Adventures of Scamper the Penguin
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Manufacturer: Allumination
Starring: Virginia Masters
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ALLUMINATION FILM WORKS LLC
EAN: 0084296408412
Format: Color
Label: Allumination
Manufacturer: Allumination
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Allumination
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Running Time: 76
Studio: Allumination
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Follow along with scamper & his pal snowflake as they venture across the most magnificent continent - antarctica. Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 03/06/2007 Run time: 85 minutes
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Summary: Blood and Peril in Antarctica
Comment: * some spoilers here*
I have not seen this particular version of the film nor have I partaken in the DVD.
Nonetheless a few thoughts about this film from a viewer who has seen this in the original state.
The production is Soviet-Japanese from 1986 - an extremely popular cartoon from where I'm from (Russia). I recently revisited the film after finally seizing upon it after years and years of memories. I was only a child when I first saw the cartoon and I recall that it affected me greatly.
These kinds of viewings are always risky, because in my adult age I am often disappointed, but my recollections were so vivid that I was convinced that this had to have been something special.
I figured out why this stayed with me for so long. As a kid you are not exposed to much peril in animation. Disney in particular keeps its films very free of any suggestions of danger. There are exceptions like the Lion King, but any kind of death there is accompanied with redemption and clear-cut distinctions between good and evil. Things are not as simple here. We have evil, but we also have instinct and basic survival, meaning laws of nature. Sometimes no one is to blame.
I had a similar experience recently with another Japanese animated work "Pom Poko", which was about a rather bittersweet existence of racoons. Bittersweet is also a good way to describe Scamper or, as they called him in Russian, "Lolo". The ending is profoundly open-ended - not happy but hopeful and somewhat sad. It was affecting.
Now, I know that this is the American version and I bet that it underwent a lot of changes, so I do wonder how much of the peril it has. The original version of course has the final confrontation with the poachers where they shoot at the penguins and kill a few. Interestingly enough I did not recall this happening specifically, but I did remember appreciating the fact that the filmmakers did not treat their young viewers as fools. There is no false merriment and the penguins' land is not a Disney-fied theme park ride. In fact, part of the effect that this cartoon had on this young viewer was in presenting Antarctica as large, barren, mysterious and somewhat melancholic.
The penguins' resilience through the tough conditions of Antarctica and the inherent dangers of human and animal variety is essentially the story. As characters our little baby penguins are not the drivers of the narrative, but are instead caught within one - where the land and its inhabitants thrust them into great danger. This is very non-Disney.
Kids should be exposed to this. This is not about redemption, but about survival and friendship.
The sad thing is that the American version has apparently replaced the wonderfully lyrical original score with an upbeat one. Shucks.
Rating: a neutral 3 out of 5 as I still haven't seen the American version, but the original is wonderful of course.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Only movie I remember growing up
Comment: I don't remember much from my childhood. I remember Cabbage Patch Kids, Glow Worms, and Scamper.
I used to watch this movie over and over and over. The story kept me completely enthralled. I remember being very stimulated by it, always thinking. I was obsessed. I think it's a must have for kids. It's great, will keep kid occupied, and isn't annoying at all.
Another reviewer on here commented about how negative an infulence it is. It's not, at all. They're really just probably the type of parents who shelter their child from everything, think their kid can do no wrong, and everything that is wrong with parents these days, because there seriously isn't anything negative about this movie.
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Summary: Guns! Violence! Kidnap! Blood!!!
Comment: We got this for our 3 year old daughter after reading reviews here and looking at the cute box cover. She loves penguins and penguin stories.
This movie was horrible and shocking! The fathers abandon their eggs, the seagulls steal the eggs, at one point you see a penguin with bloody scratches along its back, the evil (and I do mean evil) sailors kidnap the penguin children, they shoot the old penguin (yes they just nick him but really do we need to show our kids people shooting penguins in children's films), the sailor's ship is then capsized and presumably they're all killed.
Scamper the cute little penguin. More like Rambo meets Happy Feet. Do not buy this please!
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Summary: Penguin heaven
Comment: I teach Kindergarten and this is my FAVORITE video for this age group. (First and second graders like it too. Scamper has some exciting adventures and really captures the attention of the children. Also, as an added bonus, the cartoon creators were able to sneak in a lot of scientific facts without the kids catching on that they were learning while they were having fun!
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Summary: Fun for toddlers!
Comment: This CD is a marvelous one for all children; it is clean, provides a good moral and is very entertaining. My granddaughter, aged 2, loves to watch it over and over.
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