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Favorite Penguin Films

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7.6

8.3

Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)

Director: Nick Park
Starring (voice): Peter Sallis

Gromit the dog finds himself being pushed out of his room and home by a new penguin lodger who is actually a ruthless criminal.

The penguin is planning a robbery and needs to use Wallace and his mechanical remote controlled trousers to pull off the raid. However, Gromit is wise to the penguin and comes to the rescue.

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1162

6.9

7.5

March of the Penguins (2005)

Director: Luc Jacquet
Narrator: Morgan Freeman

In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love.

kathy's rating:

2750

6.1

6.4

Happy Feet (2006)

Directors: George Miller, Warren Coleman and Judy Morris
Starring (voices): Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Hugo Weaving

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

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Amundsen the Penguin

Director: Stephen Manuel
Starring: Lea Kurka, Oliver Stritzel, Katja Weitzenböck, Tobias Fries, Emilio De Marchi, Harald Krassnitzer, Till Lindemann, Claude-Oliver Rudolph and Axel Wedekind

A twelve year old girl hooks up with a penguin that knows of a sunken treasure.

kathy's rating:

1065

6.7

Surf's Up (2007)

Directors: Chris Buck and Ash Brannon
Starring (voices): Zooey Deschanel, Jeff Bridges, James Woods and Michael McKean

Cody is a surfing penguin from Shiverpool who dreams of making it big and being like his idol Big Z. On his journey he discovers his talents are not all he thinks they are and he must learn to accept that their is more to surfing than fame and fortune.

kathy's rating:

6.8

Cry of the Penguins (1971)

[also known as 'Cry of the Penguins']

Directors: Roy Boulting, Arne Sucksdorff and Alfred Viola
Starring: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton, Tony Britton, Thorley Walters, Judy Campbell, Joss Ackland, Nicholas Pennell, Avril Angers, Cyril Luckham and Sally Geeson

A womanizing biologist gets a sharp dose of realiity when he studies life in a colony of penguins in the Antarctic.

kathy's rating:

125

5.4

5.6

The Pebble and the Penguin (1995)

Directors: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman
Starring (voices): Martin Short, Tim Curry, Annir Golden, Jim Belushi and Louise Vallance

A loveable but introverted penguin named Hubie plans to present his betrothal pebble to the bird of his dreams.

kathy's rating:

7.1

6.8

Donald's Penguin

Director: Jack King
Starring (voice): Clarence Nash

Admiral Bird ships Donald, Tootsie, a baby penguin from the South Pole. Donald is amused by her until he thinks she has eaten his goldfish, whereupon he gives the penguin a spanking. But she hasn't - yet - so Donald gets a fish from the fridge to make amends. When he comes back, though, he's got a reason to be upset with the penguin.

kathy's rating:

7.7

4.8

Chilly's Ice Folly (1970)

Director: Paul J. Smith
Starring (voice): Daws Butler

While making a fire to warm up, Chilly Willy the penguin and Maxie the polar bear accidentally melt a baby woolly mammoth out of the ice. They try to feed the baby and make it happy, but don't have much luck. Finally the baby's mother comes to take care of him.

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