Happy? Feet

We tortured ourselves by taking the kids to see a movie today. We thought the penguin cartoon, Happy Feet, would be a good, innocent choice. We were wrong.

Happy Feet might be the most heavy-handed, political indoctrination movie I've ever seen. It's depressing! Do you remember the anti-hunting sentiment behind Bambi? People are evil and the world would be better off without them? Imagine that times a hundred. It wore me out. Okay, okay, people are bad, every human is a mindless killer and a polluter. I get it already.

But this movie was manipulative with it's message. My kids watched while one penguin nearly suffocated to death with a plastic six-pack ring around his neck and the star penguin slowly went insane while imprisoned in a zoo. The wrongs this movie campaigns against aren't limited to just pollution and over-fishing, but also religion, faith, and religious leaders, traditional values, oil, zoos, corporations and capitalism, etc. One reviewer said, "Even the wee ones may start to notice something's amiss when the movie's theme goes from "be yourself" to "we must regulate the overfishing of the Antarctic oceans." No, for real."

After two solid hours of beating the audience over the head with this, finally the United Nations saved the penguins by banning commercial fishing. Come back next week, kids, when the U.N. bans religion and private property to save cute fuzzy squirrels!

Gag me with with a spoon.