Mike and his wartime companions preparing for a fight in Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness (1985) - Toho-Tawa Animated cinema is "so hot right now", as a certain "Zoolander" baddie might put it.

Directors of some of of the year’s most notable animated features talk about the design and inspiration behind key characters including a sentient robot, expressive cat and villainous penguin. “Flow,” ...

What the world needs now is not another penguin movie, it would seem, following the animated "Happy Feet" and the documentary "March of the Penguins," both Oscar winners, as well as the spoof "Farce ...