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Madagascar

Saturday, 16 July 2005 ‡ 23:07

A story of friendship through the extremest situations, using the most unlikely animals that could ever be friends. Marty the zebra, Alex the lion, Gloria the hippo and Melman the hypochondriac giraffe are voiced superbly by funny Chris Rock, comedian Ben Stiller, beautiful Jada Pinkett Smith and excellent David Schwimmer. Ben's idiosyncrasy is captured very well in the animation of Alex, Chris Rock is easily recognised as the zebra and Schwimmer really brings to life the giraffe, making them all very believable, except i have never visioned Jada as a large hippo!.

Very colourful, musicial and funny throughout the film, always something going on, rarely did the action dip or slow, lots to focus on but not to make your brain ache.

Some really fun characters in the form of the two monkeys and the four penguins. In fact it is the penguins that plant the idea in Marty's head to want go to "The Wild".

This is a very well written comedy animation, definitely one for the DVD collection.

Labels: ben stiller, chris rock, david schwimmer, jada pinkett smith, madagascar