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Pebble and the Penguin, The

Ira Zimmerman | 3:32 p.m. Jan. 25, 2000

Here is an excellent romantic tale that will have children
rooting for the most romantic penguin in the world who is
painful shy and has stuttering speech impediment. Hubie is
an unlikely penguin whose comic flaws makes him more
endearing to the audience and to his love, Marina. The
music by Barry Manilow was great. The duet between Manilow
and Sheena Easton at the end of the film was great. Now
that MGM is lowering the video's price to under $10, I hope
that others will buy the film for their children and
friends who stutter.

HaloGirl | 10:37 a.m. July 12, 2000

I love this movie! It's too cute for words. I know, I know,
as a 17 year old girl I should be drooling over Leo
DiCaprio instead of Hubie, but oh well.

This movie is really sweet, and I love the shy romantic
Hubie. I think there's a lot more they could have done with
it (like given the heroine Marina a little more depth), but
all in all it's a great little movie for kids.

Samantha Caras | 7:16 a.m. June 2, 2004

The Full Moon Ceremony Is Almost Ready For The Male
Penguins To Give Stones To Theire Sweetheart To Claim Them
As They're Mates Like Good'ol Hubie (Voice By Martin Short)
Giving His Stone To His Love Marina (Voice By Annie Golden)
But Marina Had Another Admire Drake (Voice By Tim Curry)
He's The Vill Who Throw Hubie Off The Ice Suddenly He Was
Trap On The Ship When He Met Rocko (Voice By Jim Belushi)
So The Two Friends Escape From Bounty Island To Rock
Island As They Reach Ice Follies The Head To Topeka Bridge
An Iceberg Type Bridge Now Rocko and Hubie Forge A
Friendship And The Friendship Will Last Forever They're
Duet "Looks Like I Got Me A Friend." Is Wonderful Like
Hubie's Opening Solo "Sometimes I Wonder." When It Turn
Out To Be True Love Marina Said To Hubie That It's Not The
Perfect Pebble It's A Perfect Penguin That Always Get The
Girl Hubie and Marina Are In Love For Now and Forever

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Samantha Caras | 5:47 p.m. June 16, 2004

I Know The Songs From The Movie I Got The 1'st Song "Now
and Forever" Is Sung By Miss Narrator, James Ingram, The
Boy Penguins, The Girl Penguins & Marina. Then The 2'nd
Song Called "Sometimes I Wonder" That's Performed By
Hubie, He Sing That To Marina About The Things He Wonders
About. 3'rd When He Whishes On A Star He Sings "Now and
Forever (Reprise)" and POOF Hubie Got The Pebble. 4'th
When He Got Thrown Off By His Older Rival Hubie Makes Some
Friends Of Other Penguins While Singing To Him About "The
Good Ship Misery" 5'th The Villian Drake, Confess Marina
She Has Her Answer, Her Answer Is NO!! Drake Was Wrong He
Thought She's Joking In "Don't Make Me Laugh" That's What
Bothering Her. 6'th Marina Was Alone She Sings A Love Song
To Her Boyfriend Hubie "Sometimes I Wonder (Reprise)" Poor
Miss. Lucky 7'th "Looks Like I Got Me A Friend" Is A Duet
Between Hubie and Rocko's Friendship. 8'th When Hubie and
Marina are Married Theire Friends Do "Now and Forever
(Finale)" Hubie, Marina and Rocko all Got Chicks At The
End. and the 9'th "Now and Forever (Duet)" Is Sung by Mr.
Barry Manilow & Ms. Sheena Easton They Do It They're Way.

Little Buddy | 1:35 p.m. Jan. 23, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin is from the making creators of An
American Tail And The Land Before Time

Anonymous | 9:38 p.m. March 9, 2008

From The Animation Directors of An American Tail,The Land Before Time and Thumbelina comes the charming animated adventure movie for the entire family, The Pebble And The Penguin.

Anonymous | 11:24 a.m. March 10, 2008

Drake kinda resembles Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Gaston from Beauty And The Beast.

Anonymous | 11:21 a.m. April 2, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin is made in 1995 after The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King.

Anonymous | 11:36 a.m. April 2, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin is from the credit directors of An American Tail, Sleeping Beauty and Rock-A-Doodle.

Anonymous | 3:31 p.m. April 2, 2008

Rocko almost looks like Zazu from The Lion King.

Anonymous | 11:28 a.m. April 16, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin came out in 1995 after The Little Mermaid,DuckTales The Movie,Beauty And The Beast,Aladdin,Once Upon A Forest and The Lion King.

Anonymous | 11:32 a.m. April 16, 2008

Drake is a bit like Ursula And Gaston.

Anonymous | 11:54 a.m. April 18, 2008

There's one big difference between The Pebble And The Penguin and films like The Little Mermaid,Beauty And The Beast,Aladdin and The Lion King.

Anonymous | 11:37 a.m. May 5, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin is in the excellence of The Lion King and Toy Story.

Anonymous | 11:40 a.m. May 15, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin came out in 1995 after 1989's The Little Mermaid,1990's Ducktales The Movie,1991's Beauty And The Beast,1992's Aladdin,1993's We're Back A Dinosaur's Story,1993's Once Upon A Forest,1994's The Lion King and 1995's Toy Story.

Anonymous | 11:25 a.m. June 5, 2008

The Pebble And The Penguin came out the same time Toy Story came out.

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Movie Info

Rated G for .

Cast: Voices of Martin Short, James Belushi, Tim Curry, Annie Golden.

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