![]() ![]() The edgy dialogue at times warrants the elevation of rating but most little ones won’t get it nor will parents have to be explaining the birds and the bees later. The run time is about 1 1/2 hours and it’s rated “PG”. I’m definitely gonna buy this one and I didn’t buy the first.ĭirectors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath of “Madagascar” (2005) partner again to direct this version. Music and dancing happen pretty regularly throughout the film. ![]() Even more funny because they’re all MALE! The monkeys who are recruited by the penguins to help rebuild the plane are hilarious as they strike for MATERNITY BENEFITS. Sacha Baron Cohen is the voice for Lemur King Julien and Cedric the Entertainer plays his second-in-command, Maurice. Since his are the most involved, I’m not going to give it away here. it’s a CLIP-ON!!Īnd Alex (Ben Stiller), his trials and tribulations are precious. A requirement for proper witchdoctor attire. I particularly loved the bone-in-the-nose. That allows him to takes chances more since he thinks he has limited time left. He’s fulfilled until his peers tell him all their doctors die within 48 hours of doctor disease. That mean ‘HOT’! His first ‘compliment’ is about her weight!! Not thrilled, she kind of lets it pass because he’s the most desired male in the pack and she’s smitten. Hippo face, then the massive chest with ‘pecs’ and little sprinkle of curly chest hair, muscled arms and legs, striding with heated intent toward Gloria. Great scene: She’s on the bank of the watering hole when she looks toward the water to see hippo eyes fixed on her. Gloria’s ego rivals “Miss Piggy” for her looks. Marty’s indignance at not being “special” anymore is hilarious. Then he talks to Marty thinking it’s just another zebra. Alex talks to one zebra thinking it’s Marty and it’s not. Marty finding out that he’s hard to find in a crowd of 200 other zebras. But can you send animals back into the wild? Now cartoons are asking the question.įunny stuff: Any scene with the feisty old lady from New York who shows up on a safari tour. ![]() When they crash in Africa, they each find their roots. Marty the zebra (Chris Rock - rivaling Eddie Murphy as the donkey in ‘Shrek’) wants to find a family. Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), keeps trying to deal with his feelings for Gloria but circumstances and his own insecurity keep him from letting it out. All panic except Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) who sleeps through the whole thing. About the time he does, they plummet and the passengers end up on the ceiling. He’s too busy trying to help her prepare for their crash, he forgets to tell the passengers. The Captain penguin has a crush on the bobble-head hula doll on the dashboard. “There, no more problem.” Until the engines stop. Picking it up above his head, he slams it down to break the red light. Usually means something is in need of attention. The dialogue goes something like this… “Ahh, red light. The flight is short but the laughs keep coming. They sing all the way to the plane that’s going to take them back to New York. “I like to move it, move it”, “She likes to move it, move it”, “We like to move it, move it”… greatest movie song in a cartoon I can remember since ‘Lion King’. The bootie shake happens several times in the movie. Those commercials where the hippo, giraffe, lion, and zebra dance and swing their booties doesn’t do justice to the full dance scene – music and all. The next 5 minutes describes the escape from the zoo, the crazy old lady who beats up Alex the lion, and all the characters’ who ended up on the island in the first movie. These 10 minutes catches up with how baby Alex grew up and became “King of New York” dancing for crowds in the New York Zoo. There’s a frantic chase to catch the trappers’ truck in which baby ends up floating off to New York in a crate. In fact, that’s how baby ends up caught by trappers when Makunga and Zuba are fighting (no shown on screen - nothing violent for kids). Here it’s Zuba (Bernie Mac) who constantly contemplates how to undermine Makunga. There has to be an evil lion (who looks like Scar in “Lion King”) who wants to take the throne. Except baby has no interest in anything but chasing butterflies. The movie opens with the usual cutesy Daddy lion, Makunga (Alex Baldwin) teaching the baby lion to be the alpha male. But wait, the writers didn’t have to spend precious movie time creating “character” for all the characters!! Now they actually had time to develop a story with spicy little upstarts whose dialogue keeps the laughs coming. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close MenuĪll our favorite Madagascar characters are back for a second go-round.
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