This is absurd.
I haven’t seen Happy Feet 2 or any of the other movies mentioned in the following article, but I will say that the original Happy Feet is one of my all time favorites.
Conservatives need to get over themselves and their denial of the existence of The Public Interest. Their policy of selfishness, greed and myopia is an epic fail and not the norm, in my opinion.
TPM Muckraker
On its surface, Happy Feet Two is a cutesy sequel about a young penguin who is reluctant to dance. But could there be a radical left-wing agenda lurking below the arctic ice?
Some conservatives think so, The Hollywood Reporter reports, suggesting that the movie’s politics might be a reason why the film has been off to a sluggish start at the box office.
The New York Post’s Kyle Smith called the movie, in a review, “Kiddie Karl Marx.” He writes:
“Happy Feet Two” has a broad, lefty political agenda. It briefly brings up global warming (though, tellingly, only for a minute—Hollywood’s interest in stoking global warming fears seems to have peaked, which is convenient because the public has, after some frightened moments, decisively rejected the alarmist viewpoint) in a scene in which polar bears are shown clinging to shrinking icebergs. It also makes the case, somewhat half-heartedly, for vegetarianism (the penguins see humans roasting chickens, and get spooked). This doesn’t go very far, though, because penguins aren’t vegetarians though I suppose they’re pescetarians. And I’m sure I won’t be the only viewer who thinks that two male krill in the movie (played by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon) have now joined Oscar and Felix and Bert and Ernie as pairs of unusually close confirmed bachelors.
That’s a lot of rhetoric for one movie. While not overtly political,a Christian Movie Review at Movieguide.com writes that the movie promotes “radical environmentalism,” “global warming hysteria” and pro-homosexual and pagan messages.
As the Reporter writes, Happy Feet Two isn’t the first children’s movie to allegedly insert leftist themes into its script. Newsbusters’ Iris Somberg writes that the new Muppets movie conveniently pits a villainous oil tycoon against the muppets.
TPM readers will remember when right-wing bloggers in January freaked out over Batman’s new “Muslim sidekick.” And conservatives last December called for a boycott of the Marvel comic-inspired movie Thor, because Idris Elba — who is excellent, by the way — was playing a norse god in the film. And bizarrely, the Discovery Channel recently passed on a BBC documentary episode focusing on climate change. The channel, which co-produced the series, cited scheduling complications.
Warner Brothers declined TPM’s request for comment.
Read more here.
These damn liberals. No conservative ever acknowledged that the climate change myth is a reality.
LOL! Good one Jay. Now Newt says he was “dumb” for making that PSA.
Is he gonna call dumb every day he spent writing several books about the environment?
I actually didn’t know that. I’m sure he’ll make up some excuse if he continues to be in the lead during primary season.
Here’s one of them:
A Contract with the Earth
Thanks Jay, I saw them! LOL He’s toast with the Tea party crowd.
Jay, I’m shocked at Gingrich’s rather progressive stance on the environment. That’s a record he can’t hide. It’s more than just a video with Nancy pelosi, touting climate control…he has a literary record on the issue! Amazing.
In “Revenge of the Sith,” Anakin Skywalker challenges Obi-Wan Kenobi with “If you’re not with me, you’re against me,” which is, of course, like President Dubya’s stupid line.
Kenobi answers that only Sith talk like that, a line in which several of my friends saw rebuke of President Bush. My response? Lighten up … it’s a movie about people flying space ships, using lightsabers, and having all kinds of funky mental powers.
In “Stargate SG-1,” a new President of the US is introduced in the 7th season, and he looks quite a lot like Pres. Bush. He also comes across as pretty clueless at first, and it looks like he’s taking his cues from a manipulative vice-president. I had friends who got angry about that, too.
My response? If it was supposed to be a shot as Bush, then it failed, since the President ultimately stands up to an invading alien army, fires his VP (forcing him to resign, really), and shows himself to be smart and strong. And lighten up. It’s a show about traveling to other planets through an ancient alien device that opens wormholes across the galaxy.
Righties need to stop walking around with such chips on their shoulders. Life is so much happier when you don’t watch the cartoon about penguins looking for reasons to be offended.
Then again, these are the people who get upset when the smiling cashier says, “Have a nice holiday!”
Very well stated WK.
However, I love my Penguin movies and I don’t care what the loonier right has to say about it!
If you ask me they have too much time on their hands worrying about censorship of toys, books and movies for children that appear to “left-leaning”. It’s absurd! Uggghhh!
In terms of the children movies, this fear is by those with too much time on their hands and their head up their butt.
Frank, my sentiments, exactly.
I just love the original Happy Feet and am waiting for HF2 to come out on video so I can watch it at home in the comfort of my bunny slippers.
As for those suffering from conservamania, they see Marxists under the bed and behind every tree. It’s a unique psychosis wherein their delusions are so strong that any exposure to the real world causes severe anxiety.
It’s a unique psychosis wherein their delusions are so strong that any exposure to the real world causes severe anxiety.
Well stated Glix!