Madagascar
I worshipped the ground the Shrek walked on and I laughed along with the aquatic antics of Nemo and his paraniod dad, but I must admit that we have a new CGI movie winner.
Madagascar was, in my opinion a brilliant example of how versatile CGI movies are. The satirical humor and shameless ripping off of other movies was brilliantly achieved. The voices of Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett-Smith couldn’t have been better casted. David Schwimmer could have had more dialogue – I found myself wishing he’d speak more because every comment out of his mouth, or rather, out of the giraffe’s mouth was fantastically witty and got a laugh everytime.
The token mascots, in this case the Penguins, did a good job throughout the movie in providing comic relief to an already side splitting movie.
The Plot: Chris Rock’s character gets it into his head (by the penguins) to go and enjoy the wild. He breaks out and his friends, when the realize he’s gone, chase after him and get themselves all banished to the wild. En route however, the penguins’ antics result in the 4 friends ending up on the island of Madagascar. However the wild has unexpected effect on Ben Stiller (the lion).
Look out for, “American Beauty” and “Chariots of Fire”
See it, it’ll make sense.
