Could have been good, but my time and money were hijacked for a wrongly based political agenda. This movie says don't eat any fish, the next says don't eat mammals, and the next don't eat birds, then they start on which plants. How about just being responsible. I am tired of uneducated (holyier-than-thou)-wood jokers preaching their latest fads to us. This move was one of the worst offenders -- AVOID IT!!!

this movie is a really good movie for children it is funny and it is about a little penguin that can't sing but he can dance really good!!!! so if you are looking for a really good movie for your children than take them to go see this.

Having read the other comments, I cannot help to verify how backward and nearsighted Utahns tend to be. I loved the movie and I made sure my daughters who watched the movie with me, understood the issues the movie addressed. If we as parents hide and protect our kids, who are our future, from these issues, we cannot expect that they will be instruments to make this world a better place to everyone to live. Being LDS, I used to learn about scriptural subjects through the use of parables. I would expect the other Utahns to recognize one when they see it. Unfortunately, it does not seem to be the case. But I guess, the main issue Utahns did not like in the movie was how the fear of change and the "all wise" attitude of the "Elder" so faithfuly portraited religion in general! 5 Stars! A must see!!

Like many parents of young children, perhaps I was uninformed/mislead to think that this was a children's story. Instead, I watched in outrage as I found the movie weaving a political agenda right before my eyes...and in the faces of my three young children. A wolf in sheep's clothing, this movie wants us all to think that oil drilling is evil because of these cute penguins. I took my children and walked out. It's not what they nor I were anticipating with this movie. Shame on them (or me for not being more informed beforehand) for trying to pass off a political agenda on thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents.

This would have been a great or at least above average movie if they ended it at 45 minutes. Instead, they dragged it on and on with this seemingly never ending political preach session. The lesson seemed to be: Humans are horrible and killing all the happy penguins by mercilessly eating all their fish. But, if the penguins could all learn to dance, all the countries of the world would gather at the U.N. (I'm not kidding) and stop fishing in the antarctic. One has to wonder how the last 1.25 hours made it past the cutting floor, considering this was supposed to be a family flick. Anyway, if you think good family movies should involve heavy handed lefty diatribes about how horrible humans are, by all means, this is the movie for you and your family. Be warned, however, that the kids won't get the last hour, which deviates from fun and entertaining to bizarre, boring and illogical. Many of the kids in the audience started walking around or playing the isles until the movie was over. Ours were very bored.