Happy Feet - Nostalgia Critic
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George Miller's strangest (and that's saying a lot) choice for a film to direct. Did Nostalgia Critic ever get into this tap dancing hit? Let's take a look at Happy Feet.
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Happy Feet is a 2006 animated jukebox musical comedy film directed and produced by George Miller and written by Miller, John Collee, Judy Morris, and Warren Coleman. It stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Magda Szubanski and Steve Irwin. An international co-production between the United States and Australia, the film was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Kingdom Feature Productions. It is the first animated film produced by Kennedy Miller and Animal Logic. Set in the cold land of Antarctica, the film follows Mumble (Wood), an emperor penguin who is able to tap dance brilliantly despite his lacking the ability to sing the heartsong to attract a soul mate. After being continuously ridiculed and rejected by peers and his own father (Jackman), Mumble departs on a journey to learn what is causing the local fish population to decline - and to find himself along the way.
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Almost 20 years later, what are your thoughts on Happy Feet?
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Pretty please, it is the day 220 waiting for the ,,G-force " movie review by the ,,Nostalgia Critic" himself! Please see this Doug!
What is wrong with my comment, Channel Awesome?
A part of my childhood
A review about a movie about guinea pigs sounds like a perfect ,,Nostalgia Critic" episode right now after the penguins ones!
I like to get an answer to my comments ,,Channel Awesome"! Why you don't respond to my comment?
Fun Fact: Initially, Prince refused to allow the use of his song, "Kiss", for the film. However, after seeing footage of the film, he not only changed his mind and allowed the song to be used, but also wrote an additional original song for the film to use in the closing credits.
DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING!
Prince: hey my bad y’all this actually cute af
We know that too
Song of the Heart is pretty great. It goes well with the space and Antarctic visuals somehow. RIP.
@@kadenmedley1367drake when he sees someone under 18.
A Sad Fact: This film is dedicated to Steve Irwin as this was his last film.
I didn't even know Irwin had VA roles, let alone any role that wasn't funny voiced croc man.
Yeah but he was also an albatross in a deleted scene. I hardly recognized his voice as an elephant seal. I wished they kept in the albatross since THAT was him.
Definitely wish, especially in hindsight, they would have kept his character in. If I remember correctly the scene is actually really touching
Who's Steve Irwin ?
Thanks for making me feel old.
RIP Robin Williams and Steve Irwin and Brittney Murphy.
All amazingly talented people ❤
My heart ❤️
That’s kind of crazy that this movie has so many people in it that have passed on early like that
To our old friend *Robin Williams.* 🕊️
May their legacy be never forgotten
Another Fun Fact: Mumble came out of his egg feet first (as opposed to using his beak like birds normally do). Technically this means Mumble was born in the breech position. Breech babies tend to have a higher risk of having developmental problems.
Oh damn
Is that why he looks like a giant baby penguin the whole movie? Always bothered me. Never was a fan
@@theemeryboard4767 He was designed like that to show that he had failed to mature in the eyes of the rest of the flock. That's why at the end when he's finally accepted by the others, if you pay attention you can spot that he's suddenly got a yellow spot starting to come in on his chest. Which is to show his adult feathers are finally growing in. Granted its still an ugly design to some people, but at least there's a legit design choice to show that he wasn't fully mature yet. And it apparently was also meant to look like an old-school white tux as well with a faint bow-tie mark on his neck.
@@jlan7844that is until the 2nd movie when suddenly he is just more fuzzy again as if his feathers grew back somehow.
He said that ar the beginning.
My dad when the movie came out: “Well, that was cute, who directed it?”
George Miller
My dad: “Hmm….okay….?”
The same guy who made the MM films
@@chasehedges6775 yeah those damn chocolate needed a movie
I don't know what's weirder: The fact that Gorge Miller directed an animated penguin movie staring Elijah Wood, or how voluptuous they make some of these penguins.
Yeah. It's like they're animals or something.
From the post apocalyptic wasteland to talking farmyard animals you can't deny that Miller's got variety with his films
@@kimifw58Yeah, I get that, but you wouldn't expect a kids movie to be this direct about it.
