Happy Feet Review (4 years in the making)

While the CG is absolutely incredible, and with a second film on the way, the look of the picture is sure to get more and more realistic.  Instead of portraying humans as goofy looking CG abominations they input actual footage of people into the roles.  The tap dancing provided by the always amazing Savion Glover, along with a multitude of performances from Robin Williams certainly adds to the appeal of the project.
Unfortunately, that is all this movie has going for it before it turns into an environmental propaganda mobile.
Fine, it's a kids film, trying to educate not only a younger generation about the dangers that man produces on an environment, but also, tries to show an older generation what could be done to help fix a major issue with wildlife and eventually man.  So it's an environmental kids propaganda film with Penguins.

The first 75% of the movie works for me.  With a buildup of a lone penguin being cast out of his home because he doesn't sing like all the other penguins, the possibilities of this film could be great.  We could learn a story about how just because a person is different by their actions, we should all be accepted.  This penguin tap dances and is cast out, similar to homosexuals being ostracized by a group because of their preferences, or a student who is bullied or segregated by his classmates because they are different.  If only, if ONLY this movie were really that good to point out something like this to the kid audience it wants so desperately to reach.
The last 25% that made up the denouement of the movie killed whatever enjoyment I had.  A single and sole penguin follows a fishing ship (no totally unbelievable, but...really?  Okay...), It loses the ship and washes up on a beach somewhere, where it then is picked up and taken to a zoo (okay, I can kind of buy that...), there the penguin uses his tap dancing abilities to woo audiences (wait, wait, wait, what?), and instead of Shamu-ing the crap out of the little fellow like any other for-profit company would do they decide to let him go (what what what?) cause he's so lovable and they want to see him go home.
Ignore the fact that if there's something special about an animal, the typical human business reaction is to put a price tag on the thing and sell the crap out of it.  Not let it go.  They find Shamu and she brings in BANK to SeaWorld.  Did they release her when audiences started noticing her?  No.  Price Tag.  Entrance Fee.  Animal: dies in captivity.  End of story.  Sure, it's a kids film and they want to end on a happy (foot) note, but there's just so much B.S. I can stand.  I can tolerate a little suspension of belief.  I can believe that people are able to change overnight and bullies will back down when they get stood up to by the nerd, but to try and convince kids that there are actually people out there that will change entire world situations, businessmen who will not look at the bottom line when it comes to making a buck, and blatantly lying to kids by telling them that this is how the world works, completely kills me.
Where was I?  Upon releasing the penguin back to Antarctica with a tracking device so humans can follow and study the penguins, the humans find that the penguins can ALL TAPDANCE, AND THEREFORE ALL COMMERCIAL FISHING SHOULD STOP. PERIOD. End of story.  But wait review-man... NO! That's it! That's the whole thing in a bottle.  End of story!
That this movie beat out Cars (granted, Pixar's weakest since A Bugs Life) is an insult to the history of the Academy Awards and to every other award ceremony it won in.  I could never recommend this movie to anyone, despite the environmental message it preaches.  There's a right way and a completely cram it down your throat way of bringing to light the environmental concerns of others.  This...not one of them...