"I like ta move it, move it"

Rating: 7/10 (26 August 2005)

Four animals. A jumpy, frisky and at times a bit beastly lion, a frisky, talkative, adventuress zebra, a chubby, witty and goodhearted hypo and a bit apathetic and indecisive giraffe. Wow. Feels like I know them already. And just like us they live their daily routine. And just like us, one of these animals(?) starts to feel the urge to change that routine. To see and feel the outside world, to go to the WILD!
Now really I'm not a big fan of computer animated films. In the last 5 or more years I've only seen a few of these sort of flicks and today I've realized a really funny thing. All of the movies I've seen were produced by Dream Works(Antz, Shrek, Shrek 2 and now Madgascar). How and why is this so, is beyond me. Madagascar came into my hands by pure coincidence.
OK, just to let you know that I'm still new to this. I could place Madagascar as my favorite of those films, though I wasn't purely nuts about any of them (both Shreks were a bit of a disappointment). There are still a few unconvincing things to it like the humor for instance. It seemed slightly too familiar, predictable and boring at times, but at least the characters had some real life in them.
There were also a couple of parts that really didn't seem to fit all well together, especially towards the end with the lion. Oh yes the lion. Now I can kind of understand what some critics meant when they said that Shrek has a lot of adult humor in it. At times the lion didn't seem like the hungriest beast in the wild but more like the horniest. :)
An interesting resemblance.
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