“A family movie”
@@DanGamingFan2846 yea, cause kids should never learn about nature and biology 🙄
Prince originally denied the filmmakers permission to use "Kiss," but then decided he wanted to see the movie first before he made a firm decision. *Not only did he love the movie and ultimately gave them permission, but he wrote a new song especially for its soundtrack in just one week.* That song: "The Song of the Heart", won him a Golden Globe.
Oh that's why he saw a oppunity
The man probably loved him some penguins 🙌🥲🥹
The man is GOAT!
I feel you skipped over the part where the father dropped Mumble as an egg (a crucial rule among the penguins) and the secret becomes a shocking reveal to everybody, solidifying Mumble's dancing to the Penguins as not just abnormal, put some type of deformity, like their own Quasimodo, so to speak, that led to his own exile.
Looking back, the marketing team did a really good job. This film initially presents itself as a standard outcast coming-of-age plot only to reveal that it's actually a surreal epic with a strong environmental theme. We're in an age where trailers always either spoil something important or outright lie about a story's premise, so it's actually really cool that the marketing for this film honestly showed the outcast coming-of-age part and hid the surreal epic part.
And it played that environmental theme while somehow not being too in your face about it despite it being a major plot point of the movie. Then, showing the debates that take place over the issue instead of humanity instantly going "we have to save them"
I remember Unbreakable did something similar. the trailer i had seen for the film made it look like it was about a guy having to deal with being the sole survivor of a train wreck. the entire comic book hero aspect was a completely shock.
Isn't the whole point that the humans are live action but the penguins are in CGI because it emphasises how alien the humans look to the penguins?
Could be
Feel the same
I read somewhere that, since penguins don't have any natural predators on land, they kinda just assume that any humans are weird-looking penguins.
Good point.
1:07
>March of the Penguins: 2005
>Happy Feet: 2006
>Farce of the Penguins: 2007
>Surf's Up: 2007
>Mr. Popper's Penguins: 2011
>Penguins of Madagascar: 2014
Something doesn't add up here.
One of these things just doesn't belong here
It was a great time for me as a kid,I was obsessed with penguins,mainly thanks to this movie and it's sequel-
Penguin of Madascar is the best out of all of these btw
Never forget the Penguin years of cinema
Farce of the Penguins because it was rated R?
If you notice, Mumbles bow tie straight up vanishes at the near end of the movie, because it signs that Mumbles is becoming a real Penguin.
You can even see more of his Emperor penguin colors during the final dance scene which carries into the sequel
@@LucyLioness100 WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE SEQUEL!
@@zachpottinger1842 the sequel isn’t that awful, but it’s not as good as the original. Just my opinion of course
Another Fun Fact: Mumble features a faded dark spot directly under his neck in the shape of a bow tie. This was added to make Mumble's appearance more like a white tuxedo. This is both to emphasize the Fred Astaire resemblance and is also a play on "penguin suit", a slang term for a black tuxedo.
We know...
@@slyfox2022 I didn't. I never noticed that patch until Doug mentioned it.
He also kept his baby fluff as more-or-less a reference to Elijah Wood having a baby face (I don’t even know if that’s true, it just would make sense).
@@therealCrazyJake I just figured it was the easiest way to make him stand out from the rest
@@therealCrazyJake It was actually more to keep him immediately identifiable to the audience since there was generally less variation among the models of the male penguins as opposed to the female models. The animators basically realised that adult-Mumble would look too much like Memphis (especially in crowded shots) so they kept the fluff to make sure the audience would instantly pick him out from the crowd and to emphasise how different he was from the other penguins. When he's returned to them at the end of the film, he's lost some of the fluff on his flippers and stomach to signal his acceptance by the other penguins. The only direct reference to Elijah Wood in Mumble's model are his very light blue eyes.
Every time the gods flip a coin, George Miller is either gonna make a Mad Max product, or an animal picture
SOOOO TRUe
So before making this movie, the coin landed on its edge.
@@AlejandroGonzalez-ej4lp I understood that reference
6:55 "That's just a cat and that's just a crow"
That's how I saw those characters as a kid.
That's how we all saw them as kids, but you know, adults see differently.
@@zacharybartolo5111 I trust my kids to see them as just animals.
i still see them that way
Oh, and those Buzzards in The jungle book WERE DEFINITELY not a parody of a certain British Band...
@@matthewrowlett1564 but they were white Europeans, so that's okay.
