HAPPY FEET 2
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Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
A new journey to Antarctica with Happy Feet 2
After the great success of Happy Feet dated 2006, which grossed almost 4 million euros in Italy and just over 380 million dollars internationally, returns to the ice of the South Pole with the promising sequel distributed by Warner Bros Pictures, released in America on November 18 and in released in Italian cinemas on the 25th of the same month. In America it has already grossed 22 million dollars and large collections are also expected in Italy. The director is once again George Miller, who already in 2006 earned the Academy Award for Best Animated Film, beating the Pixar nomination, present that year with Cars. Five years after the first film, Miller returns to flawlessly direct the lives of the inhabitants of the glaciers.
The story of Happy Feet 2
Characters old and new will be at the center of the film, lasting just over an hour and a half. The story restarts with a new protagonist: Erik, the son of Mambo. In the previous chapter we met Mambo, a little dancing penguin who had to embark on a journey to affirm his will to dance by clashing with his family of singers, a journey that will make him, to say the least, a hero.
Now Mambo has grown up, has conquered the love of Gloria, now a singer appreciated by the world of penguins, and has given birth to a son: Erik, stubborn as his father in wanting to affirm his skills, which have little or nothing to do with it. do with dance and tap, in which Mambo has now become a star. Erik wants to try to dance, he tries not to disappoint his father who urges him not to be ashamed, not to give up, hoping that one step after another he will learn tip tap; but all attempts will not lead to a good result.
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Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
The child's hatred for dance and other misunderstandings create many difficulties in the father-son relationship, difficulties that will lead Erik to flee to embark on his journey. The little penguin will have to face new encounters, also finding new friends, for the same reasons that, in the first film, led Mambo to leave the group and start the same journey in search of himself. But if Mambo was a dancer in the midst of singing penguins, Erik is a penguin who does not know his skills but knows very well that dancing is not for him. Among the many friends to meet, a prominent role will be played by Sven, a penguin who knows how to fly and who immediately captures the baby's attention: a special relationship that will worry Mambo not a little, aware that he cannot compete with a penguin who seems able to fly.
But the story takes a difficult turn: life in Antarctica is endangered by global warming. Something must be done to save the glaciers and the penguin community, which will find themselves isolated due to the breaking of an iceberg. It will be Mambo, who as a child had already had the opportunity to understand how important it was to protect the environment, to take the situation in hand by recruiting all the friendly inhabitants of the south pole, from the tiny krill to the huge elephant seals: creatures very different from each other, distant in size and skill, they will work together under the guidance of the dancing penguin to save the polar nation, their only home. Everything that will happen will serve Erik to regain admiration for his father and to get closer to him; he will learn what courage is, how to face adversity and, above all, accept his penguin nature, which cannot fly. The struggle for the salvation of the glaciers will bring harmony back to the relationship between Mambo and Erik.
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Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
Environmental issues
Happy Feet 2 continues to amaze spectators for the dance numbers and the spectacular songs of the bipedal protagonists, performances enriched by the 3D projection but equally spectacular in the available 2d projections. This time, however, it touches more closely on an important issue: the warming of the globe, which really threatens the existence of glaciers, which are ever closer to melting. Through the adventures of the tribe of Mambo, the writers and the director try to make the public reflect on environmental problems and in the events we read a message: men should collaborate in the protection and safeguarding of the country to prevent or face ecological disasters. The environmental one is not, however, the only committed theme of the feature film. Just as the previous chapter had faced, between gags, irony and comic moments, a story worthy of a coming-of-age novel in which a child, who feels different from the others, leaves to look for his own path and the journey will lead him to success. . A sort of fairy tale that takes place on the ice and which is revived in this second story. After all, the same journey Mambo ventured into is here undertaken by his son Erik, who in turn feels different from his peers, considers himself incapable, feels he is a disappointment for his father and decides that he has no other choice, must go away. The ironic richness of the film blends well with the seriousness of the paternal theme and the difficulties a father faces when he believes he has lost his son's affection, no less sad than the pain a child feels when he thinks he is disappointing his father. A story, the one told in Happy feet 2, not at all disappointing, certainly at the height of the previous job and which, with its happy ending, can warm the hope to be placed in the goodness of human relationships and in unconditional family love.
