A boring ass film

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2007)

I found this film brain-numbingly boring. Though the film has a formidable voice-cast (Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer) but it is really dull. The story consists of 4 animals Alex the Lion (Stiller), Mary the Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Grace the Hippo (Jada Pinkett-Smith), who have a comfortable life in New York but find themselves shipped of to Madagascar. Now looking at the voice cast it seems like a funny film, and don't get me wrong there are some funny moments but they are barely memorable. You know just one-liners about animal antics really. I don't know whether it's just me but I had to force myself to watch the film with my sister who found it dull as well. In fact she had similar thoughts on how the characters were designed, and how ugly they looked. For me this is a great disappointment from Dreamworks Animation, I mean Shrek, Shark Tale, Flushed Away are funny and at the least decent. The jokes I felt were not satisfactory for a cast like that, and the studios who made this film. The jokes were meaningless one-liners, the character models were ugly (thugh the animation is good i cannot take that away from them). Hopefully the second one will prove more successful.