Better than the first, with its main problem !

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2011)

The 2 movies of Madagascar are nice for many reasons. The cute characters; my favorites are the lion and - of course - the secret agent penguins. The colorful refreshing drawings. The vociferous animation is perfect; Alex's movement is unbelievably vivid, and one of the closest 3D image to the crazy cartoons. And the soundtrack is happy. In fact, these 2 movies have only one problem.
I'm talking about the script. The first had its luckless share of it. Now the second is better altogether. Besides spacious cadres, more action, there is sure much smarter script. It provides a solid conflict, reconciliation, and love stories. It's more than noticeable how it fixes the first's flaw when it forgot all about Melman and Gloria since its second half. And this time, finally, the penguins *can* successfully plan, rightly drive, and seriously invent. So compared to the first, it's full of memorable motion and emotions indeed. Though, while being less flawed, it's not completely the best either. It does lack many points.
The comedy is dry. For instance, I didn't get the monkey's jokes, or love the end's marriage (between a penguin and a doll?!), and I suffered from every single second that had the "King" talking! The energetic parody's spirit is gone, you can recognize merely one swift spoof based on West Side Story. The whole character of the old woman was so unfunny, and annoying. Let alone her perfectly forced storyline: How come Newyorkers live in the jungle like natives? How come water disappears due to a dam they built? How they built it in the first place? How come that that lady fights the leads violently?!! Obviously, this movie missed appropriate antagonist, for its third act, badly!
It's better than the first, yet with its exact problem. The script, as a problem, became something I ran into endlessly lately when it regards American movies!
P.S: In this movie, Alex lived in the wild with his family for quite some time. So how nobody noticed that he eats fish instead of meat? This is just a question with mala fides, aiming at the worst point in the first movie!