Iwas surprised; I just got an email from DreamWorks. Well, this had to be a hox, but, you know i received many emails from Pixar before, but I was pretty surprised. Maybe they actually hired employees to check their emails and responded. Maybe this is some sort of.. hm... gift?
I even got a few glimpses of the Fossas as well, with wide smiles and their tongues sticking out as they enjoyed watching the lion who has now turned predator like them mauling his best friend to death.
It cut to a shot of Alex staring at the two animals, however Melman and Gloria were suddenly off-screen as if Alex was actually staring at me. I felt extremely uncomfortable watching this I closed my eyes until the staring was over.
Alex began to pick Private up with his jaw while the latter screamed before swallowing him whole. Rico was shocked before he started to run. Skipper and Kowalski ran, too. Alex pounced on Rico and ate him whole, too.
I never knew people could add creepy thing in animated DreamWorks films like what they do with Pixar. I then went to delete the file, but I thought it would be a good idea if people would believe me. I posted the video to Google Drive and sent my friends a link via email. They were shocked too. Madagascar was a good movie from my childhood, but what I saw will always be in my nightmares forever.
With all of the demands that are constantly being placed on screenwriters between managing your career, learning about screenwriting, spending time with your family, and actually writing balancing all of these things can turn into a juggling act rather quickly.
The film focuses on how this group of hilarious covert birds came together, became involved in global espionage, and joined forces with an undercover organization known as The North Wind to stop the villainous plans of an octopus named Dr. Octavius Brine (aka Dave) who is determined to destroy the world as we know it.
To the untrained eye, the statement from the critics above would seem to quickly justify you skipping over this film or considering it just another kiddie movie. However, there are several reasons why this animated film works really well.
This is important because your goal as a screenwriter should be to reach and affect the broadest audience possible while tapping into universal emotions of the human condition like the writers of this film have done.
Score: C
I'd heard that the third 'Madagascar' movie was the best of the three films. I'm here to say: No, it's not. I think it's better than the first movie, but not nearly as good as 'Madagascar 2'. I really liked that one.
'Madagascar 3' takes a LONG time to get going. It's pretty boring for about the first half hour and has few-to-no laughs during that time. Once the four main characters join the circus things pick up and the movie becomes enjoyable to watch.
When they put on their Cirque du Soleil circus show, it's pretty cool. That scene is a surreal one involving all of the characters flying around as well as the song "Firework" by Katy Perry. I also liked the two shots when the monkey is shooting at Capt. DuBois. They're slow-mo shots from artsy angles.
I really liked the character of Stefano, the seal with the Italian accent. His design looks good and he's sweet and funny. I sort of like the character less once I found that it was Martin Short that voiced him, but that's ok in the end. I also liked Frances McDormand as the character Capt. DuBois, the animal control officer, but I feel like I've seen her like before.
Then there's the bad: Is it just me or is all kids' entertainment nowadays extremely assaulting? The cuts are too quick. Things are too loud. The characters talk too fast. God, I must be getting too old for this shit. I also felt that the animation--like most animation from Dreamworks--is too springy and feels too weightless, like they're all digital creations with no mass... er, wait a minute. That's what they are. It's the animators' job to animate them in such a way that we, the audience, forget that they're digital creations. I mean, Dreamworks finally got things right with 'Kung Fu Panda'. Why can't all their endevors be that good? Oh, well. Pixar will come out with 'Brave' in a few weeks and we can go see some good animation. (Although, to pick on Pixar for a second: I feel that their recent movies have way too much overacting, but that's a whole other issue)
Am a huge fan of the penguin of Madagascar I which ther show so much even in the movie I know all the lines and some in the episode I love the songs and I a huge fan of them I would love them to be real if they were I would love to in the unite
James: The opportunity on marketing for this film was missed due perhaps to the length of time between projects. I saw no movie figures, no plushies of Skipper and his bunch, and I saw no limited run of Cheese Dibbles.
Instead, the narrative was all over with vignettes. In the main plot about Dave (John Malkovich), a mad octopus having a hate on for all of penguin kind, I could not help but be reminded of the revenge plot Dr. Blowhole hatched from the television series. I was seeing familiarity in this film and I did find that Malkovich did a great job in getting into the role. Even Benedict Cumberbatch was patient and commanding as a timber wolf. They nearly stole the show.
