Madagascar (2005)
Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends—Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo—have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape—with the help of some prodigious penguins—to explore the world.
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Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
I really enjoyed the film! It's great for watching it with the whole family.
I remember seeing this in the theatres when I was 6 years old with a friend of mine from elementary school and loved it. Thirteen years later, I still love it and has become one of my favorite animated movies. Dream Works always does an awesome job on their movies although Disney is my "go to" for animation. Speaking of Disney, they released a similar film called The Wild I think two years after but I still think Madagascar is the best.
Dreamworks started to fall really early into their lifespan, huh? They started off brilliantly with the likes of Shrek, Prince Of Egypt and Antz, but started to fall into mediocrity somewhere around 2005 after Madagascar. This movie does have good animation for 2005 and some of the jokes do hit and they do have a decent cast, but the rest of the movie? A bunch of pop culture references that have to be censored with the words "darn" and "heck" because of it's age rating that end up making them fall flat, King Julien is the worst thing to ever be created besides Minions, sometimes it just makes me feel uncomfortable and there a lot of things that are just plain off. Nothing much to say about it really, it's just an average kids flick that MIGHT entertain you at some points.
Family fun with some great characters and personalities.