If you’ve ever wanted to take home an Oscar winner, now’s your chance as the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow animated blockbuster Happy Feet dances it way to home video today after capping off a successful awards season with the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The disc offers several extras, including previously unreleased sequences and a classic Tex Avery toon.
Happy Feet features Elijah Wood from the Lord of the Rings trilogy as the voice of Mumble, a young penguin born into a nation of singing Emperor penguins where each needs a heart song to attract a soul mate. Since Mumble is cursed with being the worst singer in the world, he learns to rely on his tap dancing skills to catch the eye of a special young lady. Directed by George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, the Mad Max saga), Happy Feet is an animated musical comedy that also stars the voices of Brittany Murphy (King of the Hill) Hugh Jackman (Flushed Away), Nicole Kidman (His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass), Robin Williams (Robots) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix trilogy).
DVD bonus features include two new fully animated sequences titled ‘Mumble Meets a Blue Whale’ and ‘A Happy Feet Moment,’ a private dance lesson with Savion Glover, and music videos for Gia’s ‘Hit Me Up’ and Prince’s Golden Globe-winning tune ‘The Song of the Heart.’ Also included is the classic 1936 cartoon I Love to Singa, a Merrie Melodies short directed by the great Tex Avery. The DVD carries a suggested retail price of $28.99. The HD DVD Combo lists for $39.99 and the Blue-ray Disc for $34.99.
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