The Grandkids were bored

Rating: 6/10 (24 November 2005)

We bought the DVD so that the grandkids would have something to watch when they came to visit. It turns out that Madagascar is more for adults that children. Like most animated features in recent times, this one likes to rip scenes from any number of films. The Great Escape, Planet of the Apes, Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone," and a few others (whose titles escape me at the moment) were represented. Amazingly, the animators went to great pains to accurately depict the kinds of animals that are endemic to Madagascar -- although the fossas behaved more like a pack of hyenas rather than the solitary beasts that they are. Even the rainforest background was pretty accurately depicted. All of that, however, was lost on a 7-year old and her 5-year old sibling. I thought the movie had some good lines, but that went way over the heads of the kids, and the action didn't suit them at all.