off the lights and show Happy Feet. These kids went crazy for Happy Feet. As soon as it started then all held up their cell phones like they were at a concert. It was pretty cute.
I do love a musical, though the whole premise kinda didn't pass my snuff test. Basically, it is Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer with penguins. Happy Feet (the title character) can't sing good so he is ostracized at school. Then a seal tries to eat him, and then he finds a group of Mexican penguins who groove to the way he tap dances. Then he uses the power of dance to convince the humans to stop overfishing and turn back the clock on global warming, all set to pop hits of the 80s.
The appeal to an underachieving 16 year old is clear.
After about a half hour the movie loosened it grip and kids started yelling and dancing and setting paper on fire and throwing it across the gym. By the end the gym was covered in trash and the teacher next to me complained that this was a disaster. I thought, "Dude, this was the best possible outcome to this scenario. From what I can tell no one blatantly lit up a joint in the gym, ambulances weren't called, and no one got pregnant. If you want more than that, don't put all the freshmen in the gym and turn out the lights."
So what is my point?
This is. A seal rapes a penguin?!
Why wasn't there any of this in all the recent animated movies? I would like to see an animated musical that incorporated all these possible behaviors.
I've already got the pitch: Marion Island, its Surf's Up meets The Wire.
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