Madagascar
What a fun movie!
The animation is wonderful..the dialog has jokes for "us" and jokes for the kids.
It was well worth waiting for. I particularly enjoy a bit of homage to "Planet of the Apes". As an attempt to escape, Alex the Lion builds a bonfire that happens to be in the image of Gloria the hippo, in effegy of the Statue of Liberty. When the whole thing goes up in flames at the wrong time, and fails to be a beacon for his salvation, he lies face down in the sand, in despair over losing his cushy home in the Central Park Zoo, screams "Darn you! Darn you all to heck!". Charlton Heston would have loved it.
The penguins serve as a greek chorus, showing up when a moment of silly distraction is needed.
The lemurs are funny. As three vegetarians and a carnivore try to adapt to life on Madagasgar, and as the lion's true nature begins to surface, all the other animals become steaks with legs! How can the lion go against his nature and live with these vegetarians?
The voice characterations are good. David Schwimmer reprises his neurotic character from Friends in the form of Melman the hypocondriac giraffe. Ben Stiller is great as Alex the lion. Chris Rock is priceless as Marty the Zebra, and Jada Pinket Smith is great as Gloria. The only problem with Gloria is that her dialog often gets lost under primary dialog. The dialog could have been timed better to allow for the meaning to pass through. Now Julien King of the Lemurs, this is probably the only thing I did not care for in terms of voice casting. First of all, Sacha Baron Cohen (Da Ali Gee) who is this guy and why is he a celeb? He seems to be in the same category as "Moby" since when is a DJ a celebrity? But personal biases aside, the characterizatin of Julien initially had me thinking "is this Robin Williams?". Alas no, and my feeling is that if it HAD been Robin Williams, the character would have worked. There was something just missing about Julien. Never quite made it for me.
The Penguins are my personal favorites..does this surprise you? Its a fun/scary thought to imagine penguins being able to take over a cargo ship and sail it to Antartica.
There is alot of background action worth seeing in this film, my plan is to see it again, probably on pay per view so I can record it on my dish ddr.
over all, in spite of it all, I liked this movie alot.
till next time
Penny
The animation is wonderful..the dialog has jokes for "us" and jokes for the kids.
It was well worth waiting for. I particularly enjoy a bit of homage to "Planet of the Apes". As an attempt to escape, Alex the Lion builds a bonfire that happens to be in the image of Gloria the hippo, in effegy of the Statue of Liberty. When the whole thing goes up in flames at the wrong time, and fails to be a beacon for his salvation, he lies face down in the sand, in despair over losing his cushy home in the Central Park Zoo, screams "Darn you! Darn you all to heck!". Charlton Heston would have loved it.
The penguins serve as a greek chorus, showing up when a moment of silly distraction is needed.
The lemurs are funny. As three vegetarians and a carnivore try to adapt to life on Madagasgar, and as the lion's true nature begins to surface, all the other animals become steaks with legs! How can the lion go against his nature and live with these vegetarians?
The voice characterations are good. David Schwimmer reprises his neurotic character from Friends in the form of Melman the hypocondriac giraffe. Ben Stiller is great as Alex the lion. Chris Rock is priceless as Marty the Zebra, and Jada Pinket Smith is great as Gloria. The only problem with Gloria is that her dialog often gets lost under primary dialog. The dialog could have been timed better to allow for the meaning to pass through. Now Julien King of the Lemurs, this is probably the only thing I did not care for in terms of voice casting. First of all, Sacha Baron Cohen (Da Ali Gee) who is this guy and why is he a celeb? He seems to be in the same category as "Moby" since when is a DJ a celebrity? But personal biases aside, the characterizatin of Julien initially had me thinking "is this Robin Williams?". Alas no, and my feeling is that if it HAD been Robin Williams, the character would have worked. There was something just missing about Julien. Never quite made it for me.
The Penguins are my personal favorites..does this surprise you? Its a fun/scary thought to imagine penguins being able to take over a cargo ship and sail it to Antartica.
There is alot of background action worth seeing in this film, my plan is to see it again, probably on pay per view so I can record it on my dish ddr.
over all, in spite of it all, I liked this movie alot.
till next time
Penny
posted by iCare at
10:10 AM
1 Comments:
I saw Madagascar, and I was disappointed. I didn't think it had a good story line and thought it was predicable. Most animations are made for kids but adults can find humor in it too. This one seem to me to be one dimensional. I can tell whether I enjoyed a movie or not on whether I would see a second or third time. No, not this time. Once was enough.
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