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Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
The technique of the film
The quality of the film is also noticeable in the images that take the viewer directly to the south pole, making him feel the cold of the harsh climate of the glaciers on his skin, in which the whole story takes place: the 3D vision, in particular, is literally believe the audience to be side by side with Mambo, Gloria, Erik and their friends, during the many dances. The director himself expressed his satisfaction with the making of the 3D film. The previous episode, due to the few resources and more rudimentary technologies, had only had a few three-dimensional scenes, three to be precise; even then Miller had guessed that the characters in his film were perfect for a 3D projection and he loved the idea of being able to put the audience in a position to almost touch the penguins, a fascinating condition especially for the many children who will be accompanied to the cinema by the their parents to follow the new adventures of Mambo and his friends. Some changes in American-Australian production: Animal Logic, Kennedy Miller Productions and Villane Roadshow Pictures are the three producers who have dealt, in an excellent way, with drawings and editing of the film, making a feature film lasting 100 minutes. Directors of photography are David Peers and David Dula, while the music that beats the rhythms of the penguin dances is signed by John Powell, creator of the soundtracks of the first Happy feet, and by Pink, who gives some of his songs to the film. There is also a real choreographer: it is Savion Glover, the great international star of the tip tap, who creates the dances in which the "emperor" penguins compete. George Miller directs but not only; he is among the producers and he is also the one to sign the brilliant screenplay together with Warren Coleman, Gary Eck and Paul Livingston.
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Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
The dubbing star
The cast of the first film sees the addition of two American movie stars, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, who in lending a voice to two new animated characters, the two tiny krill (shrimp-like fish) Will and Bill The Krill, join forces. to Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Pink, Magda Szubanski (Miss Viola), Elizabeth Daily (Erik), Sofía Vergara, defined by R. Williams as sweet, charming and with great acting qualities, and Hank Azaria, voice actors in the original version. The last two also work on the Italian version, worthily flanked by Beppe Fiorello, in the role of Mambo now an adult, Massimo Lopez, whose voice is given to Ramon, Pier Francesco Favino, who gives his voice to Adone (the Lovelace voiced by R . Williams in America), Gigi Proietti, who is the beachmaster, the singer Natalia Beatrice Giannitrapani, known to the public for her participation in X-factor with the name of Nathalie, and finally Linus and Nicola Savino who take the parts of the two "beautiful "Americans (B. Pitt and M. Damon), an aspect on which they made a lot of irony at the Italian premiere of the film that was held at the Embassy cinema in Rome, where all the interpreters of the Italian dubbing were present. Beppe Fiorello, interviewed, says that by playing the character of Mambo, he does not elaborate a particular voice. The penguin simply has the quiet voice of the Italian actor, who identifies himself in all respects in the role of father; in doing so, he provides him with a warm and loving voice that reflects the good and affection with which a father gives his son some advice that will come in handy throughout his life. The only absence in the original American group of performers is that of Brittany Murphy, voice of Gloria in the first film, who died at the age of 32 of cardiac arrest in December 2009: her untimely death amplifies the sadness of the actors for her failure. presence during the making of the film. The voice of Gloria is, in this new chapter, of Alecia Beth Moore, an internationally renowned singer known by music lovers simply as Pink. The young E. Wood, known to the general public for having played the role of Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is confronted here with the role of father; he is, in fact, Mambo in the original version and, according to the actor, playing in this role has led him to reflect on the conflicts that almost always characterize the relationships between a father and a son.
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Original title: |
Happy Feet Two |
| Country: |
Australia |
| Year: |
2011 |
| Gender: |
Entrainment |
| Duration: |
100 ' |
| Directed by: |
George Miller |
| Official site: |
http://happyfeettwo.warnerbros.com/index.html |
| Production: |
Kennedy Miller Mitchell, Dr D Studios, Village Roadshow Pictures |
| Distribution: |
Warner Bros. |
| Exit : |
November 25, 2011 |
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