Ehhhhhhh....

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2005)

The three of us saw it and I think it's fair to say that we all felt the trailers were the best part. The timing was really off in the movie--funny, really, the trailers had had great pacing for the gags. The plot was fairly disappointing and the ending was thoroughly unsatisfying. I kept feeling like there should've been more going on throughout.
The animation was good, the characters were okay (yes, ring-tailed lemurs really do act a lot like that, song and dance notwithstanding), and the voices were okay, although I kept feeling like Chris Rock as the zebra smacked a lot like Eddie Murphy as the donkey. Both were fine in their roles and I'm very keen on both actors, but it seemed a lot like the same role with similar, brassy voices. The penguins were very funny and, as someone else said, they should've carried the movie on their own. It'd be nice if the movie had had something like a plot.
Perhaps the most telling response was that, a day later, I still felt let down. There wasn't anything good about the movie I cared to remember.