Dull Stuff We've All Seen Too Many Times.

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2005)

If there was ever a film that made you nostalgic for old school animated movies, it is Madagascar.
It's not only that this computer-generated comedy would have been more visually appealing had it been hand-drawn. Madagascar makes you long for a time when story was more important than cleverness; before having celebrities voicing the characters was a marketing requisite; before you needed to be thoroughly immersed in pop culture to get the gags.
Madagascar gets as lost in the jungle as its hapless heroes, none of whom are developed as characters. They're simply the public personalities of Rock (quick-witted); Stiller (whiny) and Schwimmer (fussy) in animal skins. Pickett-Smith, meanwhile, is such an afterthought that she seems to be there only to meet a perceived diversity requirement.
This one was a waste of time for ALL ages.