Happy Feet
My kids and I love going to the movies. I started taking them when they were about two and a half and since then we have gone the the theater many times and they sit nicely and eat popcorn and enjoy life.
Last Saturday E was working so I took them to see Happy Feet.
I thought it was a cute movie with funny things for the parents as well as the children. I had no idea conservatives were comparing the movie to an animated version of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”.
This started on November 20th on Glenn Beck’s CNN show, where he said if he “wanted his kids to be force fed this propaganda, he would like to be told about it first”.
Yes, the movie is about penguins in Antarctica who face dark days because people have been over fishing the ocean.
Conservative minded parents were offended by the movie because they say it pushed the liberal agenda of the movie company. Many people are now criticizing the film for its alleged pro-environmentalist content.
Is the fact that thousands of species are facing extinction or are already extinct because of man and our irresponsible environmental habits up for debate?
Because I thought that was a fact.
I enjoyed Happy Feet as much as my children and I think the plight of the penguins in this movie was a refreshing change from mindless TV and movies that have no message. I would rather my children watch this movie then SpongeBob Square Pants or Looney Tunes.
I think it is thought provoking whether you agree with the storyline or not. It can raise a debate or conversation with your children, which too many parents steer away from.
It is time that people take responsibility for themselves, research a movie before you bring your kids to it, if you don’t like the “moral value” of the movie, choose something else.
You do have a choice.
As for me, I will buy the movie when it comes on DVD, and I will wonder what people will argue about next.
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November 30th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
We saw it over the weekend too. I thought it was really cute and the fact that it had an underlying message (simply, take care of our environment) made me like it even more.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Stacey, I feel the same way!
December 4th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Erinn, You’re absolutely right! If people would stop being so quick to find something wrong with anything and everything and put some of that energy into doing something about the crises this entire planet faces, maybe we could make some progress!