Cinematic cephalopod

A children's movie titled Lost and Found is out; it features a little boy and a penguin. Bleh, you say, penguins are so trite…there is nothing compelling in that. However, there is a scene in which the two protagonists are rescued by a friendly cephalopod.

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I must endorse this excellent attempt to beguile young children into trusting giant tentacled entities — it will serve us well when the Old Ones come.

(via Sarah Ditum)

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tags: Icadyptes salasi, giant penguin, ornit
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A lot of zoos have very neat murals and other works of art. Over the weekend we visited Marwell here in Hampshire: it's our 'local' zoo and we go there a lot. I really like the 'march of the penguins' feature they have on the outside of the penguin pool.
Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.

I for one welcome our Old tentacled overlords.

By YourHeadASplode (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Where's the "MWUAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!"?

Reference to Japanese tentacle porn in 4.. 3... 2...

By HidariMak (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

HidariMak, I was thinking something like that after I read, "...beguile young children into trusting giant tentacled entities..." Eh... Japan.

There may be cephalopods in that movie, but are there narwahls?

By 'Tis Himself (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Ia! Ia! Cthulu fthangn! IA!!!

Haven't seen you here recently, Cuttlefish, was beginning to worry about you! (I just ordered one of your lovely tshirts...)

By recovering catholic (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Cuttlefish has shirts?! Why am I sitting here in my ginch when I could be adorned in cephalopic metered rhymes?

This was on TV in the UK over christmas, and it's lovely - it's based on a book by Irish children's author Oliver Jeffers, who writes and illustrates truly delightful kids' stories.

Fuck, Brownian. had to google "ginch" and now...the mental image...ew

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Cuttlefish has shirts?!

Just under the header picture right side is a link to CafePress. Shirts and coffee mugs with the Cuttlefish logo.

By Nerd of Redhead, OM (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

ENOUGH WITH THE PENGUINS!!!!

Why couldn't it just be a movie about a boy and an octopus?

By Mark Borok (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Remember, the cephalopod in the Harry Potter series is a friendly one. And it saved a kid's life!

Should we really be eating them?

By maddogdelta (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Cthulhu
Squeeze me.

Fuck, Brownian. had to google "ginch" and now...the mental image...ew

Oh, it's sure easy to complain Sven, but can you suggest any cephalopod-themed trouser manufacturers? I thought not.

Hmm. Looks like the temperature's dropping.

Amazing pic!

Pity I can't stop thinking of The Kraken Wakes, but WTF :-)

If cephalopods are so darn smart why would they rescue us beyond the obvious soylent green application? And as far as eating them; fried squid at the Denver Greek Fair every June mmmmm. (at the orthodox church just east of Leetsdale on Alameda.)

By the pro from dover (not verified) on 22 Mar 2009 #permalink

Is it true that penguin tastes like vulture?

That's a much more fair and balanced representation of our tentacled Overlords.
I'm so sick of these liberals and their biased depictions of the Great Ones as slavering monsters.

Laugh. For man kind's sake, laugh less the Elder Ones take notice... A very cute and affectionate cephalopod, though.

Who told you about the Old Ones? There's no such thing, just keep going about you business...

(IA it's hard to type with tentacles, oh crap, stop typing lackey, backspace backspace, no that's enter

I watched this over Christmas. It's a lovely story and beautifully made. The animation is simply gorgeous.