Another Fun Fact: The dancers for the dance sequences not only had to wear motion capture sensor suits for their movement, but also had to wear special headgear to simulate the penguins' beaks to force them to accommodate the anatomical feature for their characters' dancing.
Oh, that’s right!
I think it’s a great touch and makes the dance scenes even more fun
my god man how many comments do you need?
Another Fun Fact: Not only does Steve Irwin provide the voice for one of the elephant seals, but he was also originally cast to play an albatross that Mumble encounters as he crosses the ocean after the aliens. The albatross scene was cut from the final movie, but you can see it in the DVD extras. The scene was cut before animation was complete, so no actual animation existed until they were preparing the DVD for release. The director and the production crew felt that they needed to do something following Steve Irwin's death, so they completed the scene and included in the DVD in remembrance of him.
instead of spreading your comments out, try making a reply chain for you fun facts
It would've been a swap title if "Happy Max" and "Mad Feet" exist in another universe.
Dang it, George Miller!
I would love to see what Happy Max is and Mad Feet sounds cool! Like a tougher version of Dirty Dancing.
Basically
Mad max: Doom eternal
Happu feet: animal crossings
Miller can have his own bizarre dualism like everybody has with barbiehaimer
Happy Max is the alternate universe where Mad max’s wife was never unalived in the first one and he lived a peaceful apocalyptic suburban life no complaints
Mad Feet is the sequel to Happy feet where mumbles takes revenge upon humanity after his love interest chokes on a plastic bottle
Before being owned by Netflix, Animal Logic is an Australian visual effects and animation company responsible for films like Legend of the Guardians, Lego movies and this. Too bad that the sequel became forgotten
They also worked on the Walking With Dinosaurs movie.
The sequel was notably the only project by Dr. D Studios, George Miller’s attempt to have his own Wētā FX.
5:00 infiltrated by the puffins?
No you’re thinking of the sequel. That’s where Sven comes in.
And there's also a liar-reveal moment after everyone believed he was a flying penguin. Lol
I do feel like the "mixing live action with cg" works here. The humans are meant to be an almost otherworldly entity to these penguins, and I feel like the clash in styles helps accentuate that theme. Couple that with the humans being introduced during the zoo sequence, am honestly pretty unsettling sequence in this movie, and the sorta uncanny valley is cranked up here
I really like how the 'humans are cthulhu' trope is done in this film.
Ok, but in Les Miserable, Hugh was restricted on water and was forced to sing for 12 hours straight! The fact you could tell he was singing at all in that movie is quite frankly, a miracle. “At that point he was just rubbing two pieces of sandpaper together” -Sideways
And they were all singing live on-set. That didn’t exactly help since they didn’t do touch-ups in post to make it sound a bit smoother
Wasn't the dehydration his choice? Makes me wince every time I think about singing songs like that and not hydrating, a very strange move. Plus he could've ruined his vocals permanently
@@ringostingo5892 it partially was. But he was told they wanted to see his muscles which you need to be dehydrated for.
Another Fun Fact: When Mumble first arrives at the aquarium, the penguin he speaks to talks like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), he even calls Mumble 'Dave'.
Dave? Who is Dave? I think i had a test subject who was once called Dave - GLaDOS
The aquarium looks just like the penguin exhibit at SeaWorld
There is a shot in this after the ice cliff collapses into the ocean revealing a long buried excavator, Mumble follows it and the film holds for a couple seconds on the excavator slowly falling into the ocean abyss. For me as a child that shot was incredibly harrowing and humbling, I’m not sure anything else in a movie better encapsulates the entropy of humanity and it’s mark on the universe.
Have you noticed when the baby penguins hatch, all of them come out beak first except for Mumble who comes out feet first. Signifying his instant passion for dancing.
Also the fact that his development is...a bit different from being dropped on the ice during the winter
I'm surprised Critic doesn't mention ANY of the jokes during the orca attack. They're freaking gold.
"They're making us appeteasers! They're appe-teasing us! Ha, ha, ha! We're all gonna die." I'm sorry but that's just funny asf.
'Unless we are being infiltrated by the puffins.'
No, no. That doesn't happen until the sequel.
The best penguins are still the Madagascar ones ;)
Smile and wave boys
I love the Madagascar penguins too… and Chilly Willy
Ok let’s be fair, they are the GOAT, no other penguin can compare XD
We've been ratted out, boys.
