History Headscratchers / HappyFeet

** UnfortunateImplications aside, there's no reason to conclude this, given that Mumble has changed significantly in size, if not plumage, and that Gloria grew up around Mumble; she would have reasons beyond him looking like a baby penguin to be attracted to him.

** People tend to forget that whales and dolphins are a ''major'' case of BewareTheNiceOnes. One case [[Tropers/{{K2Misfit}} This Troper]] remembers was seeing a pod of Killer Whales live up to their name by isolating a gray whale calf from it's mother then proceeding to headbutt and drown it to death simply [[ForTheEvulz to eat it's lips]] and left the rest of the body to waste, basically the equivalent of ''killing'' a baby for its candy. People (idiots) see Free Willy or Series/{{Whale Wars}} and think [[AllAnimalsAreDogs All Whales are aquatic fish-eating puppies]] and forget that teeth are meant for more than just gulping down fish.

** Ok, first of all, [[CompletelyMissingThePoint there are no aliens in it.]] Second, idk, either they had a good idea or they just want to make a franchise. This troper thinks it looks kinda cute.

** Because Erik is just a kid and telling him that he's trying to do the impossible might make him even more depressed and feel more like an outcast. It's kind of like telling a kid that there's no Santa Claus. Likewise, finding out your [[BrokenPedestal idol was lying or was wrong]] can be really devestating on a kid. I'm not saying that Mumble wasn't right about Seven (he was), but rather that him dumping all of that negativity onto Erik wasn't a good idea.

** Because the movie wasn't ''really'' about how "penguins are normal if they sing, but abnormal if they dance", the whole thing is meant to be a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything film about how people born different gets alienated by others and to top it, often has to deal with their own parents shunning them. Some think that AspergersSyndrome in particular is implied for Mumble given his slow development, but you could take many situations of where a person acts, looks or dresses different than others and suffers an AllOfTheOtherReindeer status because of it. The film makers simply portrayed this in a creative, strange way with said singing and dancing penguins.

** WordOfGod is they killed two birds in one stone with his design as it's both meant to show how he's different and a slow developer, but it also served to give him a unique look as the main character instead of being identical to and hard to distignuish from the rest.

** Not really. One the things I loved about this movie was the semi-realistic movements of the penguins and the nods to their mating rituals. It was a nice break the whacky adventures usually seen in this sort of film. Penguins in real life (emperor penguins anyway) ''do'' sing to attract a mate, they don't dance. That's why they thought dancing was weird. Also, while pneguins may waddle when they walk, I've never seen a tap/break dancing penguin.
*** Really, aside from the dancing - and, wasn't that kind of the point? - the movements and behaviors of the penguins were entirely naturalistic, as was the intention. The only way I can think of that they could've made them more realistic would've been if they were squirting out droppings every five minutes, while they walked.

* Is Gloria a pedophile since adult Mumble looks so much like a baby penguin?

* I never understood why Mumble was still gray as an adult. Do they explain why? Is it because he was dropped as an egg?

** Because the producers are idiots who think that {{ViewersAreMorons}} and they think that the audiences can't tell Mumble apart from the others if he looked completely grown-up (in their opinion). I bet they didn't even trial the film with test audiences.

** Because the producers are idiots who think {{ViewersAreMorons}} and can't tell Mumble apart from the others if he looked completely grown-up.

** Because the producers were idiots who think {{ViewersAreMorons}} and can't tell Mumble apart from the others if he looked completely grown-up.

** Because the producers were idiots who think [[ViewersAreMorons]] and can't tell Mumble apart from the others if he looked completely grown-up.

*** Let's face it: the producers think [[ViewersAreMorons]].

** But that doesn't explain how there's dancing at the Graduation ceremony. They're all dancing, abet not like Mumble.

** People...erm, Penguins can be stupid like that. It's not unusual for us to latch onto someone whom we think is a great role model/leader, find out he's a fraud, leave him, and move onto the next SnakeOilSalesman. The more amazing someone sounds, the more we want to be a part of their group and we want them to lead us to greatness. Sven's message of "You can do anything if you put your mind to it" was further enhanced by him being a puffin, a bird that can fly and that the penguins had never seen before (Hence why they thought he was a flying penguin). To them, Sven was a miracle worker and they thought that him leading them would bring them a new era of prosperity. In other words, it's like all the other religious and political leaders out there. They promise big things, but can only deliver the small ones...if even that.

* In the sequel, many of the the penguins are trapped on that high mountain and spend most of the movie trying to get back down. What bugs me is there were a few wide shots of that mountain and on the mountain's sides were steady trails and pathways the penguins could have easily taken to get back down. [[WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis The movie should have been over in 30 minutes!]]

** It's another clever little link back to the Accept Autism thing the writers have going with their aesop. A LOT of adults on the Autistic Spectrum never seem to fully mature physically. Mumble being half-covered in chick-down is a shout to him still looking in his late-teens, while all his friends have moved on to mid-twenties. This is TruthInTelevision for real Aspergers people, who on average rarely ''look'' much older than 20.

* Was I the only one bothered by how the Amigos, aside from Ramon, seem to latch so quickly onto Sven's ideology, despite how the first movie proved that Lovelace was making things up and Raul even says "IKnewIt! It was all a lie!" when they find things out in the first movement?