Animated family films with talking animals rarely fail... and this was no exception. For my first film of this year I chose (because it was on BBC3) Madagascar, and it didn't disappoint me.
The group dynamic between the four main characters (Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria) was brilliant, the slapstick comedy was laugh out loud hilarious and they all delivered some very funny lines, especially Melman and King Julian.
The Penguins have a small subplot which could have been expanded. They were brilliantly funny and seemed to have some very socialist/marxist tendencies. Maybe that was just me.
As I was watching the movie, good as it was, my mind drifted to who the voice actors were for the main characters. I immediately worked out that Melman was David Schwimmer and not long after my suspicions were raised that Alex was voiced by Zach Braff. My wild guess for Marty was Chris Rock, it just sounded like him, but I couldn't be sure, and for Gloria I had no idea.
A quick look at Wikipedia shows me that I got two out of three, but not the ones I thought. Alex wasn't Zach Braff but rather Ben Stiller. It sounded so much like Braff though!. I also found out that the voice of King Julian was Sacha Baron Cohen, which makes sense now, but I couldn't tell at the time.
Brilliant fun, not hugely sophisticated, but then, neither am I.
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