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Resembles Happy Feet?


Do any of you think this movie is similar to the penguin movie Happy Feet? 'Coz you know, it's about an outcast, someone different. It especially hit me when both Oblio and Mumble were banished from their hometown. any of you think so?

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Woah! I totally thought that when I was watching Happy Feet!

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Mumble is the name of the penguin in Happy Feet. nekoshoujo4805 was comparing the banishment of Oblio in The Point to the banishment of Mumble in Happy Feet.

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That is completely ridiculous. Both stories are about outcasts being shunned by their communities, but there are a ton of similar plots in a ton of other films. The idea of The Point (which is an absolute masterpiece by Harry Nilsson - forget the film) being compared to such a stupidly politically environmentalist movie like Happy Feet is just... ugh.

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The same plot was featured in "Dumbo", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull","The Boy With Green Hair", and TV series "Mork and Mindy" (originally, Mork was banished to Earth as punishment for his nonconforming ways), and "The Flintstones" (same with Mr. Gazoo); "The Munsters"' Marilyn suffers the slings and arrows of being different from the rest of the family; "Peanuts"' Charlie Brown is constantly penalized for being a misfit; and E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan" tells the story of a trumpeter swan who's "different": born without a voice. And that's not to mention every book, stage, and screen version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"! This "rejected cornerstone" plot line has been around forever...and it always works!

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Or, rather, the movie Happy Feet is similar to The Point.

"It's not about listening with your ears, it's about listening with your imagination!"

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i watched 5 mins of the movie (having listened to the record my whole life) and hated it sooooo much its nothing like the original album meant it was taken to literal in the movie.

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That’s crazy that you mention it! Just a couple of weeks ago my son and I watched Happy Feet for the first time, then last night we were watching The Point, and I mentioned to my son that the movies were quite similar.

Taking back IMDB message boards....one ignored Troll at a time.

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