That makes the Elders a (slightly) more sympathetic bunch, since there's nothing wrong with their faith or their ancient wisdoms. I've heard a lot of complaints about how most of the "denominations" illustrated were portrayed, but it's more complex than merely "Lovelace the con man" or "Noah the narrow-minded control freak." Noah and the elders remind me of Stiff Tail of Uhura's Song, with the difference that Noah denied the situation out of honest ignorance. There definitely are religious themes in this film: theodicy, sincerity, sincere people being sincerely wrong, inflexibility as a hindrance to growth, and "rejoice without ceasing" in the face of suffering. Too many people would try to make money off it like Michigan J. Having said that, the odds that someone actually would release a dancing penguin if they found one are slim. Therefore when all the penguins danced, it said Feed Me. "The first time around, I too wondered why the humans would assume that a dancing penguin equals "we need to stop overfishing the seas." Best guess is that Mumble taught them while they were studying him. "Mumble refuses to acquiesce to this kind of misology (he blames the fish recession on aliens, thusly discredited as a wild conspiracy theorist)." There’s a completely lovely scene where Mumble is placed in a zoo and sees himself surrounded by a wall of human faces (which all come with an extraordinary degree of photographic realism). It makes for an appealingly intelligent metaphor – a penguin with a tracking tag on its leg is seen as an abductee the remains of a mining base as alien artefacts and in one scene the image of an icebreaker moving through the fog becomes something akin to the mothership of lights from Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). "The script has the clever idea of interpreting the penguins’ encounters with human civilization in terms of an analogue for alien abduction. NOTES - Metaphors in Happy Feet - Various interpretations from different reviewers
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