Lots of chases, a plane crash, saucy animal scenes and more if you find the DVD in the yard sales. In consumerism of course safari. This year Madagascar came back with the Youtube show. Parent of a 6-year-old Written by ruddells November 28, The animals all have some negative stereotypes that push the wrong way. Adult Written by Rarityfan March 10, Mad about Madagascar The Madagascar movies are over, but the Madagacsar 2 memes lives on this year.
Some slapstick violence like with the old lady again. Good silly fun for a family watch on a boring Weekend.
Adult Written by JubileeJigsaw November 28, Psalm I really enjoyed seeing Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa! The movie is the reason why I am creative today. Alex really inspired me to just be myself and reminded me of Psalm What Zuba didn't understand, before the end of the film, was that God created his son just the way he was. Even though Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has some adult jokes, it teaches a valuable lesson about being fearfully and wonderfully made in God's eyes.
This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. Adult Written by January 28, Pretty Good This made me laugh more than the first one. It gets a little sketchy for kids because of a womanizing hippo. Parent of a year-old Written by Marvin Martian May 14, My opinion and review Well the film does have gross vilence like nipple twisting, and is sexual with flerting, and butts.
But to be honest I don't like this film much, really its just a copy a of Lion King. I prefer Lion King more to this. Parent of a 6-year-old Written by lsdbird September 3, Parent of a 8-year-old Written by Mr. Karl May 21, This title contains: Positive role models. Parent Written by lldent April 3, Great Family Movie My children enjoy this movie. They do all the dances and they love the story. There are some moments of scary parts for young children. Positive Messages.
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The saving grace for me - the madcap jungle banghra rave party! Repeated again as the end credits roll, but nothing at the end except for a hippo who thinks its a Tinkerbell.
StevePulaski 8 June It is pretty clear to even the most unaware film consumer that there are two different types of animation and they aren't hand drawn and CGI. They are Dreamworks and Pixar, one who makes cute, yet sort of flat animated pictures, and the other who makes essential animated films that are deep and very moving.
Madagascar falls in the latter category of being kind and positive in its spirits, but a tad too slapsticky to provide efficient and quality entertainment. It's a feast for the eyes, not the heart.
Yet there truly is nothing wrong with that. Our story takes place at the Central Park Zoo where Alex the lion voiced by Ben Stiller is guaranteed to put on a great show for his audience. He is boisterous, cocky, and determined to keep his high status with the people with his line of trinkets and accessories for sale there.
When Marty begins to hunger for life outside of the mundane four cage walls, he escapes to Grand Central Station, only to be followed by his three friends.
Once they're apprehended at the station they are taken, crated up, and shipped off to a Kenyan Wildlife preserve. It just so happens that four maniacal penguins escaped from the zoo as well, and take command on the ship hoping to cruise to Antarctica, and during all this camaraderie, the four crates with Alex, Marty, Gloria, and Melmen fall off the ship and are washed up onto Madagascar. That was a mouthful. The only one truly satisfied at this colossal misunderstanding is Marty, who is glad to be in the wild, where he can live free and become a new zebra.
The four wind up meeting a colony of furry little critters, all governed by King Julien Sacha Baron Cohen who sings the infectious anthem "I Like to Move It" twice in the entire picture. There is a lot of manic situations in Madagascar, a film that occupies a meager runtime of just seventy-nine minutes, yet in that time a conflict is introduced, characters rapidly appear, havoc occurs, a conclusion is tacked on, and boom, the credits roll.
Everything moves in such a rushed pace it's a wonder why the film can't take time to stop and catch its breath. It appears to run out of steam when the animals wash up on the island.
Now here is where we can definitely tell that there are two different animation classes in the mix. If this was a Pixar film, its star power wouldn't be used as a gimmick. Oh, Pixar uses celebrities in their pictures, but ever notice how they don't really boast them?
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen lend their voices in all three Toy Story pictures, but they're so natural and unobtrusive that they are never a distracting element. The problem with Madagascar is never do we feel that these characters are themselves. Another sign of the two animation teams among us is when we see an animated picture become too reliant on bathroom humor and contrived wittiness rather than sentimentality and storytelling.
Madagascar has a nice retro look to it, but that can't disguise its elementary storytelling and the thin effect it has on audience members. Kids will embrace it helpfully, and there parents will too seeing as many more viewings will become inevitable, but with such quality works out there such as Lilo and Stitch, Shrek, and Toy Story why waste time on the inessential?
I have to admit, I was sick of the over advertising, but I decided to give Madagascar a chance. Lately, I've actually been getting more into the computer animation flicks and wanted to see what Madagascar was all about. I don't get why there are a lot of users here on IMDb that absolutely hate this film or didn't really get into it, because I thought it was a very cute and enjoyable film for the kids and adults. Marty, Meldman, Alex, and Gloria are all zoo kept animals who are pampered all day and entertain humans on a constant schedule.
Marty wants more though, he wonders where he comes from and what it would be like to be in the wild. Alex, the lion, is truly against this and will have no part of it, but tries to find Marty after he escapes. The rest of the gang follows, but they are caught by the animal catchers and are sent back, but accidentally fall of the boat shipping them home and they end up on an island called Madagascar.
They are "welcomed", if that's the right word, by other animals and must learn how to survive, but it's going to be hard when Alex is starving for meat! There are more than a few good laughs in this film and I felt like it was being unfairly rated here on IMDb, yes, it's not as great as The Incredables, but I really feel like anyone could love this film.
