In a recent full-page “Happy Feet” advertisement in The New York Times there is a giant picture of Mumble, his feet obscured by more credit boilerplate.
Glover listed way down the line, as Mumble’s dancer and choreographer. Glover’s presence, and his role as tap’s personification?Īs the film’s endless credits crawl past, one finds Mr. Miller had done a noble deed, reminding the world of the glory of tap, and that “Happy Feet” would inspire “a resurgence in the dance, to really help us maintain our presence.” Which, in turn, looks unmistakably Savion - the widely spaced feet brushing the floor (ice), the dazzling ornamental flourishes, the spot-on musicality that distinguishes all of Mr. Or even that staring down our hero penguin’s throat, with all those layers of pink mucus membrane, looks creepily clinical. Or that it makes absolutely no sense, even as a fairy tale, that the world would unanimously stop fishing in Antarctic waters because one penguin inspired his entire flock, or herd, or school, to tap dance. Never mind that the setting - penguins huddled on the ice - looks like a shameless rip-off of “March of the Penguins,” even though the filmmakers righteously insist they had their idea four years ago, before that waddling documentary became a worldwide hit. Glover is Mumble, or Mumble’s dancing moves. Glover looked like an unstoppably cheerful penguin. Almost exactly like the dancing of Savion Glover, at least if Mr. He’s a star, Mumble is, and for all his charm the reason is that he can dance up a storm.įor lovers of tap dance, his dancing looks powerfully familiar. And dance he does, joyously and brilliantly, in several really hilarious production numbers. Children of all ages and such.Īnd why not? Here we have an unstoppably cheerful penguin, Mumble, who can’t sing (which for some reason penguins are expected to do) but can dance (which for some reason is sternly discouraged). The animated film “Happy Feet” is a big hit for Warner Brothers and for Hollywood.
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