USA 2005 - Animation/Family — 86 min — Directed by Eric Darnell
Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer

At New York’s Central Park Zoo, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo are best friends and stars of the show. But when one of the animals goes missing from their cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited … on a ship en route to the island of Madagascar. When their vessel capsizes off the coast, however, the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild.

I was expecting a lousy movie, and that’s what was delivered. Below average animation that would have been allright five years ago. It definitely wasn’t funny in any way, at most it made me smirk in a couple places. I’ve heard about the penguins being funny, and they certainly were - not. You might like this one, if you’re under ten. The in-jokes were so pathetic and poorly done it made me wanna scream. Oh. They were supposed to be funny? Haha. Riiight. THe whole movie had no spark at all, just made to fill the bankaccounts of Dreamworks and the voice-talent. That brings me to the performances of said folks. Stiller was so bland and boring that I never got the least interested, and Schwimmer was dull, dull, dull. Smith did ok, but anyone could have done that - and better. Only Chris Rock did well, but there was no humor in this movie. Not to my taste in any case. But worst of all was the Lemur King. He was terrible, just horribly bad. I fear that this one belongs right beside Shark Tale - on the bottom of the sea, left there to just vanish. Madagascar is the worst CG movie I’ve seen yet. I’m afraid to watch Shark Tale and Will “My-head-is-sooo-fucking-big” Smith. No, after this I even dread it.

My Rating: 3/10