Madagascar (2005)

The series was successful but people barely talk about it unless it's King Julian or the Penguins Now this is one of the DreamWorks animated movies that doesn't get much attention as the other franchises. This more of a lay back review the reason its short compare to my Shark Tale review. Without a further-a-do lets move it move it: Animation: I like the animation here and I think it aged far better then Shark Tale's animations. From my previous review on Shark Tale the animation for that movie is terrible but funny. Here I like the animation being stylized and that's a thing DreamWorks consistently do for the pasting years. I like the sun rise montage and I love the creativity with the movie. I love the character designs , like in my Shark Tale review I said the characters looks hideous and their faces are based on the actors which doesn't translate well but here its not the case. As a guy who likes visual gags on their designs this is my comedy. Comedy: As a comedy its pretty funny ,for the most part except for the pop culture humour which like Shark Tale feels like it forced you to laugh or get the joke. Plot: The plot is simple and entertaining. The plot is also absurd at times and I like it and doesn't feel stupid like Shark Tale. My favourite part of the movie is act 1 because it shows all of the characters and its try to focus on Marty but then it focus on Alex for some reason like is this about the group in fact my big criticism is that Gloria and Melman barely got focus and development. I love the ending where the penguins said they ran out of fuel for the boat and I think its cleaver cliff hanging. Characters: Honestly I like the characters are not badly written. I like the movie shows the characters personality. Alex the lion is handle well because I think he got the most development. He is an egotistical who is proud of his frame and love his audience but when he gets to Madagascar he gets angry and even got savage think his friends are meat. He eventually warms up with his friends reunited. Marty the zebra is an okay character because he got a desires to go to the wild and friends with his gang. It feels like they could have get away with a liar revel trope by Marty lies to his friends he stay here and apologize to every one like Shark Tale but thankfully they didn't. I like Gloria because she acts like the mother of the group and always try to keep them together, I wish she gets more focus. Melman also should get focus because he always want to stay out of danger and this line "FREE MINT!" this always cracks me up! Thank god King Julian wasn't originally script for a minor character with 2 lines because he is basically the Genie from Aladdin he is funny and memorable every line is so iconic. "How long iS tHis GOINg To TaKe?!" I don't need to tell you that the penguins are very funny too. Like I love they went Antarctica , "well this sucks" and head back with iconic lines like "Don't give me excuse! Give me results!". The fossa are useless: The Fossa in my opinion is the worst part of the movie because they don't have a leader or even doesn't looks threating at all. They are the most less important part of the entire movie. I would mention that the casting of the movie is perfect and all of the cast fits the characters voices and personality. Final thoughts: Overall this movie is an improvement to Shark Tale but it does have it flaws but I enjoyed it. This movie feels like one of those DreamWorks one-offs and its surprising it got a sequel and another and a spin-off. It has a simple story, entertaining characters , good stylized animation and best of all I like to move it move it song. That's all I got to say!