There are a lot of movies out there about penguins. When we were little, one of Sarah's and then Alex's favorite movies was Scamper the Penguin. They really liked it when they were about three. It told the (unending) story of a little blue penguin named Scamper. He liked to scamper around and explore all the exciting things around Antarctica. This means that as the viewer, you are dragged around, watching him slide around on the snow and ice, meet the predatory birds, get chased by a leopard seal and then later by orcas. Then I think he got captured by humans on a boat taking him to a zoo, and he later escaped. Then there was the friendly scientist and his big dog.
When Sarah and Alex were 3, they really liked it. But I, being sooo much older and more mature than both of them, hated it! It was the longest, boringest, most cheesy movie in the world! But having the slight ADD tendancies we all have, if the TV was on, I would watch it. So I've seen this movie probably a hundred times.
Last night Kevin and I went to see Happy Feet, the movie about a tap-dancing penguin. The first 20 minutes were kind of funny. It was a bunch of singing and dancing penguins jammin out in Antarctica! Sometimes it was a little awkward, as it was a children's movie and they'd be singing raunchy love songs ("Let's talk about eggs, baby. Let's talk about you and me"), but I guess since it was animated, it was ok.
But that was the only original, fun part of that movie. As it dragged on and on... and on, I realized that how Happy Feet probably came about was that the writers stole the script from Scamper the Penguin, and then gave it to Al Gore to rewrite.
When I was little, I thought Scamper was about as bad as it got. But throw some preachy politics into any lame movie, and then you'll make your audience sorry they wasted a whole dollar (and 2 hours of their lives) that they'll never get back.
If you must watch a penguin movie, watch March of the Penguins.