No argument.
Another Fun Fact: Norma Jean and Memphis are obviously named for Marilyn Monroe (who was born Norma Jean Mortensen) and Elvis Presley (who lived in Memphis, Tennessee). Their voices and mannerisms are imitations.
I do like that touch. That’s what made it strange to know it was Nicole as Mumble’s mom since she was doing a Marilyn impression, but a nice detail. Plus it makes me giggle to hear Wolverine doing an Elvis impression
Another Fun Fact: When Mumble is dancing, you can see three black spots over his ankle area, this is in reference to the spats that used to be worn over shoes in early Fred Astaire dancing movies.
Do you just scour IMDb’s Trivia page for something to throw in the comments? 🤨 Either just link the page or AT LEAST condense everything into one full comment.😫
@@MichaelAarons1701 IMDb *and* the Trivia/YMMV pages on the TV Tropes entry for whatever film it is. What's kind of hilarious is that since the entries on both sites are completely user-generated, some of their "fun facts" on this and other videos are either just plain wrong or pure speculation.
R.I.P. Brittney Murphy and Robin Williams
Also R.I.P. Steve Irwin who I had no clue was in this, the dude has range.
Fun fact: originally the movie was going to end with penguin looking aliens going to destroy earth until they saw the all the penguins tap dancing message that they ended up changing their mind, it was cut the last minute that it appeared in the Japanese mobile game tie in but the scene still remains lost.
Those penguin looking aliens would’ve probably looked so uncanny in the movie
The "Hey, look at that. What?" joke is one that I had forgotten about but was still in my subconscious. Robin Williams really was one of the most talented comedic actors.
That joke was funny when I was 12 and still is now. Robin’s comic timing was special
Oh I remember this. That sea leopard scared me so much.
Another Fun Fact: Hugo Weaving originally pitched the idea to Warner Bros as footloose for penguins after a recent trip to Antarctica inspired him
The voice of Noah.
I didn’t know that
Wolverine and The Crocodile Hunter being in the same movie really warms my heart
Another Fun Fact: When the Amigos are getting ready to follow Mumble & Lovelace off the cliff into elephant seal territory, they psych themselves up by singing, "Jump in Time," a big song-and-dance number from Mary Poppins which featured Dick Van Dyke's character Bert.
Wow, who knew the penguins look at Bert as an idol? 😂
Another Fun Fact: During Mumble's sanity slippage, his father is standing with his back to him, because they haven't reconciled with each other yet.
I love the potshot at Disney & Pixar's Brave.
It shouldn't have won the 2013 Oscar for Best Animated Feature. That award should have gone to Disney's Wreck-it Ralph.
The funny thing is that as a kid I and probably countless other kids didn’t know who Miller was. So the whole “the Mad Max guy did this?” angle never mattered to us.
I had heard of Mad Max, but not seen it at the time. Nowadays it’s just funny to me
That time Frodo was a penguin XD
Soooo true
and elrond
He was once a dragon too
and the genie is a penguin too
2 penguins
@@Marioplushboyos He actually was the same year this movie came out.
Fun fact: the Latin American fans of this film LOVE Ramón.
Shhhh. You're hurting his white savior complex.
Oh exactly what I was thinking.
¡Amamos a Ramón!
@@DanteKrystal Indeed. I wonder why the yankies are always offended by white actors playing non-anglosaxon roles. Like if they didn't know there are white people in spanish-speaking countries.
I’m Latin and Ramón is my favorite, he’s hilarious! Not everything is malicious.
@@Professorgutierrez In fact, nothing is malicious at all. I'm Uruguayan myself.
That Karma Sutra scene went over my head the first time I saw it…
The killer sea lion scene scared me as a kid and it still gets me the chills now as an adult.
Same here.
It's a leopard seal actually
@@lexramstudios1386 sorry. got confused for a minute but yeah it is
For me, it was the scene where he hallucinates his family and tries to tell them about the fish.
The one in The Pebble and the Penguin is perhaps scarier.
Another Fun Fact: The translation of Raul's Spanish speaking part of "Boogie Wonderland" is: "I am Raul, the coolest penguin, Latino of course, one hundred percent Spanish! My brothers! (What?), they call me crazy. A little lady lights me like flame. The party- dance, dance little girl! My heart has dynamite! BOOM!, (Exactly! that he eats a shortcut!) Let me be your penguin daddy!"
