In the film, Erik ( Ava Acres), the son of Mumble (Wood) and Gloria (P!nk) who is reluctant to dance, runs away from home and encounters the Mighty Sven (Azaria), a tufted puffin that can fly. It is the sequel to the 2006 film Happy Feet, it stars Ava Acres, Elijah Wood, Robin Williams (in his final animated feature), P!nk, Meibh Campbell, Lil' P-Nut, Common, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Sofia Vergara, Richard Carter, and Hank Azaria. Unbeknownst to us, King Julien showed up in the Madagascar franchise with more in acknowledged epic backstory than Li Mu Bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.Happy Feet Two is a 2011 computer-animated jukebox musical comedy film directed, produced and co-written by George Miller. Who eventually dethrones Julien, leading to the events of the 13 episode spin-off series, ‘All Hail King Julien: Exiled’ which follows Julien gathering allies including a group of Russian space monkeys (!?!) to reclaim his throne. ![]() IN ADDITION TO THIS the series featured Henry Winkler(!) as King Julien XII, the previous king and uncle to Julien prime, who was constantly scheming to overthrow him.įURTHERMORE the fourth series introduces Maurice LeMarche as Julien’s evil brother Koto. HOWEVER in 2017 the series had a New Years Eve special, further complicating the timeline. According to the Wikipedia page the Netflix series ‘All Hail King Julien!’ takes place before the events of the first film and ran for 78 episodes. There’s at least one other non-penguin related Madagascar timeline. Ok so I’ve just been drawn into a Wikipedia hole trying to unravel the Madagascar timelines and I’m going to need to hear that podcast. It is exactly as you said: all the penguins did was move some ice, put off their immediate doom for a later date, and dance with the ones they love. But it never results in his heroics being recognized or a new “good” world rising up.īabe teaches some of the city’s residents kindness, but we don’t get the sense that that crazy ass place is changing for the better any time soon.Įven the parents in Lorenzo’s oil, who are probably his most “heroic” characters, science be damned, are really just celebrating their ability to prolong the inevitable by the end.īut we’re all prolonging the inevitable. The world around him changes for the worse each time, and each time he comes back to try to help. I don’t buy the new wave of galactic peace or whatever.īut for Miller.Max is simply the one who helps very briefly. I don’t connect to the happy ending on the global scale. Not to shade other films, but it’s something that keeps me at a distance from literally every other major blockbuster American film. One of my favorite George Millerisms is the lack of a changed world despite the hero’s triumph. Because isn't that all life is?Įasily top 10 movies ever covered on the podcast. But they can try, and they can celebrate their attempt. Climate change marches on, they can break some ice here and there, but they're just fucking penguins, they can't stop their own extinction. The films' constant is the necessity of constant change.Įven so, none of this is enough to save their universe. Of all the children's franchises that advocate Being Yourself, Happy Feet's is the most effective. And so its musical catalog reaches back through centuries of Western artists-including Janelle Monáe, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Giacomo Puccini-to create a unifying cultural force that has a genuine tangible effect on their world. Every generation must question, find their voice, carve a new path. One generation adopting a new form of expression does not and can not create a permanent status quo. Not merely a masterpiece, the finest piece of 3D animation of the last decade, and one of the greatest sequels ever made, Happy Feet Two is deeply, fundamentally strange, based not in plot but in unhinged musical sequences and philosophical tangents which thrust it into transcendence, a search for meaning in a dying world and a celebration of how we as individuals choose to face the inevitable nothingness.Īmong its many intelligent insights is one that the victory of the original's ending does not fix everything.
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