Happy Feet/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Corpse Bride

Triple bill featuring three popular family movies. 'Happy Feet' (2006) is an animated comedy featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman and Elijah Wood. Emperor penguins have lived for centuries with one simple goal in life: to find their soul mates through their own unique heart song. Mumble (Wood), son of Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Kidman) is the worst singer in the world but he is a brilliant tap dancer. Unfortunately in Antarctica his toe-tapping talent is deemed peculiar and poor Mumble is branded an outcast by the Emperor Elders. and is even accused of causing the mysterious fish famine which is gripping the penguin community and threatening their way of life. Mumble decides to leave his family and goes on a journey to determine the real cause of the fish famine so he can prove his innocence. All adrift in a lonely hostile world, he meets The Amigos, a wise-cracking comedy crew of Latino Adelie penguins led by Ramon (Williams), who think Mumble's smooth dance moves are 'accidentally cool' and a great way to impress the chicas. The Amigos help him realise the importance of being true to oneself and that being unique is a good thing.

Mumble uses courage, determination and, of course, his 'happy feet' to discover the truth, save Emperor Land and win the heart of his soul mate Gloria (Brittany Murphy). 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (2005) is based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) and father (Noah Taylor) and both pairs of grandparents. They all live in a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing Charlie sees from his window is the great factory, and he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly fifteen years, no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of the factory, or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself, yet, mysteriously, great quantities of chocolate are still being made and shipped to shops all over the world. One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and reveal 'all of its secrets and magic' to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. When Charlie finds some money on the snowy street and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight he finds a golden ticket. The family decides that Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) should be the one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Once inside, Charlie is dazzled by one amazing sight after another. Finally, 'Corpse Bride' (2005) is an animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th century European village, the film follows the story of Victor (voiced by Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love.

Director: George Miller
Director: Tim Burton
Director: Mark Johnson
Producer: Bill Miller
Producer: Doug Mitchell
Producer: Brad Grey
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck
Producer: Allison Abbate
Writer: Warren Coleman
Writer: John Collee
Writer: Judy Morris
Writer: John H. August
Writer: Pamela Pettler
Writer: Caroline Thompson
Music: John Powell
Music: Danny Elfman
Actor: Missi Pyle
Actor: James Fox
Actor: Deep Roy
Actor: Christopher Lee
Actor: Adam Godley
Actor: Johnny Depp
Actor: Freddie Highmore
Actor: David Kelly
Actor: Helena Bonham Carter
Actor: Noah Taylor
Voice: Brittany Murphy
Voice: Hugh Jackman
Voice: Nicole Kidman
Voice: Hugo Weaving
Voice: Joanna Lumley
Voice: Robin Williams
Voice: Carlos Alazraqui
Voice: Lombardo Boyar
Voice: Emily Watson
Voice: Chrissie Hynde
Voice: Tracey Ullman
Voice: Anthony LaPaglia
Voice: Paul Whitehouse
Voice: Steve Irwin
Voice: Albert Finney
Voice: Richard E. Grant
Voice: Michael Gough