"penguin Daddy" my God that would be a very very awkward moment for the parents and very weird line for kids that also knew Spanish and they heard that.
But not he’s not as epic as Puff Daddy!!!
I almost forgot that there was a weird rash of penguin-themed movies in the mid-2000's
Another Fun Fact: The film opens on a shot of the entire Earth. It seems at first to just emphasize how remote Antarctica is, but it indicates just how large a scope the film encompasses, especially when Mumble swims to Florida.
A large inspiration for this movie is the Looney Tune short I love to Singa. It’s about an owl who is literally born loving jazz music, while his family only allows classical music.
Wasn't that short included in the DVD extras?
@@RedMephit yes it was
@@RedMephit Can vouch for that!
I actually really liked this movie as a kid. I had a real soft spot for animals and after seeing happy feet for the first time I became obsessed with penguins. I would always want to see the penguins at the aquarium and I even had the happy feet GameCube game which was a rhythm game that also had racing for some reason
RIP Robin Williams
I’m genuinely shocked he never made a reference or joke to The Pebble and the Penguin in this review.
Then again Williams (as Ramon) mentioned it and one-upping his jokes is one hell of a hurdle, even when they’re misses.
every time I went to the zoo, some kid wanted penguins to dance
Yeah I remember other kids thinking the same. I was 12 so I wasn’t fooled lol
Another Fun Fact: When Mumble finally embraces his dancing; not only does his "heartsong" match Gloria's perfectly, but he will never drown her out. Rather than trying to convince her to accept a melody that isn't hers, Mumble provides an independent but perfect harmony that makes both of their songs more beautiful.
This film and Surf's Up were my favorite animated films back in the 2000s.
Same here. The 2000s were awesome
Same here. I never watched the sequels and frankly no way will I bother.
Steve Irwin also had a deleted scene of mumble chasing the ships where he voices an albatross
Another Fun Fact: Nicole Kidman's first, and currently only, animated voice role.
To quote the late Great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure Robin Williams might or might not be thinking about in heaven is “In theatres, you’re kind of disconnected. Also, it’s way too big for the likes of me. Unless you’re Robin Williams or someone that can fill a stage with movement and energy, it just looks like a small man on a big stage.”
Should I still tell him that The Nerd turns 20 this year, or he'll find out eventually?
5:02 "unless we're being infiltrated by....the puffins" 😂
Fun fact: Before this movie ever release, there's a book for children for marketing this movie show that Mumble baby feathers became faded when he enter the Zoo and more like an adult Penguin. I know they kept the baby feathers Mumble kinda want to make him more recognizeable (I mean in his chest look like a bowtie make it little cute),but i kinda prefer his adult look in the book over the movie. It's like he's not an outcast or a special penguin but more accept to the Penguins and become look like them.
Don't mind me:
*Procedes to jump from my seat and do the Happy dance* 🕺🕺
Yeah the Pharrell song sure is happy
I always wondered why the main character always looked like a baby penguin
because he was mishandled while in an egg and came out mutated as a result
@@coletrainhetrickMore developmentally delayed than "mutated"
@@RedMephit yeah, I was definitely blanking on a correct word while writing this, thanks for the help
Kinds surprised you didn't bring up the deleted scene where Steven Irwin basically did the same lines, but as a seagull in the middle of the ocean as Mumble was swimming and got held up by a whale.
You easily could've put a mention of it in right before Mumble follows the boat and brought up the differences in the scenes
Don't get me started on the Puffins. They become a problem in Happy feet two!
My mom took me and my siblings to watch the movie in theaters when it first came out (I was 12, my brother 11, and my sister 7) We were introduced to a lot of great music from Happy Feet, as well as the world of voice acting and dancing. This movie definitely left a good impression on us. Thanks, Mom ❤
Lol. “Penguins can’t fly” reminds me of The Critic scene where Jay’s adoptive father find a penguin flying the plane.
“I don’t care how many stewardesses you’ve banged, you’re a lousy pilot!”
RIP Brittany Murphy, robin williams, and Steve Irwin.
8:44 Oh my god, I thought they were destroyed after Wilsongate!
