Happy Feet

Mumble:
Don't ask me to change, Pa. Because I can't.

Mumble:
(attempting to sing) Twinkle twinkle little (grating squawking) STAAAR!

Mumble:
(to Mrs. Astrakhan) I'm being spontan-you-us.

Lovelace:
Hold it y'all, I have a warning for everyone. Ladies, please avert your eyes... because I've been known to hypnotize. You've heard the voice. Now you're about to meet the one-and-only Lovelace in the flesh, right here, right on, right now.

Lovelace:
There is a POWER that makes me STAND upon this TOWER!

Lovelace:
ENOUGH! You bring this stranger before me?! He doubts my powers! He compares me to a skua! The voices are shrieking inside my head - they're sayin' "Lovelace! Who is this fool?! Tell him! Tell him to go f- (slight pause) forth and multiply! (Crowd gasps) Come to think of it... why don't we all go forth... and multiply?"

Lovelace:
I will retire now to my couch of perpetual indulgence. OK ladies, who's first?

Lovelace:
(yelling at a pair of orcas that tried to eat him) ENOUGH! Tis a bad day fo' you! You dealin' with LOVELACE now, and my man Mumble here! BEGONE, demon fish-a! Adios-a. Andiamo-hah. That's right! Boo-hoo; you high-tail it back to yo mamas. Don't make me come in the watah! I'll come after your sons and daughtahs! (fast: "I'm gonna give you the bad eye"; breaks into gibberish.)

Lovelace:
Testify to that... Right on...

Lovelace:
(How tall do you think that tall boy was?) Who can say? Taller than anyone.

Lovelace:
HEY! It's me, Lovelace; formerly known as Guru! I'm gonna be tellin' your story, Happy Feet! Long after you dead and gone!

Ramon:
Kiss my frozen tushie! Kiss it, kiss it!

Ramon:
(mocking the retreating leopard seal) He's leaving. OH, WAIT, THAT WAS HIS FACE!

Ramon:
(repeated line) Mommy, mommy, mommy.

Ramon:
(after hearing Mumble sing) Yeah, I once heard an animal do that, but then they rolled him over, he was dead.

Ramon:
I know size can be daunting, but don't be afraid. I love you. I LOVE YOU!

Ramon:
(afraid to jump off a cliff) I can do this, I can do this... I can trick myself! (pointing to the sky on the edge of the cliff) Boy, look at that! What? (falls and shrieks)

Ramon:
How are we gonna tell his mama he bring us all this way just to kill himself?

Ramon:
I like big tails and I can't deny!

Ramon:
Wait a second. I hear people wanting something... (everyone leans in to listen) ME!

Ramon:
(repeated line) Let me tell something to ju.... ["Ju" is "You"]

Ramon:
We got personality with a capital "Y". Why? Because we're hot!

Ramon:
(to the penguins after they banish Mumble) We sing the heart of our true friend, Mumble! You are a nation of peeny-weeny, piffling piccolini, piddily-diddily POOFT!

Ramon:
(after coming up with an idea) Okay, lets take a moment for myself: bow down, bow down. Okay, stop. I feel the love.

Ramon:
(mocking leopard seal) He's coming! We better move in half an hour! (Slowly) Let's get out of here!

Noah the Elder:
Raise your voices, brothers! Give praise to the Great 'Guin, who put songs in our hearts and fish in our bellies!

Noah the Elder:
(to the colony who were dancing) It is this kind of backsliding that has brought the scarcity upon us!

Noah the Elder:
So it follows. Dissent leads to division and division leads us to doom! You, Mumble Happyfeet, must go!

Noah the Elder:
Raise your voices, brothers! Cry out in defiance of this jiggity-joggity! Yes, yes, call upon the wisdoms! Let the world tremble! For when all others leave ... WE REMAIN!

Gloria:
(pecking Mumble's egg) Is it empty? Can I have it?

Gloria:
Hey, come back here, Mr. Mumble!

Gloria:
(after Mumble drives her away) Ugh! You stubborn, hippity-hoppity fool!

Miss Viola:
A penguin without a heart song is hardly a penguin at all!

Miss Viola:
If anyone can Mrs. Astrakhan can.

Memphis:
I wouldn't do that around folks, son. It just ain't penguin.

Memphis:
If we are devout, sincere in our praise, the fish will return.

Memphis:
For all our sake, you must stop this freakishness with the feet.

Norma Jean:
Boys! Give a chick a chance.

Norma Jean:
Don't you take one step, sweetheart. You have as much right to be here as any of these daffy old fools.

Boss Skua:
[to Mumble] The flipper birds-- that’s you-- eat the fish. The flying boys-- that’s me-- eat the flipper bird and the fish. And lately, there ain't a lot of fish.

Boss Skua:
[telling Mumble about how he got the yellow tag on his leg] I got two words for you, kid: Alien abduction.

