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intereact!Director: Tom McGrath (VII)
Actors: Stephen Apostolina, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cody Cameron, Cedric the Entertainer, and David Cowgill
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $19.99
Release Date: 2005-11-15
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-05-27
Studio: Dreamworks Animated
Run Time: 86 minutes
Format: Array
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Discs: 1
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com
The penguins steal the show. In the sprightly Madagascar, a mid-life crisis inspires Marty the Zebra (voiced by Chris Rock) to escape from his lifelong home, a New York zoo. His equally pampered friends--Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer)--then escape to bring him back. Unfortunately, their attempt at damage control persuades zoo officials that the animals are unhappy, so all four get shipped to an animal preserve in Kenya...only a squad of maniacal penguins change the destination to Antarctica. The quartet end up on an island where, in addition to meeting some hedonistic lemurs, they learn about the food chain--and that Alex is a different link on the chain from the other three. Madagascar doesn't achieve the snappy perfection of a Pixar movie, but it tops most other computer-animated efforts; the collision of friendship and predator instincts makes for an unusually gripping conflict. The vocal performances of the central characters is serviceable, but Sacha Baron Cohen (Da Ali G Show) provides topnotch lunacy as the lemur king, and the penguins--voiced mostly by the animators themselves--are the best thing in the movie. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5
1) Hugely Under Rated [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is a wonderful movie. Our almost three-year-old daughter loves it. She is a big fan of Alex and Marty. And we adults are totally impressed too. There are so many funny details, so many funny minor characters like the trash-scavenging, newspaper-reading, British accented chimpanzees, the penguins, very funny Sascha Baron Cohen lending the voice for the king of lemurs. The music is great. Our daughter watches it at least twice everyday (other parents wrote about its appeal to kids, and I totally understand that) and is still not tired of it.2) Madagascar DVD [Rating: 5 out of 5]
A classic and enjoyable animated movie that you can watch several times without seeing to be repetitious. Great graphics.3) Disappointed [Rating: 1 out of 5]
MOvie stops after about 15 minutes and will not continue. I have tried on three different DVD players and it has a flaw in it4) Good for the entire family [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Enjoyable for the whole family. Kids love the music, characters are funny and there is a moral to the story (some educational value here).5) Bland amusement [Rating: 2 out of 5]
OK, it's a fair story. There are lots of good-buddy moments, where friends do all they can to keep their friends happy, and even a sermonette about loving the people who matter even when they're very hard to love. There are wild personalities, inane hijinx and cute cuddly animals. You know, the usual.There are kids' movies that that reach out to the grownups too. Then there are kids' movies just for the kids, and maybe not for the brightest among them. This bit of fluff is one of the latter, unfortunately. There's nothing actually wrong with it - but there's nothing memorably right about it, either.-- wiredweird