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Mood:
- Feel GoodHumorous
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Plot:
- BuddiesRescueFriendshipFish Out of WaterAnimal lifeDangerEscapadesFriends more...
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Genres:
- AdventureAnimationComedyFamilyHollywood Tone
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- AfricaIslandJungleWilderness
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbuster
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Humor:
- Grossout HumorVerbal ByplaySilly Humor
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Style:
- All Star Cast
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- Computer Animated
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Madagascar, 2005
English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French
USA
Profile of Madagascar
The mood of Madagascar is feel good and humorous. The plot centers around animal life, a "fish out of water", and a rescue. It features verbal byplay and grossout humor. Madagascar is a comedy, adventure, and family movie. Stylistically, it has a Hollywood tone and features an all-star cast. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. Madagascar takes place, at least partly, in a jungle, in the wilderness, and on an island. The setting is Africa. It happens in contemporary times. Visually, Madagascar is computer animated. The movie is known for being a blockbuster and an award winner. It is especially suggested for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Madagascar
The friendship between a New York City lion and zebra is tested when fate brings them out to the unforgiving wilderness in this computer-animated DreamWorks feature. Chris Rock does the voice of Marty the Zebra, whose longing to explore beyond his cushy Central Park Zoo boundaries is the impetus that ultimately strands him and his pals on the shores of savage Madagascar. Marty loves the new, edible scenery, but his best friend Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller) the Lion begins to starve since his diet of thick steaks has been cut off, and the rump of his friend starts to look mighty tasty. Their other friends, a hypochondriac giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a sassy hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), try their best to think of a solution as the call of the wild slowly turns the starving Alex into Marty's worst nightmare. Meanwhile the hilariously self-aggrandizing King of the Ocelots (Sacha Cohen) has a plan to use Marty to repel their own carnivore problem. This kid-oriented comedy stays adult-friendly every step of the way thanks to a clever script that mixes New Yorker humor and even some existentialism in with the pratfalls and spit-takes. Jolts of comedic brilliance are supplied by some Arctic-bound escaped con penguins, and a couple of literary apes. It's not a musical, but classic songs from the likes of Louis Armstrong and Sammy Davis Jr. keep the montages flowing loose and sassy.
Details
| Language: | English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 27 May 2005 |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Mick LaSalle
USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
Users Reviews
- 20.August.2008
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- by: mathilda
- mathilda rated this movie7/10Good
- 15.August.2008
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- by: rose
- rose rated this movie7/10Good
