Happy Feet [SOUNDTRACK]

Original Soundtrack (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 31, 2006)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B000I5X7ZW
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,352 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
If the producers of the movie Happy Feet had enough foresight, they would have dispatched a CD vendor with batches of this disc to every theater exit sign in America. Outside of Shrek and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, few kiddie flicks have fed a need to hear certain songs again as effectively. That's in part because of "Song of the Heart," a suitably frisky Prince number you won't find anywhere else. But it also has something to do with the efforts of some unlikely performers. Who knew Brittany Murphy could sing? "Boogie Wonderland," her cover of the '70s classic, crackles with big-voiced confidence, and "Somebody to Love," another classic cover, claws listeners in by the flipper-ful. Even Robin Williams's typically manic "My Way (a Mi Manera)" isn't without its charms. Nicole Kidman's "Kiss" mashed with Hugh Jackman's "Heartbreak Hotel" may be among the disc's weaker moments, but the grownups will like it that way--with their kind of star wattage, they're already stealing enough shows. And there's plenty to focus on besides them: standouts include Pink's untethered rendition of "Tell Me Something Good," k.d. lang's beautiful Beatles medley "Golden Slumbers/The End," and the Beach Boys' underappreciated gem, "Do It Again." --Tammy La Gorce

Product Description
Soundtrack to a comedy adventure--Happy Feet is set deep in Antarctica. Into the land of the Emperor Penguins where each needs a heart song to attract a sould mate, a penguin is born who cannot sing. Our hero Mumble, son of Memphis and Norma Jean, is the worst singer in the world...however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

97 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The movie soundtrack was great...but this is not the REAL movie soundtrack, November 28, 2006

By	Kimberly Link (CT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My daughter and I went to the movie and were so struck by the POWERFUL music that I went out and immediately bought the soundtrack. Where are all those songs the penguins sang? And what about those great mixes? When are these movie folks going to realize that we don't want to hear singers performing songs that were not in the movie--I don't care who they are. We want to hear the same people who sang in the movie, singing on the soundtrack. This makes no sense to me and made even less sense to my 4 year old daughter, who was hugely disappointed with the bulk of the songs on the cd.

We wanted to hear more of the penguin songs and less of the background songs that no one cares about (i.e. "Beach Boys"). If I wanted to hear the Beach Boys, I'd go out and buy their cd. Put something on the soundtrack cd that we can't get anywhere else and forget that old stuff we can get any time we want to.

"Boogie Wonderland," "Somebody to Love" and "Kiss/Heartbreak Hotel" are the only truly awesome songs with actual "Penguin" voices that you will hear on this soundtrack--although "Kiss/Heartbreak" had a much better mix on screen. There is one Robin Williams song, but it was much better in the movie too.

Except for "Boogie Wonderland" (which ends abruptly) you miss out on the great STOMP, tap and mix effects that were so overpowering in the movie.

Let's hope they put a lot more of the original stuff on 2nd soundtrack coming out and get it right.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's alright, December 2, 2006

By	Cloud Clan (Washington) - See all my reviews

Not really the same songs as the movie - or at least not done by the original artists. I paid the money to hear the songs from the movie, not re-done songs by other artists. My children listened to the CD and said, "This isn't how it was done in the movie!" There are one or two that were the same, that's the only reason it has a 3-star rating. Very disappointed.

63 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not the ORIGINAL Soundtrack, November 29, 2006

By	R. Castro "rafaelcjr" (Miramar, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This CD has been heavily Rap-'ised'.
I guess to appeal to Today's Music audience.

The Producers of this CD should have taken a clue from a Hit CD Soundtrack like SHREK and realized that by giving the Music consumer exactly the songs that are on the Movie (not cheap imitations) and in their Exact Movie order they would have had a bigger CD Hit.

If you like to hear the better version of these songs - then record them from the Upcoming DVD.