Premiere, 02/01/2006, p.106, "Ben Stiller and Chris Rock's characters may be digital but the actors' personas propel their every move."
USA Today, 05/27/2005, p.8E, "The animation is visually stunning, and the animals' stylized rendering and friendly look is in keeping with the energetic mood of the movie."
Entertainment Weekly, 06/03/2005, p.61-62, "[A] delightfully wacked new digitally animated comedy....Untamed fun."
Sight and Sound, 08/01/2005, p.60, "MADAGASCAR offers plenty of amusement..."
Title Note
THEATRICAL RELEASE: MAY 27, 2005
Release Note
DVD Features:
Region 1 Snap Case Full Frame - 1.33 Dual (Single Sided) Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, Spanish Subtitles - English Subtitles - French Subtitles - Spanish Additional Release Material: Behind The Scenes - BEHIND THE CRATES Commentary Featurette - 1. The Penguins in a Christmas Caper 2. Mad Mishaps 3. Meet the Wild Cast 4. The Tech of Madagascar Music Video - I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT - Trailer - Previews Interactive Features: Bequal Madagascar Trivia Game Learn to Draw Fossa Whack Game Matching Lemurs Game Marty's Birthday Wish Game Madagascar Symphony Game Enchanted Island Text/Photo Galleries: Cast Filmmakers Production Notes Stills/Photos: Gallery
DVD Features:
Region 1 Snap Case Single Side - Dual Layer Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French Subtitles - English Subtitles - French Subtitles - Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary Behind the Scenes: BEHIND THE CRATES Music Video: I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT - Trailers: Previews Featurette: 1. The Penguins in a Christmas Caper 2. Mad Mishaps 3. Meet the Wild Cast 4. The Tech of Madagascar Interactive Features: Bequal Madagascar Trivia Game Enchanted Island Fossa Whack Game Learn to Draw Madagascar Symphony Game Marty's Birthday Wish Game Matching Lemurs Game Text/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Cast Filmmakers
Product Notes
The friendship between a New York City lion and zebra is tested when fate brings them out to the unforgiving wilderness in this computer-animated DreamWorks feature. Chris Rock does the voice of Marty the Zebra, whose longing to explore beyond his cushy Central Park Zoo boundaries is the impetus that ultimately strands him and his pals on the shores of savage Madagascar. Marty loves the new, edible scenery, but his best friend Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller) the Lion begins to starve since his diet of thick steaks has been cut off, and the rump of his friend starts to look mighty tasty. Their other friends, a hypochondriac giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a sassy hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), try their best to think of a solution as the call of the wild slowly turns the starving Alex into Marty's worst nightmare. Meanwhile the hilariously self-aggrandizing King of the Ocelots (Sacha Cohen) has a plan to use Marty to repel their own carnivore problem. This kid-oriented comedy stays adult-friendly every step of the way thanks to a clever script that mixes New Yorker humor and even some existentialism in with the pratfalls and spit-takes. Jolts of comedic brilliance are supplied by some Arctic-bound escaped con penguins, and a couple of literary apes. It's not a musical, but classic songs from the likes of Louis Armstrong and Sammy Davis Jr. keep the montages flowing loose and sassy.
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