I'm actually going to be on my way to buy it, I loved it that much, so please give this movie a fair chance. Believe me, it's worth your time. MovieAddict 11 July DreamWorks Animation division is not exactly the best when it comes to animated motion pictures - from their early days of CGI productions they have repeatedly tried to mimic the success of Pixar. Of course, sometimes it was entirely coincidental "Antz" was already gearing up for production when "A Bug's Life" was in its early stages - but there's no doubting that they have tried to replicate the adult-humor of features such as "Toy Story.
The edge of "Shrek" - and especially its pop-culture-reference-laden sequel - turned out to be entertaining and witty. But for every "Shrek" there's a "Shark Tale" still one of the most painful animated films I've ever had to sit through.
Stiller is a proud but timid lion, Rock is a curious zebra, Schwimmer is a hypochondriac giraffe who wears tissue boxes on his hooves a reference to Howard Hughes in his later life, of course , and Smith is a street-wise hippo. Marty the zebra dares to venture outside the zoo one day by escaping rather carelessly, and ends up getting himself and his pals transported to a new zoo after their journey through New York City scares a few people.
Marty just wants to see his home land, but soon they're being shipped in crates barely small enough to fit their bodies. However, due to a series of strange circumstances involving scheming penguins, the ocean liner's path is diverted and the four animals find themselves stranded on the island of Madagascar, where they are faced with a wild environment in which they must defend for themselves against other animals and a weird pack of natives who worship them as gods.
The movie's animation, as I mentioned above, is slipshod and amateurish. It looks as if Dreamworks had no care at all to spend time on the quality of their work here. The vocal talents are a bit self-conscious, too. Stiller - as much as I like him in regular comedies like "Starsky and Hutch" - is a bit too self-aware and I never felt like any of the characters were really characters - the entire time I just kept imagining Stiller and Rock in a studio recording their parts. Schwimmer and Smith both fail to leave an impression due to the restrictions of the script - Schwimmer's giraffe is just an ultra-nervous weirdo who's, quite frankly, rather annoying - and Smith doesn't really do much of anything except pop up now and again.
It's really Stiller and Rock who are the two main vocal talents here - their characters are given the most room to grow in the script - but they're just average at best.
Overall this really is just an "average" movie - it's not outstanding but it serves its purpose as amiable family entertainment. It doesn't contain the clever satirical wit of a Pixar film and neither does it appeal to adults and children equally in the same way most Pixar features do - but it's a lot, lot better than "Shark Tale.
Rainey-Dawn 23 October Madagascar is a very cute film about escapees from a zoo. They head out on an adventure of their lifetimes and learn what it is like to live life in the wild. The team of escapees are a bit "uptown" or domesticated in comparison to their wild distant relatives - which adds more to the humor. The movie is great from the start and kept me laughing throughout the film.
This is definitely a good family comedy. If you liked "Shrek" or "Ice Age" then it is a good chance that you may like Madagascar as well. There really aren't a lot of movies that can pull off the trick of entertaining both children and their parents, but "Madagascar" qualifies as one of them. This story of four Central Park Zoo animals Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo who get accidentally stranded in the wild is an absolute delight.
Marty, celebrating his 10th birthday at the zoo, dreams of life in the wild, whereas the other three are content with their spoiled existence as the centre of attention for the people who visit the zoo. All four get caught up in an outrageous scheme by the psychotic penguins to escape, and their adventure begins. They all discover that life in the wild has its ups and downs. The group are adopted by the local lemur community, led by the outrageous King Julian - as protectors against the "foosa" - who appear to be hyenas.
Things begin to go awry when Alex gets hungry and has very limited options to turn to to replace the steaks he loved in Central Park. It's a great deal of fun, offering some pokes at everything from "Wild Kingdom" to "Born Free" to "Planet of the Apes" and several others. A lot of the story I think is over the heads of younger children, who also likely wouldn't recognize most of the stars who offer their voices to the various characters, but that didn't seem to bother my four year old daughter, who found the whole thing hilarious all the way through.
Buddy 15 June In "Madagascar," four animals - a feisty hippo, a neurotic giraffe, an applause-addicted lion, and a freedom-yearning zebra - break out of their home in the Central Park Zoo, get crated up and shipped off to Kenya, and wind up stranded on the island of Madagascar. While there, they have to adapt to a whole new kind of life in the wild, learning their place in the natural order of things, which is something they've been shielded from all their lives.
This is a bright, colorful, amiable film with likable characters, first rate animation and fine vocal work from the likes of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith. The movie is at its best in the scenes set in Manhattan as the animals roam through the city streets causing terror and havoc as they go. However, once they arrive back in "the wild," the narrative begins to run out of steam, primarily because the writers have failed to come up with any compelling villain or foil for them to go up against.
There's fun to be had in watching Alex, the highly pampered and civilized lion, getting in touch with his long-dormant and suppressed predatory nature, but it isn't enough to make the film much more than a mild diversion.
Still, the movie doesn't completely shy away from some of the more brutal truths of nature, without, at the same time, becoming too frightening or disturbing for impressionable youngsters.
It's certainly a lovely movie to look at, and that makes it at least tolerable for adults - impressionable or otherwise - as well. The story of a group of animals from a zoo in New York who want to find the Wild. With the help or possibly in spite of some penguins, they manage to crash on Madagascar - the Wild.
It's not long before their natural instincts start to show themselves. Can a zebra and a lion coexist when one of them is hungry? Very hit or miss. Had the movie focused on the penguins, it might have been a winner. Is there a more annoying person on the planet who thinks he's funny than Stiller? I just don't get it.
I find him dull and unfunny. Chris Rock is okay, he just seems out of place in this kind of movie. An error has occured. Please try again. Create a list ». DreamWorks Animation.
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