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Thank you! ^____^ It's concept art for the Mad Hatter in the game "American McGee's Alice," which I'm a big fan of. You could check out more "Alice" art here: http://alice.planets.gamespy.com/files/desktop.shtml




No, you're thinking of the "other" CGI talking penguin movie, "Surf's Up." Happy Feet is less surfer dude ("duuuuuuuude!") and more Mulan Rouge minus the hookers and with environmentalist politics added in. I'm confused about how Surf's Up is a true story too. My guess is that the core plot is true if you replaced the penguins with people, and they just turned the people into penguins to cash in on the whole "March of the Penguins" thing. (Myself, I'm more looking forward to "Farce of the Penguins," the R-rated spoof narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, but that's going straight to video I'm afraid....)

By the way, this is going to be random, but...Starbuline, you live near San Francisco and your main obession is Russia? I live near SF and I know a girl at my college (which is in SF) who's also really obsessed with Russia. I -think- I read somewhere else that your hair is bleached, and hers isn't, so I'm guessing you're not the same person, but still, how often do you get two people obsessed with Russia in such a close proximity? Maybe you two should meet up.

the true story of an all dancing, singing, talking penguin clan...i must meet these penguins!

I liked the first part a lot. I thought the scene where Mumble does the dive (the scene where Lovelace and the others are left standing there) would have been the ending if it had been, say, a Russian folktalke. It would have been a bit more poetic and realistic, too. I think the film is less good after that bit. The part with the zoo would also have worked as an ending, but a very sad one, and less heroic than the other scene I mentioned. Anyway, I liked the film overall.

Also, the very first part, where Mumble's parents find out he can't sing - and Mumble's early life in general - seemed in some ways to be a parallel to a child with autism. His parents don't know what to make of the situation, he has deficiencies in one area but a talent in another, which his mum is supportive of, but his dad thinks is embarassing; he spends his childhood alone, and when he finally makes friends, they are also socially different to their species; and he even looks younger than his peers when they all graduate.