The Pebble and the Penguin

1995

Action / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 5984 6K

Plot summary

A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who's partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient penguin ritual dictates that males present a pebble to their intended, then mate for life. Hubie finds a spiffy stone, but before he can bestow it on Marina, dastardly rival Drake tosses him into the churning sea, and Hubie gets swept away.

Director

Don Bluth Photo
Don Bluth

Top cast

Tim Curry Photo
Tim Curry as Drake
B.J. Ward Photo
B.J. Ward as Megellenic #1
S. Scott Bullock Photo
S. Scott Bullock as Chubby / Gentoo
Martin Short Photo
Martin Short as Hubie
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
681 MB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 2
1.37 GB
1920*1036
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 14 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lilmermaid_bella22 7 / 10

a good family fun movie

to all of you out their who have to pick apart every little itty bitty thing that isn't logical about this movie cut it out i mean 4 GODS SAKES ITS A KIDS MOVIE and for what it is its quite good !!! of course penguins don't wear hats but it builds up their characters i remember watchin this movie when i was 7 years old and I loved it its a simple story the little girls will love the romance and the little boys and probably the parents will love rocko its a cute film !! and for those people trying to act all high and mighty get a life Don Bluth always does a good job at making good wholesome family entertainment! so if you ever need something to entertain ur kids for 1 and 1/2 hours put the pebble and the penguin on !!! :D
Reviewed by Jijjin2004 7 / 10

Take some things off, tweak it, and it would've been okay...

Yeah I was a kid when this movie was out...at that time I thought it was good. Obviously now I'm older, but I decided to re-watch this movie due to complete boredom. This movie is obviously a kid's movie, and of course the adult interest is 0.1%. Was the plot good? Not really. it's about a penguin named Hubie who wants to marry another penguin named Marina, and it's explained before the movie about the pebble thing. Hubie finally makes contact with Marina, and Marina actually likes Hubie. Later Hubie wants a pebble to marry Marina, so he wishes for the best pebble, and he got what he wanted. This could've ended here, but then Drake, the stupid antagonist, decided he should separate Marina and Hubie to make the most pointless journey ever. But that's all I could tell you for the story. The animation is okay, the only problem is that overdid it with the gender thing. The singing has got to go, this literally made my ears bleed. But what can I say? this is a kid's movie! This is a good movie for kid's, not the whole family... especially not at this time period where pop culture evolved.
Reviewed by david_nys 7 / 10

It ain't no Disney, but it's pure nostalgia

I might only be 19, which isn't considered an age when one knows a lot of things about life. But young as I am, I already know what nostalgia is. And that might just be the word to describe this movie.I saw this movie more than 10 years ago, in my original language (which is dutch). After years of forgetting this movie, I saw it again, in English this time, but all memories of it came back nonetheless.First I should explain this story in short. It's about Hubie, a penguin who is in love with Marina, a beautiful female penguin. Problem is, he's very shy and he thinks the only way he even has a chance is to find her a nice pebble. Luckely for him, divine intervention delivers him one. But he has another problem in the form of the gigantic (buffed up with steroids probably) penguin named Drake, voiced by Tim Curry(!!). He wants Marina as well and he gets rid of Hubie. Now it's up to Hubie to get back home and rescue his girl. On the way, he gets to know Rocko, a rock hopper who is tough as nails but a real nice guy when you get to know him (just don't mention anything about flying).The movie is well animated, the backgrounds are nice and the colors are pretty. Alright, you can't compare it to the Disney classics, but then, what can be compared with those? The story is simple but it is interesting enough and the pacing is just right. Some songs are catchy, some are just OK, only Drake's song is awesome! The voice acting is great as well. Rocko sounds exactly as he should, marina's voice is lovely and Drake... well you can't go wrong with Tim Curry doing the voice acting can you? God I love that guy. Only problem is, Hubie sounds terrible. His voice in dutch was annoying but bearable. The English one is just terrible. Hubie is a adorable character though, even if so many don't like him. So is Rocko, just cause he is bad ass. And I wish we had seen more of Drake cause we just get to see him as he is bugging Marina, either through threats or singing. There are some awesome scenes, like on a ship called the "misery". Some call it disgusting, I call it brilliant. Or the scene in which Rocko discovers he has been lied to. Violent but very enjoyable to watch. There wasn't much that bothered me about this film that I haven't covered already, except for the ending. It is kind of sweet, but there are some things that are illogical and just annoying. You'll have to see for yourself.Overall, a great movie for little kids and adults alike, with solid animation and some great voice acting and songs but unfortunately some major setbacks. Still this is an hugely underestimated movie by an underestimated director, Don Bluth.
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