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Arctic Tale

Director: Sarah Robertson, Adam Ravetch

Cast: Queen Latifah

(Paramount Vantage, 2007) Rated: G

US theatrical release date: 25 July 2007 (Limited release)

[25 July 2007]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

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Trying too hard to reinvent the penguin subgenre, Arctic Tale focuses its anthropomorphizing energies on girls instead of boys, on natural enemies instead of platoons of birds who all look alike.

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Tagged as: global warming | queen latifah | sarah robertson

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