Watching March of the Penguins right now. I'm about to have to dip into the cat's insulin here.
Posted by Ilyka at March 15, 2006 02:35 PM in triviaI really wanted to like that film, I wanted to LOVE that film, but right about the second of Sherman's March to the Sea, I thought-Christ they're cute enough, but do they have to be so fucking crazy?
I never made it to the end of the film, which makes me a bad person.
But I still love Morgan Freeman.
Posted by: Helen at March 15, 2006 10:57 PMI see your version of exploitative penguin cuteness, and raise you this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366548/
The Mandarin version is no less sweet, although it does feature a woman voicing the female penguin lines who sounds like a Chinese Jessica Rabbit.
Posted by: John at March 16, 2006 01:39 PMMeryl - I've not heard the English version - I have small kids, and the wife only speaks Mandarin with them, so we got the Chinese / French version, and it has no English sound track. I don't know if the English track retains the gross anthropomophisms of the French, but the Chinese sure does.
Posted by: John at March 17, 2006 08:35 AM