Penguin Highway

[robkelk]

Epsilon got me to go see Penguin Highway today. (It's playing in Ottawa all weekend.) It was a good movie, and slightly surreal in places.

The movie opens with penguins in a field. In Japan.

Our Hero is in 4th grade, and is the son of a scientist. When he tries to solve the mystery of "why were there penguins in a field in Japan?", things become downright odd.

I suppose I could spoil the movie for folks, ... but, no, this is a movie you should go see before learning anything about the plot.

There's one translator-induced error in it, though:

Spoiler

After seeing a particular Tenniel illustration, we start seeing a Jabberwock in the movie. The Japanese actors called it a Jabberwock. The subtitles, alas, called it a Jabberwocky... which means that the English version has a penguin being chased by a poem instead of by a monster.

But if you listen to the original voices, you can eventually ignore that.

Go see the movie if you can.