I don't know about CNN, but there's an op-ed in
USA Today that includes
Happy Feet as part of a larger commentary on children's culture in general, but the complaint about gay overtones is actually referring to a children's book:
And Tango Makes Three.
Here ya go. They misspelled pwns. Quote:
A few families of students in Shiloh, a town of 11,000 people 20 miles east of St. Louis, object to the general availability of And Tango Makes Three, an illustrated storybook that loosely follows the real-life story of two male penguins at New York City's Central Park Zoo who adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own. With its enthusiastic celebration of little Tango's good fortune at possessing "two fathers," and with the narrative's fanciful suggestion that the zoo keeper "thought to himself ... they must be in love," the book clearly took a position in the ongoing arguments about same-sex coupling and homosexual families. In fact, the story concludes with the observation that Silo and Roy "discovered each other in 1996 and have been a couple ever since."
Happy Feet was criticized because the content was deemed too dark for young children.
Quote:
The studio promoted the picture as a feel-good frolic for the whole family, featuring an endorsement quote that promised, "Adults and kids alike will be dancing in the aisles."
Then later,
Quote:
The endearing creatures on screen face the deadly menace of leopard seals, killer whales and, most of all, human pollution, overconsumption and exploitation. In the advance screening I attended, one worried mother of a 5-year-old took her anxious, fretful, anguished little boy from the theater during the film's relentless scenes of cute and cuddly penguins in intense pain and deadly peril.
Edited, Nov 30th 2006 11:34am by Atomicflea