(after Mumble fails at his singing lessons)

Mumble:
Hey, y'know what? I can leave school! I can go to work! The three of us...

Memphis:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, little fella. You ain't going nowhere until you've got yourself an education. Get them singing muscles big and strong. You got that?

Mumble:
I'll try, pa.

Memphis:
You bet you will. The word "triumph" starts with "try" and it ends with--

Mumble:
"Umph"!

Memphis:
That's right - a great big "umph"! I'm going fishing.

Leopard Seal:
(to Mumble) Come here, you sausage. I take you with ketchup.

Ramon:
But first you got to catch up!

Raul:
Oh, here he comes! We better move in half an hour!

Leopard Seal:
Remember, dumplings, I know where you live...

Raul:
It's called LAND, lard-face!

Nestor:
Rub back any time, blubber-butt!

Mumble:
(to the leopard seal) See you, fatty!

(The Amigos pause and look at Mumble for a moment)

Raul:
That's cool! "See you, fatty!"

(The Amigos laugh)

Ramon:
Did it take you a while to come up with that one?!

Ramon:
Chica chica, boom! (the four other Amigos join in with a hip thrust action) Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Mumble:
You're not interested in chicas?

Ramon:
You kidding?! Without us, the chicas got no BOOM!

Lovelace:
Hear me! There's not enough love in the world. Turn to the penguin next to you, put your flippers up, fluff him up a little bit and give him a great big hug!

Raul:
(to Ramon) What you huggin' me for?!

Ramon:
He told me to.

Raul:
Get away!

Ramon:
No, you like it...

Nestor:
Get off him, Ramon.

Ramon:
You've just got to do exactly what I say!

Mumble:
Okay.

Ramon:
Did I say "okay"?

Mumble:
No.

Ramon:
What did I say?

Mumble:
Do exactly what you say.

Ramon:
EXACTLY... what I say!

(after Mumble drives Gloria away)

Nestor:
Amigo, that is a good thing you do.

Ramon:
She is going to be so much better off without you. She is going to find a good steady guy to comfort her...

(Raul attempts to slap him, but misses)

Ramon:
...and love her up real good and raise a big family, then she gone let herself go...

Rinaldo:
Ramon. RAMON! He's hurting. He's hurting bad.

Lombardo:
Why would Lovelace help?

Raul:
He not like you at all.

Mumble:
I'll just appeal to his better nature.

Nestor:
How you gonna do that?

Raul:
Cruel and unusual punishment?

Lombardo:
Unimaginable torture?

Ramon:
Imaginable torture?

Rinaldo:
Your singing?

Ramon, Nestor, Raul and Lombardo:
NO!!!

Rinaldo:
(imitates Mumble's singing) Can anybody find meeeeeeeeee?

Lombardo:
Ohhh... you breaking the ice!

Ramon:
Avalanche!

Mumble:
Yes, okay, thank you...

Mumble:
Excuse me. What is this place?

Penguin:
[in a HAL 9000-like voice] You're in Heaven, Dave - Penguin Heaven.

Mumble:
Is it anywhere near Emperor Land?

Penguin:
It's wherever you want it to be. Try the water, Dave. It's really real.

(Mumble eventually succumbs to madness in the zoo and "sees" and hears his family and friends on a wall.)

Norma Jean:
So you found the fish, baby?

Mumble:
(turns to look at the wall) Ma?

Norma Jean:
Hi, sweetie.

Mumble:
Ma!

Ramon:
Fluffy! No matter what they say or do, we never stop believing in you.

Other Amigo:
So, you'll be back soon?

Norma Jean:
Hey, c'mon! Let him eat.

Gloria:
Go ahead, Dave. Don't mind us.

Mumble:
But there's plenty for everyone!

Norma Jean:
It's OK, sugar. We can wait.

(The vision begins to melt and fade.)

Mumble:
No, no! Ma! Ma! Th-there's, th-there's lots here! There's enough for everyone! MA!

(Mumble tries to throw a fish to his mother. It hits the wall and falls off, but he keeps trying desperately.)

Noah:
You led them here? You turned them on your own kind?!

Gloria:
Wait a second. You just said there's no such thing as aliens.

Noah:
...Well, there's not. But if there were, only a traitorous fool would bring them here!

Mumble:
But they have to come! They're the ones taking our fish. They can do something about it.

Noah:
None but the Great 'Guin hath the power to give and take away!

Mumble:
But the Great 'Guin didn't put things out of whack, the aliens did!

Noah:
A fool returns this day to mock our suffering! We are starving and he wants us to hippity-hop! So! Do we hold fast to our ways? Or do we bend to the fetid fantasies of a dancing fool?!

Warning:
May Cause Toe-Tapping.

Everybody Dance Now!

What's Your Heartsong?