Return to the Wild

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2005)

In the animated movie Madagascar, the wild is a symbol of freedom. Different characters have different prospective on this because for Marty it is very much wanted, and because Alex, Melmen, and Gloria on the other hand like the city life. Furthermore, the penguins feel that the animals do not belong in a zoo but in the wild where they came from.
I watched this movie because I enjoy seeing computer animated movies. My little brother just got it so I thought what a great opportunity.
Marty really wants to go to the wild to run free. He feels his life will always be the same if the stays at the zoo. "I just eat here, then there, then stand over here, and then over there!" Marty told Alex. He is always daydreaming while running on his treadmill inside his exhibit while he stares at the mural on the wall by his exhibit. During his birthday he wishes that he could one day be free to run in the wild. The rest of the gang thought he was crazy.
Alex, Melmen, and Gloria do not want to go to the wild for a number of reasons. Alex, for example, is the main attraction at the zoo, and if he went to the wild nobody would care about him, see, or admire him. Melmen is a hypochondriac and in the wild he would not be able to get all his special medication he would get if he stayed at the zoo. Gloria is a hippopotamus so she just likes to relax and eat all day, and what better place to do that in than in a zoo where everyone takes care of you. There are some other animals in the zoo that have a whole different idea, like the penguins.
The penguins have this crazy military mentality. They think that the zoo and everyone else in the world is against them. They are always trying to escape. They think that animals do not belong locked up in cages but free to roam the wild where they came from. Their main objective in the movie is to return to Antarctica and be free.
Madagascar is a fun, must see movie.