The Adventures of Scamper the Penguin
Seen it?1987 | 78 min | Adventure, Animation, Family
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With soft box office and little lasting buzz, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- If you count yourself among adventure lovers and families, this one's for you. A good one for when you want to be swept off somewhere else.
- The mood
- Feel-good.
- The pace
- Lively and easy to follow, at 1 hr 18 min. Done before bedtime.
- What might put you off
- No age rating on record, so check it first for young kids.
- It's in Russian, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Skip it if you can't get past animation (your loss).
Scamper is a little penguin who loves wandering around the Artic where he lives with his parents. Unfortunately his little adventures tend to get he, and his friend Snowflake into trouble, especially when he disobeys his father and goes exploring with seagulls who want to eat him flying above, and men and dogs on the ground with them. One day the adventure goes too far and they float out to sea, only to be caught by men who want to sell them to the zoo. Scamper, Snowflake and their new friend, a macaroni penguin named Louie, must escape and get back to their families to warn them.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 20K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Gennadiy Sokolskiy, Kenjiro Yoshida
- Aleksey BatalovNarrator (voice)
- Svetlana StepchenkoLolo (voice)
- Lyudmila GnilovaPepe / Nini (voice)
- Vyacheslav NevinnyyGrandfather Pigo (voice)
- Rolan BykovToto (voice)
- Yelena SanayevaLala (voice)
- Evgeni LeonovJack (voice)
- Natalya ChenchikMac (voice)
- Nikolay GrabbePolar Explorer (voice)
- Vladimir FerapontovPoacher (voice)