This movie introduced me to "I Wish" as a kid so it forever lives in my heart. That and the penguins
This movie was my whole childhood, I wanted to be a penguin so bad 🤣🐧
George Miller’s wacky penguin film
First Zack Snyder with owls and now this.
Fun times when some best known can make some interesting animated flicks. 😉
5:05 The Puffins 😂😂😂
EDIT: wonder how Critic would react when he sees Sven 😱
Fun fact: This film actually inspired me to learn tap dancing.
No joke.
Still love it to this day.
Also the film's cover of Boogie Wonderland is fire. I still listen to it on a regular basis.
Never thought you’d review this film, Doug! Still, it’s great to see more content from you, thanks for making my Lise funnier, and keep up the great Work! For now, I’m hoping that we’ll get a review of The Little Mermaid 2, and a sequel to the Fanscription of “What if Ariel was A Siren?”, video, in honor of the Little Mermaid’s 35th anniversary this year. Once again, keep up this phenomenal work, and I hope to see you someday in the future!
16:34 It roughly translates to "So long and thanks for all the fish."
When my siblings and I were younger, we’d go to the dentist and this movie, the shrek movies and the Madagascar movies were always on the tvs there with subtitles on. It was either focus on the noise going on while the dentist cleaned your teeth, look at the ceiling or watch the movies.🤪
Man the mid 2000s-early 2010s we're really interested in Penguins in Movies
True.
Unoriginal movie studios always go through phases obsessing over the same theme and ripping each other off
True but we get some good movies and some bad along the way
5:02 basically part of the plot of the sequel
Steve Irwin was originally going to voice an albatross Mumble meets in the ocean after he stumbles across a humpback whale. The scene was fully completed and part of the bonus features in honor of Irwin.
Strange I literally just took a marine bio test on penguins
I am hispanic, and I give everyone everywhere infinite permission to do spanish accents.
It really doesn't bother us, in fact, sometimes we really like it.
See Speedy Gonzalez as an example.
I’m Hispanic too and I agree! I think it’s hilarious.
No! You need to be offended by it so white people with guilt complexes have some way to signal their virtuosity! Also, let them call you latinx and accuse your languages of being inherently sexist, so they can act morally superior as well!
Sometimes they tap dance, and sometimes it's Dune. Lmao, nailed it
I cackled at "Unless we're being infiltrated by... the puffins!"
I used to have this movie on DVD when I was a kid!
I watched this in a mostly empty theater, sick as a dog. By the time he forgot who he was, I was giggling uncontrollably, and told my husband “This is the Twilight Zone for kids”. That’s how I’ll always remember it!
Another detail I missed was when the skua bird put his foot on mumble, his feathers then formed a bow tie for him and he had it ever since.
5:07 this joke is hilarious to me because a puffin shows up in the sequel
Happy Feet is one of the best animated penguin movies, it has the best voice actors like Robin Williams and Elijah Wood! Also this movie beat out Disney-Pixar and Dreamworks Animation that year! This is the same people who would later work on The Lego Movie, it gave the animation department more budget.
Robin Williams was one of the few actors who can do any accent he wants, and we all let him because we knew there was no hate or malice, and he was purely doing it for the entertainment of it
Another Fun Fact: "The Song of the Heart" is the final original song that Prince created for a movie. The song won him his only Golden Globe Award and he received a Grammy nomination for it as well.
George Miller may have given us the Mad Max movies but he also gave us good family films such as Babe and Happy Feet.
Another Fun Fact: This movie was one of the two types of media in 2006 in which Elijah Wood's character hatched from an egg and was forced to find where he belonged. The other was ''The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (2006)'', where he voiced the title character, Spyro.
To our old friend *Robin Williams.* 🕊️
If this had been hand drawn, maybe in the same style as the 70s Disney movies like Robin Hood, I might have been more into it.
I think seeing that seal unlocked some childhood trauma I repressed
At least this movie wasn't still directed by *-Dan Schneider-* during this time.
I loved this film when I was younger, but it's kinda weird how I don't remember much about it. I forgot how awkwardly beautiful this film really is. Seriously, this film's kinda smart for its own good; like, any film that can have Elijah Wood - someone who can sing pretty damn well - voice a protagonist that's tone-deaf is...not common at all, but still really damn brilliant, imho. :3
1:31 “Let’s dance on in!”