![]() The group of baby penguins watching him laugh and Erik loses all his confidence, hiding in a small ice crevice. ![]() After a couple seconds of trying, he twirls out of control and slips, sliding down a small hill, up a ramp, and plants himself headfirst into the snow. He asks why he would want to dance, and Mumble replies, "The only way to find out, is to try it." Mumble promises that no one would laugh at him if he tried, so Erik does so. In Happy Feet Two, Mumble and Erik haven't been getting along because of Erik's refusal to try to find a passion. He is also seen dancing with his father, his mother, his paternal grandfather, his paternal grandmother, Noah the Elder, his adoptive uncles, and Mrs. So basically, this movie is named after one small part of the entire story, and “Thunderdome” as a cultural touchstone refers to that one short scene.In Happy Feet at the end of the movie, he appears only as his cameo appearance when he is dancing with the Amigos and his parents in the reprise version of " I Wish". Somehow, a group of the children, led by Max, wind up at Bartertown, then have to escape Bartertown, and then the kids head back to what’s left of Sydney and Max is…wandering the desert again and the audience is left wondering what the hell just happened for the last 106 minutes. The half-pints think Max is there to save them, but he loudly and grumpily assures them he’s not. Any parent stuck doing distance learning with their kids right now will recognize the filthy, half-dressed kids as our collective worst nightmare slowly coming true. Just as he’s about to die, he’s found by the leader of a tribe of feral children, which makes nothing but sense. Aunty turns against Max and he’s thrown out into the desert wasteland. Aunty kicks off “another episode of Thunderdome!” by ziplining in on a throne-like a badass, and then Mel Gibson fights for his life in an extremely well-shot action sequence. Through some convoluted red herring plot points, Max winds up fighting Blaster in the eponymous Thunderdome on behalf of Aunty so that Master will STFU and let her run Bartertown. Bartertown is run by a woman called Aunty (Tina Turner), whose power (both literal and figurative) is threatened by a guy called Master and his thug Blaster. Our hero, Max (Mel Gibson, back when he was a heartthrob), wanders into a place called Bartertown, where the citizens and traders dress like someone who has never heard of BDSM decided to design haute couture for that community. And that’s not even the weirdest part of this film.ĭirected by George Miller, who has written, directed, and produced all the films in the Mad Max franchise, as well as… Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2 (talk about range)… Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome takes us back to the 1980s era of post-nuclear apocalypses. Sure, Hunger Games also applies to these situations, but long before Katniss ever volunteered as Tribute, a guy named Mad Max got thrown into a cage match to fight on behalf of Tina Turner. For example, in the week before social distancing, the bottled water section of my local Costco was a full-on Thunderdome of people pushing, shoving, and trying to outwit the “one case per person” rule. It’s like Godwin’s Law of terrible circumstances. ![]() Whenever it feels like the end of the world, the word “Thunderdome” ultimately pops up somewhere.
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