May 30th, 2005

Madagascar

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We saw the latest animated flick Madagascar last night as part of the Memorial Day movie rituals. Thankfully, rest of the world was preoccupied with why Anakin turns Darth Vader letting us amble in the almost-empty theater for Madagascar. The movie revolves around four zoo animals; Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melvin the giraffe, and Gloria the hippo trying to break free from the Central Park Zoo to the wild. Interestingly enough, they tried to escape to Connecticut (their idea of wild) and took the same route as we did during our last week’s trip to New York. They take the same Lexington subway and walk down Fifth Avenue to Grand Central. Overall, the movie is extremely hilarious and voiceovers credits include Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett-Smith. Although the friendship between Alex and Marty is kinda gayish (the movie makes fun of that fact too), it provides some extremely funny moments. However, the best characters are the penguins and the desi-accented Malagasy lemur king. As a side plot, the penguins hijack the ocean liner that is taking them to the wilds of Kenya. Check out the penguin hijack scene a la SWAT style; I was almost rolling on the floor laughing hard. The lemur king with his desi-style “I want to move it, move it” in a rave-like party, along with his side kick minister has some funny lines. The movie also explore the free but brutal nature of the wild and not-so-romantic feel of freedom under the allusions of Darwin’s survival of the fittest. City folks simply cannot adapt to the call of the wild, even if they are animals.

I am starting to love the animated movies more than the real ones now.

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4 Responses to “Madagascar”

  1. Ramana Says:

    Animation has always held me in awe…more for the fact that the ‘real’ people responsible from creating them are so much more at ease in the animation world than they are in the real world… I guess we all see ourselves doing impossible feats, rather want to see ourselves that way that spurs our imagination on…

    ok enough said. :)

  2. ram Says:

    I was wondering if animation is celeberation of skill over looks. ‘Real’ movie stars trade on their looks and the story and other stuff fall by the wayside. animations require greater strength of story and character rather than just looking awesome, though most do.

  3. Patrix Says:

    Ramana - It is amazing to see how much the field of digital animation has changed. Pixar and Dreamworks have taken movies to a level where they almost clash with reality.

    Ram - Actually if you look closer, the storyline of most animated movies is pretty basic but the way it is treated along with liberal doses of humor makes it extra special. Some ‘real’ movies have such astounding screeenplays that no animated movie could match it but then they are two different genres, aren’t they?

  4. Mirage Says:

    I loved the movie..was rolling!!:)))

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