What do you think was the main message of the movie?.Do you think it was right for Alex to feel bad about his naturally carnivorous tendencies?.If only they'd spread some of this genuine humor throughout the rest of the movie. Who doesn't love a good lemur-doing-the-robot gag? And the penguins link arms (fins?) and do a little can-can action. The best by far is the King and his stoic sidekick Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) doing the robot dance. While King Julien the 13th belts out the infectious (read: those with small children will hear this lyric nonstop for days) "I Like to Move It," the various characters dance alongside the scrolling names.
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As the movie progresses, the humor threshold gets lower and lower.Īnd just as the movie runs out of steam, the final credits save the day. And while there are clever references to American Beauty, Cast Away, and Chariots of Fire, there's also too much low-brow hypochondriac humor (bladder infections, rectal thermometers, and poop references) and not one, but two tranquilizer dart drugged-up delusion sequences. We don't get enough of the precocious penguins, who steal every scene with their conspiracy theories and Mission Impossible-like adventures. The plotting penguins might be the funniest part of the movie And Gloria is the lovable fly-girl hip-o who keeps them all in line. Melman is laughably neurotic as he traipses the mean streets of New York with Kleenex boxes on his feet to protect him from the grime. Alex is endearingly brash as the zoo's "mane" attraction. Marty is relatably wistful as he wonders if there's something more to life. Up to this point the pace and premise have been pleasing. On the way, the penguins stealthily commandeer the ship and set their sights on Antarctica, a sharp change of course that knocks our four crated friends overboard, only to wash ashore in Madagascar. When his friends stage an intervention, they all get caught and shipped to Africa. After a bit of birthday brooding, he decides to trot out the door on his own after lights-out that night and take the subway north toward adventure. When Marty shares his birthday-candle-blowing dream of going wild with his best buds, they don't get it. This wanderlust is fueled in part by the penguins, who put fanciful ideas in Marty's head about the "wilds of Connecticut" while trying to dig their way there themselves with plastic spoons and Popsicle sticks. Marty, look, you've gotta be just a little bit more and.Melman the Giraffe, Marty the Zebra, Alex the Lion, and Gloria the Hippo Do you honestly think I intended all of this to happen? You want me to say that I'm sorry? Is that what you want? OK, I'm. I'm ruined! I'm gone! I'm out of the business! It's your fault, Marty! You've ruined me!Ĭome on, Alex. San Diego! Now I'll have to compete with Shamu and his smug little grin. We're just going to find the people, get checked in and have this mess straightened out. I'm gonna strangle you, then bury you, dig you up and clone you and kill all your clones!Īnd then, I'm never talking to you again! This place is crackalacking! Oh, I could hang here. San Diego? What could be worse than San Diego? I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo. White sandy beaches, cleverly simulated natural environment, wide-open enclosures. All right? No harm, no foul, right? Oh, no, no, no. Oh! Would you give a guy a break? Aw! We're just gonna take my little friend here home and. Hey! Don't be calling me cuckoo in the head. Actually, my friend just went a little crazy. We just, uh, had a little situation here. Okay? You're not so good with the "putting the words together and they're coming out good" thing. This is a highly refined type of food thing. There's certainly none of this in the wild So one could take the train? Just Hypothetically. What you gotta do is you go over to Grand Central, and then you gotta take the Metro-North Tran. Well, I hear they have wide-open spaces in Connecticut. Back to your roots, clean air, wide-open spaces! The wild? Are you nuts? That is the worst ideal I've ever heard.Ĭome on, Just imagine going back to nature. You want some bad luck, I'll blab it out, But if you want to be safe, I'll keep my mouth shut.Ĭould you just tell us? I mean, really.
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