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06/04/05
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Madagascar (2005)
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Reviews Counted:179
Fresh:98
Rotten:81
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: A solid if unspectacular CGI flick.
Theatrical Release:May 27, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $193,136,719
Synopsis: The friendship between a New York City lion and zebra is tested when fate brings them out to the unforgiving wilderness in this computer-animated DreamWorks feature. Chris Rock does the voice of... [More]
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
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04/29/09
Feels as if it has been created from an animator's template.
07/05/05
No king of the jungle, just a loud piece of light summer family fluff.
05/27/05
Lame scatalogical gags and worn pop-culture parodies abound, but the CGI animation romp is somewhat redeemed by the scene-stealing appearances of several supporting characters.
06/24/06
The movie is like a doughnut, with frosting on the edges and a big hole in the middle.
05/26/05
Like many computer-animated features, this one, about four animals exiled from the Central Park Zoo, expends most of its imaginative resources on clever visuals.
05/26/05
Top CriticThe film never gets going. It's too slow and plodding for kids.
05/26/05
Madagascar: story stretched thin. Animated adventure works for kids.
05/27/05
Rental material, at best.
06/20/05
If Madagascar is in all ways a sunnier place than Walt Disney's matricidal canon, it is also a correspondingly less magical kingdom.
05/26/05
Top CriticI wanted a moral to the story. In Finding Nemo: Don't let fear rule your life. Shrek: True beauty is on the inside. Madagascar: Don't eat your friends?
09/27/06
The movie's celebrity voice talent is reined in, and potentially scary parts are toned down, ensuring that even very young kids will appreciate most scenes. Unfortunately, this modulated approach extends to the story, which lacks a climax.
05/27/05
For all of its easy jokes about poop and flatulence, the one stinking here is the movie itself.
06/20/05
If you're six, the idea that your best friend might want to eat you isn't so literal or alarming.
05/28/05
Madagascar is a film that, visually, is quite colorful and lively, but what’s underneath is bland, uninventive, and downright dull.
06/05/05
After you see Madagascar, you start to think that the movies are being dumbed down even for small children.
05/23/05
Top CriticTechnically brilliant – but pathetically ignorant.
05/27/05
...the film is just so bland...
05/27/05
Surprisingly clumsy in its efforts to please young and old alike. A major disappointment.
05/26/05
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