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Madagascar (Widescreen Edition) by Tom McGrath (VII)
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DVD detailsActor: Cedric the Entertainer, Cody Cameron, David Cowgill, Sacha Baron Cohen, Stephen Apostolina Director: Tom McGrath (VII) Brand: Paramount Primary Contributor: Pinkett Smith, Jada Primary Contributor: Rock, Chris Primary Contributor: Schwimmer, David DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 86 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Dreamworks Animated
DVD Reviews of Madagascar (Widescreen Edition)DVD Review: Animals Leave Babylon (NYC) for Madagascar: Another Speilberg Holocaust Movie? Summary: 1 StarsHitler's original "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem" was to send the Jews to Madagascar, which I think would have been a better place than Palestine.
This movie takes animals from the heart of Babylon (a city of commerce & confusion) on a journey similar to the transports of Jews to the concentration camps.
I liked the party animals in Magagascar the best (love to party with 'em, liked the music). Unfortunately, the party is crashed by meat eating cat-like creatures.
The only animal that I really liked was the psychedelic zebra. The hippo has a lovely voice, without a body to match. The psychedelic trips the lion took was cool too.
Yet, the animals, like Jews escaping slavery with Moses long for the fleshpots of NYC.
Loved the animation, laughed a few times but found the movie scary!
DVD Review: Fabulous Fun Summary: 5 StarsThis is simply a fabulous movie, for one and all. I'm over 60 and I loved it, can't wait for Madagascar 2.
DVD Review: Another must own!!!! Summary: 5 StarsI'm slowly collecting all the animated movies which we already own on Dvd and am updating them all to Blu-ray as they come out, and Madagasca is just another one of those must own movies. I can't wait for the next one to come out on Blu-ray also.
DVD Review: Madagascar is a great movie for the whole family. Summary: 4 StarsWe bought the movie for a trip to visit family and thoroughly enjoyed it. Even my mother watched it with us. I would have given five stars but the DVD version does not include a cartoon short feature with the penguins as we had hoped.
DVD Review: Still Waiting for the Laughs to Start Summary: 2 StarsMarty the Zebra (Chris Rock) is having a midlife crisis. He's tired of life in the Central Park Zoo and wants to see what life is like in the wild. When he escapes, his three friends try to chase him down and bring him back. And while Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) do catch up with him, it doesn't turn out quite as planned. Instead, all four of them find themselves headed to Africa. Will they survive when they get there?
I normally steer clear of Dreamworks Animation movies because I find them pale imitations of the Disney Pixar films they are attempting to rip off. But the previews for the sequel looked so entertaining, I had to give this one a try. I should have stayed away.
Yes, there are a few amusing moments. I laughed at several of the movie spoofs. But that was about it. The story was boring. The characters had so much potential. Instead, they went with the easy joke (read bathroom humor) and didn't play out the jokes the premise could have set up. As many have said, the group of commando penguins are the funniest things in the film, but they don't have nearly enough screen time to make much difference.
Then there's the issue of voice casting. Yes, most of the cast did fine. But I couldn't get Ross from Friends out of my head whenever Melman had a line. Trust me, that was very distracting.
Many have dismissed Disney's The Wild as a rip off of this film. That's a shame because, for my money, it is the far superior film. Stay away from this one and get a copy of that film. Instead of staring at the TV screen, you'll be laughing from start to finish.
Description of Madagascar (Widescreen Edition)At new yorks central park zoo a lion a zebra a giraffe & a hippo are best friends & stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage the other 3 break free to look for him only to find themselves reunited .. On a ship en route to africa. They will learn what life in the wild is like. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Ben Stiller Jada Pinkett Smith Run time: 86 minutes Rating: Pg 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
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