4077. Mrs. Astrakhan

Mrs. Astrakhan is a character who appears in the movie Happy Feet. She is portrayed as a large operatic penguin, much like the impression of opera singers today. She has a foreign, yet broken English, German-Russian accent; she pronounces her V's as W's and pronounces her 'ings' as a k, such as "Feelink," "Darlink" or "Sink" and sometimes rolls her R's. After Mrs. Viola suggests Mumble should see Mrs. Astrakhan, Mrs. Astrakhan is seen singing Ochi Cheryne (Dark Eyes) which suggests it may be her heartsong.
Viewed as the best teacher in the lands, she is known to never fail in her teachings, as stated by Mrs. Viola; "If anyone can, Mrs. Astrakhan can." Mrs. Astrakhan tried her hardest to teach the tone-deaf Mumble and was deeply distressed when she felt she had failed him, "I never fail before! Never! Never!" sobbing and banging her head on a block of ice.

However, she did not fail in her teachings; she taught Mumble that there was a feeling inside his soul--who he truly was--a tap dancer; this likely reinforced his talents in tap dancing.

3881. Mumble the penguin

Mumble the penguin and Swerve and Slide

Mumble was born to Norma Jean and Memphis, and was dropped when he was an egg, which is very bad for the baby penguin. Due to this, Mumble does not develop properly, keeping his baby fur. Mumble aquires a fascination with humans, as he calls the Aliens. Mumble, due to his lack of development, is unable to graduate, though he goes with the graduatees anyway. He is voiced by Elijah Wood, and his motion-capture is done by Savion Glover. He has no definite Heartsong, but many think it's I Wish by Stevie Wonder because of the constant use of the song in the film.

At the graduation party, Mumble's friend Gloria sings for everyone, but when Mumble tries to join in, he gets chucked out. A leopard seal chases him far away to where the Adele Penguins live, where he befriends a misfit club call the Amigo's, who are led by Ramón. The Amigos can sing songs well, but they Lovestone's, instead of singing, which they fail at. Mumble encounters the humans, and the Amigos advise him to talk to Lovelace, a guru penguin. Lovelace has plastic rings from a six pack around his neck, which he claims the mystic beings gave to him. Mumble then returns home, but after embarrassing himself in front of Gloria leaves. Mumble tries to find the humans, but gets put in a zoo, where his tap dancing attracts world wide attention, when he is released into the wild, with the humans stopping over fishing. He then mates with Gloria, and in Happy Feet Two, has a son named Erik.

Mumble in an under-developed emperor penguin, who (although achieving the appropriate height) still appears to look like a baby penguin. However, throughout the movie, he begins to molt. His feathers fall off in patches that make it so he appears to be wearing a bow-tie and tap dancing shoes. During the scene where he was chased by a leapoard seal, his tail was split in two, resembling coat tails. Towards the end of the film he was clearly going to look like a typical emperor penguin, but in the second film he shows no clear sign of looking like a normal penguin. His blue eyes are a result of being dropped as an egg, but were also modeled after his voice actor, Elijah Wood.

Happy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released in North America on November 17, 2006. It is the first animated feature film produced by Kennedy Miller in association with visual effects/design company Animal Logic.
Though primarily an animated film, Happy Feet does incorporate motion capture of live action humans in certain scenes. The film was simultaneously released in both conventional theatres and in IMAX 2D format. The studio had hinted that a future IMAX 3D release was a possibility. However, Warner Bros., the film’s production company, was on too tight a budget to release Happy Feet in IMAX digital 3D.
Happy Feet won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
The film was dedicated in memory of Nick Enright, Michael Jonson, Robby McNeilly Green, and Steve Irwin.

3559. Brian the snail

Brian is the cynical snail in the Magic Roundabout. He was also known as Ambroise in the original French political satire. Jim Broadbent played as Brian the snail in the American Film version of Magic Roundabout.

The Magic Roundabout (known in the original French as Le Manège enchanté) was a children's television programme created in France in 1963 by Serge Danot. Some 450 five-minute-long episodes were made and were originally broadcast between 1964 and 1971 on ORTF.
The BBC produced a version of the series using the original stop motion animation footage with new English-language scripts, written and performed by Eric Thompson, that had no relation to the original storylines. This version, broadcast from 18 October 1965 to 25 January 1977, was a great success and attained cult status, being watched by adults for its dry humour as much as by the children for whom it was intended.

1856. Norma Jean