Did you catch this in Surf’s Up? The animated film Surf’s Up is not the first or the only one to feature penguins. George Miller’s Happy Feet, which followed an Emperor Penguin as he learned to tap dance while other penguins of his species sang instead, was published a year earlier, in 2006. Of course, the two movies were made at the same time. The fact that the movie Surf’s Up made reference to Happy Feet may have been due to the fact that it was released a year later. It’s also important to note that Happy Feet came out the year after the documentary March of the Penguins, which led to an unusual period of penguin obsession in the 2000s.
