Dishes up some very corny jokes, but the images have a brighter-than-life vivacity.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
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 Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
This slight and amusing 'toon is mostly a trip designed for the kiddie crowd to take in.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
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 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 Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Eventually, it had to happen: a computer-animated dud.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Madagascar is funny, especially at the beginning, and good-looking in a retro cartoon way, but in a world where the stakes have been raised by "Finding Nemo," "Shrek" and "The Incredibles," it's a throwback to a more conventional kind of animated entertainment. It'll be fun for the smaller kids, but there's not much crossover appeal for their parents.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Antic, cute, scattershot, it's a remarkable-looking but terribly uncertain bit of CGI fluff, with its richest humor off to the sides of the action and a whole lot of average in the middle.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Madagascar's relaxed density is a relief given the DreamWorks tendency to overbear, overblast, and overcaricaturize.Read Full Review »
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