Not as bad as I remember, but not the best either.

Rating: 6/10 (23 September 2019)

I remember back in the day when DreamWorks mad traditionally animated movie of which many of them are among my favorites of all time. Their computer animated ones can be hit and miss, whereas Madagascar wasn't a big hit with critics but a maasive success in theaters. I may be with the critics on this one.
Not that it doesn't have its good parts, because I definitely enjoyed the penguins who had all the funniest lines. Aside from them, the humour is rather juvenile and goes all nuts too many times for my taste.
So, the humour is scatter-shot, but what about the story? Well, it's not very original, but the execution is well done. Marty the zebra wants to go away from the New York Zoo, because he dreams of the wild while his friends think he's crazy. He goes out and the others go after him and they end up getting to Madagascar where they don't fit in and must try to get home while trying to adapt. A mix of a fish-out-of-water story and getting-back-home story.
They meet a colourful cast of characters who make them their gods or something while still having doubts about their intentions, but that's here where the best parts concerning the main characters happen, because of how the wild brings out something in Alex the lion.
Whether you like Madagascar or not depends on your age or sense of humour, because while it has well executed parts like its colourful animation it lacks in others.