Madagascar (2005) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Despite Madagascar's formulaic tendencies, it's a formula that works, so parents are urged to sit back, relax and enjoy -- the kids surely will.Read the full review
The thin story, which sometimes feels like a series of one-liners strung together, is wisely kept short. But the gags are funny and the characters endearing.Read the full review
Madagascar arouses no sense of wonder, except insofar as you wonder, as you watch it, how so much talent, technical skill and money could add up to so little.Read the full review
Pleasant, if mediocre family fare.Read the full review
Eventually, it had to happen: a computer-animated dud.Read the full review
The plot really is basic, so the bafflement of the movie lies in its combination of visual riches and dramatic -- as well as thematic -- impoverishment.Read the full review
Madagascar is a classical gas. It's a good-humored, pleasant confection that has all kinds of relaxed fun bringing computer-animated savvy to the old-fashioned world of Looney Tunes cartoons.Read the full review
The underwhelming, only fitfully amusing movie left me hungry for more.Read the full review
It's frustrating to see this wonderful-looking, laugh-out-loud funny survival tale fall short of its potential.Read the full review
Madagascar isn't deep and would have no business being deep. But that it keeps one foot in reality is enough to keep us guessing.Read the full review
