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Hubie (Martin Short) must present his special pebble to Marina (Annie Golden) before the pebble festival is over, or lose his chance forever.Hubie (Martin Short) must present his special pebble to Marina (Annie Golden) before the pebble festival is over, or lose his chance forever.Hubie (Martin Short) must present his special pebble to Marina (Annie Golden) before the pebble festival is over, or lose his chance forever.
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- 1 nomination
Martin Short
- Hubie
- (voice)
Jim Belushi
- Rocko
- (voice)
- (as James Belushi)
Annie Golden
- Marina
- (voice)
Alissa King
- Petra
- (voice)
Stevie Louise Vallance
- Priscilla
- (voice)
- (as Louise Vallance)
- …
Stan Jones
- McCallister
- (voice)
S. Scott Bullock
- Chubby
- (voice)
- …
Philip L. Clarke
- King
- (voice)
Shani Wallis
- Narrator
- (voice)
B.J. Ward
- Megellenic #1
- (voice)
Hamilton Camp
- Megellenic 2
- (voice)
Angeline Ball
- Gwynne
- (voice)
- …
Kendall Cunningham
- Timmy
- (voice)
Pat Musick
- Pola
- (voice)
- …
Michael Nunes
- Beany
- (voice)
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- TriviaProducer/Co-director Don Bluth so hated the final results of this movie after production was wrapped up that he and his partner, co-director Gary Goldman, demanded to be uncredited. As a result, a credit of "A Don Bluth Ireland Limited Production" has been placed where the directors' credits should've been.
- GoofsBefore the cast begins singing "Good Ship Misery", the dubbing for the coupled penguins in the cage is swapped during the line "Welcome Hubie! Although Welcome probably isn't the appropriate word."
- Crazy creditsThe opening credit/overture sequence is shown with the animated penguin characters playing and cavorting on the sheet music for the songs they're singing.
- Alternate versionsThe VHS release omits the "Distributed by MGM/UA" text.
- SoundtracksNow and Forever
Music by Barry Manilow
Lyrics by Bruce Sussman
Performed by Martin Short, Annie Golden, Jon Joyce, Kevin Bassinson, Susan Boyd, Randy Crenshaw, Yvonne Williams, Bob Joyce, Sally Stevens, Joe Pizzulo, Steve Lively, B.J. Ward, Kevin Dorsey, Stevie Louise Vallance, and Andrea Robinson
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I had heard a lot of bad things about Don Bluth's movies from the 90's and sure Thumbelina, Rock-a-Doodle and Troll in Central Park are bad, but I found Pebble and the Penguin okay. Not at all near his masterpieces from the 80's which I simply love, but okay.
Tim Curry is the highlight of the movie, because it's Tim Curry, c'mon. He is the ultimate voice of a bad-guy and an amazing singer too! His song, "Don't Make Me Laugh", was bad-ass even though it sort of came out of nowhere.
I like the other characters as well. Martin Short did a good job as the introverted and shy Hubie and Annie Golden voiced Marina very well and sincerely and gave us a beautiful song. My least favourite was actually Rocko, he was meant to be this grumpy penguin, but I found that he was a constant asshole being passive-aggressive towards Hubie. But he is not totally one-dimensional, because he changes as the movie progresses and teaches Hubie some lessons too.
The animation had a lot to it. It changed a lot throughout the movie, but mostly it fit the scenes. The music was pretty good too and I don't get why many people say that there are too many songs. They were catchy and well sung. A certain improvement after Thumbelina and Troll.
Tim Curry's character's design was a little stupid, because a penguin on steroids is a little far-fetched to be honest. That was what he looked like, but he was entertaining and that is enough.
In general, an underrated film that will amuse the kids and maybe adults' eyes will get caught by certain aspects of it.
Tim Curry is the highlight of the movie, because it's Tim Curry, c'mon. He is the ultimate voice of a bad-guy and an amazing singer too! His song, "Don't Make Me Laugh", was bad-ass even though it sort of came out of nowhere.
I like the other characters as well. Martin Short did a good job as the introverted and shy Hubie and Annie Golden voiced Marina very well and sincerely and gave us a beautiful song. My least favourite was actually Rocko, he was meant to be this grumpy penguin, but I found that he was a constant asshole being passive-aggressive towards Hubie. But he is not totally one-dimensional, because he changes as the movie progresses and teaches Hubie some lessons too.
The animation had a lot to it. It changed a lot throughout the movie, but mostly it fit the scenes. The music was pretty good too and I don't get why many people say that there are too many songs. They were catchy and well sung. A certain improvement after Thumbelina and Troll.
Tim Curry's character's design was a little stupid, because a penguin on steroids is a little far-fetched to be honest. That was what he looked like, but he was entertaining and that is enough.
In general, an underrated film that will amuse the kids and maybe adults' eyes will get caught by certain aspects of it.
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- Also known as
- A Penguin Story
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- Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,983,912
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,123,041
- Apr 16, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $3,983,912
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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