J: Having to listen to the writers play the game of using as many Hollywood celebrities names in the script is old hat. And the scene where the Penguins forgot who the villain (and his name) was drew on for far too long. It was good in the first two scenes but after that it was an annoyance.
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Penguins of Madagascar is the kind of movie we thought we were getting three years ago with Puss In Boots. That film was a fantastical fairy-tale infused western adventure, full of exciting action and surprisingly strong characters. This one is a straight cash-in, a spin-off from a different popular franchise with little to justify its existence beyond obvious monetary interests. It is not so much "bad" as it is stunningly indifferent to providing anything beyond occasional surface-level entertainment value. It is well-animated and it roars into action from the first moments and never really slows down for 80-some minutes. It has a few earned laughs and a few clever visual gags, but it is lacking in thematic richness or even much beyond rudimentary narrative beats. I am loathe to call the end product of the hard work of countless animators and artists "lazy," but as someone who has spent many years defending DreamWorks Animation and will sing the praises of the vast majority of their films in at least some capacity (do a Google search for "Scott Mendelson" and "Kung Fu Panda 2"), I know full well that they can do better.
The film starts off promisingly, with a prologue amusingly narrated by Werner Herzog that earns laughs mostly because it's Werner Herzog riffing both his own image and the brief "we love penguins" fad from a decade ago. If the famed filmmaker/documentarian is entering the somewhat self-aware/self-parody stage of his career, and roles in Jack Reacher and next season's Parks and Recreation seem to indicate as much, then I would say we are all in for a treat. But once the film shifts to the present, we get into the actual story and it's bare bones at best. The film is frankly paced like a bullet. If the film wants to be a kind of espionage thriller, then the closest 007 comparison would be Quantum of Solace. The film just never stops moving, not even to properly develop what is supposed to be its trump card element, but I'll get to that in a moment. The picture is breathless, but to no real thematic end. This feature film is less an out-and-out movie than, increased production values aside, three episodes of the Penguins of Madagascar television series stitched together.
In terms of plot, the four penguins from the movie Madagascar end up in the clutches and then attempting to defeat a tyrannical octopus (John Malkovich, mugging like you've never seen before). The initial confrontation and breathless escape amounts to a curtain-raiser, and the chase scene is clever and fun even if it lacks the verve of the similar pursuit from Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted. After the initial reel, we are introduced to "The North Wind," a team of would-be superheroes/super-spies who have been tracking the evil Dr. Octavius Brine. The rest of the film involves the four penguins attempting to capture Brine on their own even as the North Wind attempts to do their job with or without the help of our heroes. There is no character development, no emotional beats, and no real tension or urgency. As a result, while there is periodic amusement, there is little to justify viewer engagement over the long haul.
The four superheroes are, I would argue, the film's primary reason to exist. Just as the penguins were spun-off from the Madagascar movies into a television series and now this feature, I cannot help but presume that DreamWorks Animation has similar designs for The North Wind. Yet this team is most visually bland (they are all white and dressed in mostly light grays) and lack personality beyond what kind of animal they are and their core talent. Benedict Cumberbatch is their leader while Annet Mahendru voices "Eve," the owl who is both the only female character in the movie and utterly useless aside from her use as a romantic prize to be won at the film's conclusion (sigh).
I couldn't tell you offhand about the other two team members, save that one is a polar bear and the other is a seal. Considering DreamWorks is at least somewhat concerned about branching out franchise-friendly characters in such a manner, it is a little odd that they decided to bring in a superhero ensemble, a team that could very easily turn into their own cash cow with a television series or a spin-off feature down the line, and do so little with them. It's nice that the film isn't a backdoor pilot, with the stars being hapless so the guest stars can show their stuff (see any backdoor pilot for any CBS procedural over the last decade), but the team makes zero impression in terms of personality or visual oomph. The Penguins of Madagascar has a few solid visual gags (a bit involving falling luggage from a passenger jet is clever) and a bare minimum of pop culture references. But it also lacks any real storytelling invention or character richness.
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