Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 14, 2005 | | Summary | Had enough talking animals with dumb plots movies. | Content
 | This movie is about four animals that live in the zoo
And one of them Marty(Chris Rock)Really want too
go and live in the wild.He gets his wish after
Escaping and some other things and him and his friends
Melman,Gloria, and the lion (cant remember his name)
Get Shipped off to Madagascar.I found it rather
boring I guess I'm just getting too old for these
animated talking animals movies But it was funny
in parts I really liked the part when the lion
said Shut up Spalding!
I also reccomend Ice age. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 13, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful Images, Poor Story, and Scene-Stealing Penguins (Who Should Deserve a Sequel of Their Own) | Content
| One great thing about "Madagascar" is its computer graffic images by Dreamworks (to be precise, PDI/Dreamworks). The colors are delightful to see, and the movement of the characters are very natural (and rightly exaggerated when they need to provide laughs). The voice talents by Ben Stiller, Jada Pinckett Smith, Chris Rock, and David Schwimmer are reasonably engaging.
OK, I said good things first, because there are as many bad things in the film. The film's weak script (by four writers) has no reasonable story at all. We see a lion, a hippo, a giraffe, and a zebra, all spoiled in a comfy life in a well-managed, amusement-park-type zoo at Central Park, New York City, living like celebrities. And ... that's all. What's funny about it?
In fact, that's the first act, followed by the second one, in which they are sent to Madagascar (an island off the coast of Africa). And? Nothing special, except for some manic turns from the group of lemur (and its king). And very, very poor ending as if someone has forgoten that a film needs what we call ending. (And what happened to the two monkeys that should be still on the ship?)
[BEST PRIZE -- THE PENGUINS] The cliched buddy-buddy relations between Rock's fast-talking zebra and Stiller's lion is totally overshadowed by another truly fantastic cretures, four military-commando-like penguins, WHO SHOULD BE THE MAIN CHARACTERS of the film. They are really funny, and more importantly, they know what they are doing while the other four animals are just meandering in the all-too-familiar episodes. If Dreamworks should think of the sequel (and probably they are doing right now after watching the staggering commercial success of the film), make the penguins the hero of the film. And don't forget to include equally funny King of Lemur Julien by Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G.
Without duobt, younger audiences find the film funny for it is full of slapstick jokes, and adults may be amused by some of the parodies (of 'Cast Away' 'Planet of the Apes' and many others). But if we talk about the characters and story, we know 'Madagascar' proves that Hollywood needs filmmakers who take animated films more seriously, and can make a feature film of animation without using recycled music numbers, repeated (too obvious) parodies, and a cliched story. And you know where you can find those people -- in Pixar. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | Just not funny | Content
| The problem with this film is a problem with alot of the movie comedies that come out nowadays. It is just not funny. It's not that the jokes are flat, it's just that there are no jokes. Ben Stiller is annoying as the lion, and Chris Rock just doesn't have much to do as the zebra, Marty. David Schimmer is in close competition with Ben Stiller as most annoying animated animal ever. Jada Pinkett Smith is fine, but her character is really just an afterthought. As a matter of fact, the whole movie is. The writers must have thought of the concept about zoo animals returning to the wild and missing the luxuries of their former, caged environments, and thought they had a humdinger, because they didn't put much more thought into it than that. The whole plot doesn't even really get started until near the end when Alex realizs in the wild that he'd rather eat Marty the Zebra than talk to him. All of this would have seemed more charming if it weren't so lamely done. My daughter, I should mention, loved it, and the animation was good. But my daughter smiled the whole way through, though, like me, she never laughed. Better than the awful Shark tale, but nowhere near the level of the Shrek movies or Pixar. A disappointment. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 11, 2005 | | Summary | Really Great Movie | Content
| I went to go see this movie with friends - and absolutley loved it. It was extremley funny - I went back to go see it two more times! I especially loved the Lemur King! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 06, 2005 | | Summary | All Hail The New York Giants!! | Content
| omigod, this film totally kicked butt!! i loved king julien ( i actually fell in luv with him <3) my whole family enjoyed the film!!! every 1 should c it!! |
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