The cuteness of penguins arrived on the world stage in 2005, when Morgan Freeman voiced the documentary “March of the Penguins.” A year later, we had cute tap-dancing penguins in “Happy Feet.” (Penguins had become hot). Then, the “Madagascar” cartoon series needed to have some penguins too.
A disparate set of mismatched components stitched together to form a coherent whole. That’s either a description of the machine at the heart of this worthy biopic or a loose critique of Headhunters director Morten Tyldum’s examination of one of history’s most overlooked heroes. It is in fact both.
The cuteness of penguins arrived on the world stage in 2005, when Morgan Freeman voiced the documentary “March of the Penguins.” A year later, we had cute tap-dancing penguins in “Happy Feet.” (Penguins had become hot). Then, the “Madagascar” cartoon series needed to have some penguins too.
A disparate set of mismatched components stitched together to form a coherent whole. That’s either a description of the machine at the heart of this worthy biopic or a loose critique of Headhunters director Morten Tyldum’s examination of one of history’s most overlooked heroes. It is in fact both.