The penguins are a spoof of some famous character or
movie. I just can’t place my finger on what it is called.
TSS : James Bond perhaps ?
the penguins are cute . And i love how they made the sushi at the end .
Jack Black will star in Madagascar 2 
Really? I didn’t know that. What part will he play?
He will play Farley the Fossa.
The title of has been changed to Madagascar 2: The Lost
Island.
Bill - Yay – a Fossa actually talks in a conversational mode! (snigger)
I
absolutely love the design of those particular characters, although I don’t know if Jack Black is suitable
enough to play the part of one of those fuzzballs. Oh well, he’s a funny guy so we’ll see what
happens!
Thanks for the information, Bill!
Mitch - He played Zeke the Saber Toothed Tiger in the first Ice
Age, so he is most likely suitable.
Bill - Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well, I guess it’ll work then. 
That sounds like a very intresting role. But I wonder. What is a fossa? I
want to know what this creature looks like so I can see Jack Black as that animal.
The Star Swordsman - This is a fossa:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossa_%28animal%29
Cute little things, aren’t they? The animators of
Madagascar really “jazzed” up their overall features to make them look
more cartoony, that’s for sure. But I like it.
Oh, so he is like a mongoose.
Does anyone know if he is going to be a protagonist or an antagonist?
WOW!! I guess Im alone on this, but I hated it. HATED IT!!! It was utter
garbage.
DreamWorks set the bar awfully low with Shark Tale, but like a limbo champion it slips lower
still with Madagascar,which mistakes obnoxiousness for comedy and celebrity voices for characters.
While
Pixar films keep getting better, the ones from DreamWorks keep getting worse.
The script has been slapped
together so shoddily the writers forgot to add a story to their setup. The pacing is all over the place. There is
no flow to the story, all it is is joke after joke. There is no cohesive story flow. It’s just a joke-heavy,
unstructured screenplay.
Rather than develop any original ideas, the filmmakers fall back on DreamWorks
Animation’s specialty, which is also the laziest type of comedy writing: They insert theme songs from other
movies or TV shows and hope the audience laughs at the recognition of somebody else’s works. There was an over
use of pop songs and pop referances.
“Madagascar” must set the record for most music borrowed
from other sources. It opens with the theme to “Born Free” and runs through songs from "Saturday
Night Fever," “Rushmore,” “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” "Hawaii
Five-O," “Chariots of Fire,” “American Beauty” and "National Geographic
Presents". I feel sorry for poor Hans Zimmer whose score was practically non existant. This is one of my pet
Peeves about some animated films today. The fact that they fill their movies with wall to wall contemperary songs
that there is no room for a propper theme driven and orchestral musical score. This is basically an insult to the
composer, a spit in the face. all of Dreamwork’s CGI films have done this.
Of the featured stars, only
Pinkett Smith demonstrates a facility for voicing a cartoon character. Schwimmer recycles Ross, and Stiller’s
voice is bland. Rock is a disaster, screeching every line of dialogue at the same volume and pitch.
This
film is so in love with its own mediocrity it’s not even funny. it’s just bad folks. it’s a soulless,
ill-conceived, reference-laden, free-for-all. It’s funny only for the sake of being funny, none of the jokes
serve the over all story.
I hated this film on soooo many levels.
SUPERHERO55 - You know what, the funny thing is that you’re
absolutely right…
The film’s story really
doesn’t have any level base to it, and switches from one character to the next and back again as if dealing out
random cards from a deck. I remember my mom stating that the plot centered on Marty at first before switching
over to Alex’s point of view in the middle of the film. Not a good story technique…
I really don’t
mind the voices they chose for each character; as a matter of fact, I think they were perfectly laid out,
especially Sacha Baron Cohen as the wise-cracking lemur, King Julien. I suppose Chris Rock could have been a
little less “screachy” on the tones, but it didn’t really affect my viewing pleasure. I know you’re
not alone on this thought, however; I’ve heard other people complain (or, at least, state that they’re not too
fond of) about Chris Rock’s role as Marty.
And what was the moral of the story, anyway? Don’t tell a
bad story?
(snigger)
The animation was the highlight of Madagascar, but as
I’ve said previously, the storyline…Well, rather, what storyline? The plot just jumps around all over the
place.
Puh-ha.
Yeah, exactly. There is no plot to speak of, 'cept for the fact that Marty desperately wants to go to the wild.
And when he finally does get his wish…the story flops all over the place…
But yeah – the animation
was absolutely fantastic. I could have sworn that was real beach water…
Man, I’m not even going to touch the animation. Ugh.
Above everything,
this film tried to be funny… too bad it didn’t succeed. The jokes were simply terrible. "Darn you all to
heck"??! That sounded so stupid! You either say the line properly or you don’t… don’t bother trying to
SQUEEZE a quote like that into a PG film… it’s simply dumb. The Vangelis slow-motion thing was also redundant…
therefore unoriginal. Sorry people, I didn’t find anything good this film.
Well Aggie agrees with me.
I
thought Madagascar had a pretty strong start, up until they actually left the zoo – but beyond a couple of
interesting concepts it all fell apart in the middle and end. Sigh.
Oooh, I just read your post, SPACEHERO55. I agree with everything you said,
heh.