Penguins (2019)

It isn't hard to make an entertaining film about penguins. Point the camera at them and let the charismatic buggers go about their lives and bam you have a fun film. Their incredibly beautiful and inaccessible landscape is mesmerizing and their struggle for survival is extremely captivating. Penguin movies make themselves.

Disney has focused on one "everyman" penguin they've named Steve and through following one brief antarctic summer in his life they give us the basics of the penguin life cycle. While we learn a lot about penguins, an into to penguin life 101, it is all wrapped up in a fun accessible story which is safe enough for the youngest viewers but compelling enough for anyone of any age. Steve falls in love and raises children and survives predators. It is all here.

Ed Helms narrates and voices Steve in his personified adventures. He doesn't over do it as he sometimes does, keeping a rather casual vocalization of Steve's thoughts. Penguins tells as simple but extremely enjoyable tale of the life of an average penguin, one of the most lovable species on the planet. I dare you not to enjoy this.

Penguins
Starring: Ed Helms, Steve
Directors: Alistair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson
Writer: David Fowler