Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
I am a big fan of the first movie, as is Mo. While he really enjoyed the sequel it fell flat for me. All in all a good movie that I reccommend but you are going to see it whether you want to our not, so its good that the movie is not horrible. Face it, there are just some movies that if you have children your going to find in your DVD player at some point.
All the main characters and voice personality's return for the sequel with the inclusion of two outstanding voice talents. Bernie Mac in one of his last two films completed before his death by illness this past summer and the always great Alec Baldwin. Mac plays the father of Alex and the king of the pride and Baldwin the scheming lion always trying to take control. Think Scar from Lion King without the malevolence.
The movie opens with a flash back to Alex as a lion cub and how he made his way to the zoo in NYC. In a quite clever segue, news reports show how Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman end up lost in the first movie.In a fast and vocal music number the entire cast is reintroduced and transported to the African mainland. I give credit to the director for depicting a pretty horrible plane flight with enough aplumb to elicit laughs and not shrieks.
The remaining of the movie is the main characters processing into the wild. The bulk of the story is again Alex. In the same vein as the first movie, Alex struggles with the difference between being the King of New Yok and King of the Jungle. Marty finds out that he is not as unique as he thinks. Melman becomes a witch doctor. Gloria fends off two suitors and the penquins fix the airplane with the help of a unionized monkey army, the monkeys have thumbs and numbers.
The graphics are outstanding and much better than first movie. The humor is very much child appropriate targetting the right demographic but there is less pandering to parent laughs so it could be hard to sit through more than once. Its so hard to create a movie like say Shrek, that gets parents to laugh and keep children engaged. In all a solid movie that will translate well into residual sales.
All the main characters and voice personality's return for the sequel with the inclusion of two outstanding voice talents. Bernie Mac in one of his last two films completed before his death by illness this past summer and the always great Alec Baldwin. Mac plays the father of Alex and the king of the pride and Baldwin the scheming lion always trying to take control. Think Scar from Lion King without the malevolence.
The movie opens with a flash back to Alex as a lion cub and how he made his way to the zoo in NYC. In a quite clever segue, news reports show how Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman end up lost in the first movie.In a fast and vocal music number the entire cast is reintroduced and transported to the African mainland. I give credit to the director for depicting a pretty horrible plane flight with enough aplumb to elicit laughs and not shrieks.
The remaining of the movie is the main characters processing into the wild. The bulk of the story is again Alex. In the same vein as the first movie, Alex struggles with the difference between being the King of New Yok and King of the Jungle. Marty finds out that he is not as unique as he thinks. Melman becomes a witch doctor. Gloria fends off two suitors and the penquins fix the airplane with the help of a unionized monkey army, the monkeys have thumbs and numbers.
The graphics are outstanding and much better than first movie. The humor is very much child appropriate targetting the right demographic but there is less pandering to parent laughs so it could be hard to sit through more than once. Its so hard to create a movie like say Shrek, that gets parents to laugh and keep children engaged. In all a solid movie that will translate well into residual sales.
posted by Comm's @ 9:46 AM
1 Comments:
I really wanted to see this one but the kid I was taking wanted to see Beverely Hills Chihuahua so we did that instead. It was great! I highly recommend it.
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