Happy Feet may be a song-and-dance musical comedy about penguins but there are really some essential values within it. Being different from others does not take away the fact that we are really the same underneath. The protaganist Mumble cannot sing like the others but instead tap-dances. He is ostracized as a result even though he is from the same clan of penguins as them. One feels for him as he learns to accept and love himself. He eventually does realise that non- conformity is not a hindrance to true love.
Night at the Museum is more for history lovers with famous figures like Teddy Roosevelt, Attila the Hun, Christopher Columbus, Sacajawea and Ahkmenrah to whet their appetites. I was inspired to research more on them. History came alive for Larry's son and Rebecca, as well as for me. There were comic moments in the movie like when the dinosaur skeleton became a dog, but it was really the historical dominance that got to me.
The acclaimed Curse of the Golden Flower deserves the accolades of 'Most Indecent Costume Designs' and 'Most Extreme Negativities'. Even the palace maids' robes are plungingly low-cut, what more the Empress's, which just serves to degrade women by portraying them as sexual objects. There are only the themes of violence, ambition, lust, rebellion, adultery, incest, murder, sex, scandals and bloodshed in the movie. No plot is evident. No positive subject matter is dominant in it, except for the fillial piety between the Empress and the second son. The end seems to advocate the concept of evil's triumph with a tinge of pride. There is really zero morality in the movie, like much of popular media.
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