After people see it, they don’t call it a penguin movie. When you get past the penguins, it’s a character story.
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We just had faith in the fact that our movie is different. We weren’t going to change the characters into squirrels or kangaroos or something else. But we knew nothing about Happy Feet till maybe two years ago.īRANNON: By that time, we were past the point of no return. We did wind up looking at some parts of March as visual reference. Ash and I got on it about three-and-a-half years ago, and by the time March of the Penguins came out, we’d already designed all our characters and were pretty set with our story. Chris Jenkins actually came up with the idea about five years ago. Given how long it makes to produce a CG feature, that must suck.īUCK: We started on Surf’s Up before we even knew about any of those other movies. So you’re coming out at the tail end, as it were, of all these other penguin movies. Here’s what they had to say about poop jokes, getting Jeff Bridges to act in a cartoon, and just how stoned the stoner chicken in Surf’s Up really is. But trust me, it will be a damn shame if folks don’t also flock to theaters to embrace Surf’s Up, a smart, very funny mockumentary that follows a young penguin surfer named Cody (voiced by Shia LaBeouf) on an odyssey to meet his surfing idol, ”Big Z” (voiced by Jeff Bridges.) ( Click here for Lisa Schwarzbaum’s review.) We caught up with the flick’s talented ‘toon-vet directors, Ash Brannon (a former Pixar artist and codirector of Toy Story 2) and Chris Buck (an ex-Disney guy, who codirected the technically brilliant Tarzan). Grosses were also high for the live-action denizens of March of the Penguins ( watch a brilliant French TV trailer for it here), and for the ”motion-capture” singing and tap-dancing CG penguins of last winter’s Happy Feet. Have audiences had their fill of penguins? After all, they’ve already gone cuckoo for the animals in DreamWorks’ CG flick Madagascar.
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