San Diego Reader

Here is your chance to see a penguin pee upside down, to hear Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as brave krill eager to escape the swarm (“Goodbye, krill world”), and to hear a kid penguin sing a Puccini aria with lyrics such as, “Life’s just a big pile of crazy.” George Miller directed the Antarctic critter comedy, with good animation and voices (Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Pink, Common) that should please the target demographic. But into the singing, dancing, ice athletics, big-eyed cuteness, and ethnic types as sea life, the global warming-and-melting message slips like a cold shiv. 2011.

— David Elliott

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• Rated PG | 1 hour, 45 minutes
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