European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april scene stars and stripes Page 11 new i Buls the Pursuit off happiness comes to delivering it crowd Feaser will Smith is Al the top of the list Smith charmed his Way to another million hit and his second Oscar nomination in this based on the True Story of o single dad whose struggle to provide for his Young son while taking on an unpaid internship at a prestigious stockbroker lands them both on the streets homeless the was a real Fatherson partnership with Smiths boy Jaden Christopher Syre Smith playing his onscreen child along with a to Lunga Featurette disc hoi a segment an Smith and his Young Cantor plus a look at Chris Gardner the Man whose Story inspired the director Gabriele Mucino provides commentary children off men humanity experiences me empty nest syndrome on a global Seafe in this of Yaji fab of a Neaf nit fire Iri which All the kids have flown the Coop Olive Owen Julianne Moore and Michael Cate Star in the Story set in 2027 when ethnic and sock eco i aner a leaves the human race tar of he woman to use her Loir Ihler own ends extras include deleted scenes an interview segment with Owen and Moore and a featuring scholars examining the social strife presented in the film theres also a Featurette on director Alfonso design concepts for Nii future Warmt x to on did v h Mary Hoffman Mary Hartman volume 1 the 1 soap opera spool stars Louise Lasser As a housewife beset by crises Large and Small the not 25 episodes come in a three disc set 1 2 the hit Drew Carey actors ing comedy sketches at a moments notice 30 episodes of the show that debuted in Are pocked in a four disc set Minnesota twins w7 world Serif a sever disc set Louis cardinals team series i my m my in ii Jar atm 1t to four disc if Wim the Jeffersons the com plete sixth season three disc set with 24 episodes touched by an Angel the fourth season volume 1 four disc set with 1 3 Epi 7fb heaven the fourth season six disc set with 22 penguins galore col weather fowl Rule the screens penguins Are anything but rare Birds in Hollywood these Days in the footsteps of March of the penguins and Happy the wave continues with the recently released farce of the penguins spoof the did release of 1995s animated the Pebble and the Penguin and the upcoming summer cartoon surfs about surfing penguins the penguins that instigated the action in Mada Gascar starred in their own cartoon Short and Are being developed As Lead players for a cartoon to show even Robert Altman final movie a Prairie lifeguard Penguin in surfs they just look so Happy feet director George Miller thinks the col weather fowl have become so popular in Holly Wood partly because of a wave of innovative documentaries coming out of Antarctica in the past 15 years or so including 1993s life in the better survival gear and cameras allowed documentary Crews to spend More time chronicling the habits and rituals of penguins with the resulting films helping to push the Birds into the audiences consciousness How Long its going to last Are we at the end of Home featured Garrison Keillor telling it or the beginning of it or in the Middle who a droll joke about the Birds two penguins Are knows surfs up costar Bridges said this standing on an ice Floe the first Penguin says you movie started four years ago there was no March look like Vouge wearing a the second of the penguins or Happy it was just kind of look like youre wearing a the second Penguin says what makes you think in when asked Why the joke is funny Keillor replies i guess because people laugh at the same somehow holds for penguins people laugh at them and love them unconditionally Why just because there funny and lovable there an anthropomorphic gift a Little kid in too Many Winter clothes walking around and falling in the said Chris Jenkins producer of surfs which hits Heaters in june penguins had a big Day March 27 when Happy feet debuted on Home video along with the High definition Blurry and he did disc premieres of March of the the Academy award win Ning film that was a Surprise documentary smash that film prompted comic Bob sages parody farce of the which came out on did in january last weeks did release of the 1995 Ani mated flick the Pebble and the with a voice cast led by Martin Short also is part of the Penguin proliferation there taking Over the said Jeff Bridges who provides the voice of a has been surfing pen Guin in surfs they got a great publicist Man its All going to be Penguin movies from Here on out no More actors its just going to be penguins taking added shia Lebeouf who offers Lead vocals for the movie As a surfing Prodigy mentored by Bridges character people have always been charmed by penguins because they see a lot of themselves in the Birds the Way they walk upright and congregate in communities like humans hanging out on Street Corners penguins human traits have made them popular with animators Over the years a classic cartoon Short has bugs Bunny exasperated with a tiny Penguin that comes into the rabbits keeping a silent Penguin thief touches off the action of the Wallace Grosmit cartoon the wrong there kind of a Miracle of design probably a lot of artists animators Are attracted to said Zooey de Schanel who provides the voice of a Warner Bros pictures one of the penguins celebrates in the recent animated flick Happy in the footsteps of March on the penguins and Happy the wave continues with the recently released farce of the pen Guins mock Centary the did release of animated the Pebble and the Penguin and the upcoming summer cartoon surfs about surfing penguins penguins or Happy it was just in the after seeing life in the Freezer about eight years ago Miller began formulating the Story of Happy about an emperor Penguin voiced by Elijah Wood that unlike his singing Kin cannot carry a tune but can dance up a storm anatomical practicalities give penguins Many of their human qualities Miller said their bulk Insu lates them against the cold their wings evolved As flippers in the water so they resemble arms their Black Hue helps them absorb More heat to stay warm in water while their White bellies Camou Flage them from fish on which they prey so they end up looking like Little people in formal Wear All those things go toward them reminding us enormously of said Miller whose Happy feet won the Oscar for animated films they Are like humans its very easy to turn them into fables in our movie the penguins themselves represent humans and the humans Are indeed the the question for the makers of surfs up is whether the Market can Bear another animated Penguin flick audiences last year seemed to tire of the wave of cartoon tales featuring cute talking animals the films that worked were ones that distinguished themselves from the pack such As cars did with talking autos and Happy feet did with its musical num Bers and realistic animation the surfs up filmmakers incorporated a joking Happy feet reference when Lebe ours character says that Hes a surfer he Doest sing or dance we figured what the Heck its out there lets make a nod to it right at the said Ash Brannon who Codi rented surfs up with Chris Buck doubling up on Simi Lar scenarios is not unusual in Holly Wood in 1998 the insect car Toons Antz and a bugs life both found eager audiences As did the dueling Aster Oid adventures deep Impact and this Summers rodent animated comedy Ratatouille follows last Falls rat tale flushed a Al o cd q
