Customer Reviews
| 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!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 30, 2005 | | Summary | Going wild with "Madagascar" | Content
| A long time ago, y'know, in the `90's, computer-animated films were amazing spectacles. The technical wizardry involved in making these movies was almost as much incentive to see the film as a good storyline. Sadly, these days audiences have, as usual, become jaded, and no longer care about the fact that these films are being made with what is still, technically, a revolutionary new filmmaking technique.
I still have a soft spot for computer-animated features, mainly of the Pixar variety. It is my personal opinion that "Shrek" isn't nearly as great as everyone thinks it is. It, and DreamWorks' last feature "Shark Tale" rely so heavily on pop culture references that they seem pretty lame a few years down the road. (It's true! Watch the original "Shrek" and see if you really think any of those `90's pop references are still cool.)
However, DreamWorks may be working its way toward Pixar territory with its latest film, "Madagascar". Rather than being a pop culture hit parade, this film has strong characters with (relatively) complicated relationships providing the humor and drama.
Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), a lion who is a popular attraction at the New York Zoo, is living it up in the lap of civilized luxury. Free steaks, an adoring public, and a warm place to sleep at night, what more could you want? His zebra friend Marty (Chris Rock), however, dreams of going to The Wilds, like it's an actual place rather than an idea. When Marty makes a break for it, Alex enlists the help of his other friends, Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), a motherly-but-tough hippo, and Melman (David Schwimmer), a neurotic hypochondriac of a giraffe, to track the runaway zebra down. After being recaptured by humans, the foursome are sent off on a cargo ship to Africa to be returned to the wild. But a sneak attack by some commando penguins (too complicated to explain; trust me, it's funny) ends up stranding them all on the island of Madagascar. The blame game goes around, and sure enough, tensions mount in this wild paradise.
What makes "Madagascar" stand out from the other DreamWorks pictures is that rather than being a pop culture smoothie, this film has humor coming from funny situations and funny characters. And with charming secondary characters, like a band of party-loving lemurs and the aforementioned commando penguins, there are plenty of humorous characters to go around. Don't get me wrong, there are still some allusions strewn about, but they don't take the forefront this time.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this film, for me anyway, was that rather than go hyper-realistic (such as in "Shrek 2"), the computer animation had a, well, animated look. Like Pixar's "The Incredibles", just because they could make photorealistic people and animals, they didn't necessarily have to.
A final word of warning: Learn from my mistake; don't go to the first matinee showing on Saturday unless you like movie theaters filled with loud, rambunctious and whiny children with few adults in sight!
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| Rating | | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | People you need to give this movie a fair chance | Content
| Hi,
watched this movie and loved it. I am surprised at quite some people beating it down black and blue with things like boring...cliche...tasteless....no morals...and then comparing with the pixar movies. Some of the reviews to be frank appeared absolutely biased at glorifying the pixar movies. No doubt the pixar movies are true to their glory status and they are in a league of their own. But that is no reason to undermine this movie because it doesnt claim to be better or worse than pixar movies. Story is life of a movie and Madagascar's storyline isnt the strongest but still has few good moments for you to take home and treasure for a while. Sure there are lot of plots/dialogues taken from other movies and I dont see how that makes Madagascar oh so cliched....even movies like Finding Nemo and Incredibles had few such things. Infact a movie about superheroes (Incredibles) itself is totally cliched but it was the story and turn of events that gave a wonderful impression to the viewer. Most people agree that Incredibles wasnt as good as Nemo. Does that mean Incredibles was a waste. All said and done, its individual preferences and feelings towards a movie that make the final impression about it. But hey this is a movie...a comedy...animated one...just go out there and watch it, enjoy. And if u start looking for morals in every movie then why not see a shrink....he will have lots of morals to preach. I am not advocating in favor of Madagascar/dreamworks or start a duel between pixar and dreamworks.....but maybe its a lil harsh to totally bash a movie of this variety. In addition to that these reviews might mislead the readers. A lot goes into an animated film(i think it took around 4 years for madagascar). The kind of animation that you get to see in Madagascar has not been done before. The snappy movements and expressions are akin to traditional 2D animation, its completely a different style in 3D and has appealed to a lot of people. But then again go check for yourselves, have fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | MADAGASCAR IS COMING...... | Content
| TO DVD ON SEPTEMBER 27,2005.I WENT TO SEE THIS a COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.THIS MOVIE IS HIP AND FUNNY I WILL BUY THIS THE FIST DAY THIS TEXT --- REFERS TO THE DVD EDITION.
i can't wait for over the hedge to come out.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | CUTE | Content
| This is such a cute movie! I recently went with my sister and neice to see, and got quite a kick out of it! I especially loved the parts with the giraffe. If you have kids, or neices and nephews, little cousins, etc, definitely take them to see this movie! You'll enjoy it too! |
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