Fun for everyone!

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2005)

I thought this movie was really great! I liked all the people playing the voices, and the penguins were especially funny. I wish they had more screen time though. Basically the story is about a zebra in a zoo who hears about the wild and naturally wants to check it out, although his animal friends like the zoo. When he escapes and roams the city, animal rights activists send him and his friends (a lion, giraffe, and hippo) along with two monkeys and the penguins to Africa. Their boxes fall off the ship and instead they land in Madagascar and try to survive the wild. This is a movie for the whole family, anyone can see it. I laughed through the whole thing and my kids enjoyed it a ton. I especially loved David Schwimmer as the hypochondriac giraffe. He was very enjoyable. Although I'm not to keen on Ben Stiller playing an animated character, it was a very good movie. Besides a few cheesy lines here and there and the few dull minutes towards the end, it was excellent.