hubie like stanely the troll from bluth a troll in central park lack the spark of personality to be the main character that carry an entire movie . be suppose to like him because he nice and but that about all he be . his character design be unappealing . the top of his head be a sort of dome that be narrow than the pudgy bottom half of his head . and penguin should not have teeth . i know that iago the parrot in aladdin have teeth and but maybe that work because it make him look more like his voice actor and gilbert gottfried . hubie and with his weenie little voice ( provide by martin short ) and look funny with that big set of chompers in his beak . tim curry and who be usually delightful at be evil and do some sort of dippy surfer dude accent a the villain ( might have be a good voice for a comic relief accomplice and not the supposedly menace main villain ) . the entire plot revolves around the hero and villain love for female penguin marina and who be just as dull a both of her suitor . bad of all be the pacing . we keep cut back to the villain to watch him threaten marina some more this time in dialogue and this time in song . barry manilow may be a great songwriter and but in animated film like this and thumbelina and his song feel limp and listless especially the ballad . the only song i like be the 1930 ish good ship misery song . i read that the distributor make some cut in this film against the filmmaker wish and and that could have cause some of the problem though i suspect the real problem be that they do not cut the rest of it while ) .