Happy Feet Two (2011)
Directed by George Miller
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
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They might almost be the easily swayed barnyard creatures of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, except that the penguins’ credo is “No legs good, two legs better.”
Like the original, this technically impressive sequel was directed by George Miller, the Australian who shepherded the "Babe" talking-pig movies.
Again it's George Miller who co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the film, Mr. Miller the same fellow who gave us things as varied as "Babe," "Babe: Pig in the City," "The Witches of Eastwick," and all of the "Mad Max" movies.
Then he embarked upon his children's phase, producing the original Babe (1995) before directing the awesome, underappreciated sequel Babe: Pig in the City (1998).
Which can also be said of filmmaker George Miller, who went from making “Mad Max” sequels to making children’s films — “Babe” and “Happy Feet” — and their sequels.
After all, Miller made " Babe ,"Â another great children's film that was refreshingly unsentimental about the animal world.
Five years after those toe-tapping penguins sashayed into cinemas, George Miller (Babe) returns to Antarctica with Happy Feet Two.
While a fabulous director who's found great critical and financial success with live-action endeavors ("The Road Warrior," "The Witches of Eastwick," "Lorenzo's Oil"), Miller's family entertainment offerings (including the catastrophic "Babe: Pig in the City") have been woefully mismanaged, chasing toxic whimsy with a crooked smile.
He veered into black comedy with The Witches of Eastwick (1987) -- though Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) had its share of dark comedy as well -- and then a dark, unflinching medical drama, Lorenzo's Oil (1992).
Again it's George Miller who co-wrote, co-produced, and directed the film, Mr. Miller the same fellow who gave us things as varied as "Babe," "Babe: Pig in the City," "The Witches of Eastwick," and all of the "Mad Max" movies.