I saw the second Madagascar movie and it was alright, Enjoyable at least.
The show on the other hand, I don’t know. I love the penguins and the lemurs, but from the clips I saw, the animation looks terrible, and of course, the voices are different. But who knows? Maybe it’ll have good storylines to keep t alive for a while, otherwise it’ll fall flat.
-Kim
I am sorry but this film was awful.
I thought that the film would be as a good as the original but it was just awful, I just found it not very good and annoying at times.
To each their own opinion… I don’t mind.
Anyway, since I really liked this movie, I have been trying to get the script for it off of the following Awards site: paramountguilds.com/
It’s shortlisted for Best Original Screenplay, (practically everything seems to be shortlisted for screenplay at this point), so it should be there, but the link only showed up once, and is not working for me…
The Kung Fu Panda one works, as does The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button one. Just the other ones don’t.
Now for my question: Has anyone else been able to get it, and if so, could they provide a direct link to the download page that opens?
Thanks!
I actually LOVED it! Waay better than the first!
I like the idea of the Penguins and Julien TV show, TS2. Maybe they’d get their own spin-off after Md. 3 like Puss in Boots? 
That’s good to hear, nathan. Can’t wait to see it. 
Seeing that 24 hours have elapsed (or about there), and that I’m beginning a formal review, I think it’s safe to start a new post. You might want to prepare for my long review, and since I’m too lazy to add tags (and seeing it’s been out for release for a few months already), I’m going to just say that there’s SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
So I watched Madagascar 2 yesterday, and like most viewers on this board have been saying, it’s a pretty good effort from Dreamworks and is a better sequel to the previous film.
The background settings are lush and beautiful (definitely a step up from Bee Movie and Shark Tale aesthetics-wise, and probably as spectacular as Kung Fu Panda), and the characters are more well-developed this time round. The straight-to-the-point (characters endure painful physical violence, including the old lady “Nana” who gets pitched through a windscreen and brutally attacks lions), zany (much body contortions and disfiguring abound) and often ridiculous animation is reminiscent of old Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes cartoons, which made me laugh a few times.
Character-development wise, I kind of got the feeling they had to introduce a personal dilemma for each character, even if it’s forced (which reminded me of Ice Age 2). Marty’s ‘uniqueness’ problem, in particular, felt tacked on and just to create another conflict between him and Alex. There was no hint of Alex’s self-centeredness (I didn’t think he was that much of a “me” person), and Marty for some reason suddenly becomes insecure about his identity. This “manufactured drama” looks valid at first glance, but it feels like an afterthought because we never saw any foreshadowing of it (Perhaps if Alex did something selfish in the beginning and Marty tries to ‘follow’ the crowd of zebras to “fit in”, then this conflict would have made much more sense).
Melman and Gloria’s relationship felt much more developed on the other hand. Although Melman’s doctor role was never fully explored, as was Gloria’s brief crush with Motomoto, the tale of the giraffe’s unrequited love was one of the best aspects of the story. Again, it would have been better if Melman’s feelings have been better hinted at in the first movie instead of being rushed into the beginning of the second (although I haven’t watched the first for ages, so I don’t know whether they dropped any clues), and if Motomoto at least provided some resistance to Melman’s confession instead of quietly disappearing after the whirpool confrontation. But Melman’s heart-to-heart talk with King Julien in the quicksand, the whirpool “tangential” love confession, and the final revealing as he was carried away to the volcano to be sacrificed and Gloria’s rescue of him were heartwarming, sweet and as earnest as Wall-E’s courting of Eve.
Also, Alex’s reconnecting with his family and his proving that you don’t have to resolve disagreements by fighting should be commended too. The villain Makunga (who Dreamworks have again made him look like his voice actor, played with delicious relish by Alex Baldwin) is also appropriately scheming and conniving, and Will.I.Am delivers a smooth and charming performance as the ladies’ man Motomoto.
In the end though, it is the comic-relief penguins, lemurs and monkeys who stole the show with their one-liners and zany adventures. Mort gets less screen time in compensation for the old lady (who is starting to get annoying), but that’s a minor quibble when you have the talented Sacha and exasperated Cedric as the deluded King Julien and his advisor Maurice.
Overall, an above average effort from Dreamworks. If the scene transitions were smoother, the story more polished, and less characters battling for screentime (especially the one-joke Nana and Mort), this would have been a more impressive film. If I were to slot it into my animated films list of 2008, it’s be above Horton, but below KFP, Bolt and Wall-E. It’d probably make my top ten, though. 
Saw it last week and… it’s the worst movie from 2008 that I’ve seen. Even worse than the first one.
I LOVED Madagascar 1, which is probably why i was so dissapointed by the second one. It just wasnt as funny as the first one, for the exception of the penguins, i love them.
I will still buy this movie to add to my collection, but i thought it had more potential.