Madagascar (DVD)

Madagascar is an animated comedy film which was released in 2005. It is suitable for everyone from the little tots right up to Grandma. It's full of colour and fantastic music so it suited me completely. The best part is that you don't have to think when you watch this, you can just relax and enjoy the experience. Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria are a lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo and they live in new York's Central Park Zoo. They are well looked after and lack for nothing and you would think they had a wonderful life but Marty the zebra suffers a mid-life crisis on his tenth birthday and decides to run away. He wanders off to Grand Central Station so ...  Read the complete review

Madagascar is an animated comedy film released in 2005 and made by Dreamworks. ~What's it about?~ The animals in the New York Central Park zoo - Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (voiced by Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (voiced by David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith - live a happy and pampered life - they are fed regularly and enjoy putting on shows for the hoards of daily visitors. On Marty the zebra's tenth birthday however, he begins to feel down, and wonders if there is more to life than living in the zoo. When a group of penguins trying to escape to Antarctica accidentally dig their way ...  Read the complete review

My 3 year old little boy decided to buy this DVD with some of his birthday money. I think he chose it for the nice bright and fun cover as he really hadn't heard much about the film. He is into animals so I thought this would be good for him and his brothers to watch. After sitting down to watch it with them I was very pleased with the entire film. The film involves a group of animals who are living in a zoo in New York's Central Park. When one of the animals decided that he wants to go and discover the places in the world where he should be living he escapes from the zoo and heads off into the big wide world. The other animals go to resue him and they soon ...  Read the complete review

Madagascar is the 2005 animated film from Dreamworks, rival to Disney in animated film production, and maker of the Shrek films and Shark Tale. The Plot For some of the animals in Central Park Zoo, life just is not good enough. They long to be released into the wild. Engineering an escape, four of the animals wind up shipwrecked on exotic Madagascar. As they meet the inhabitants of the island and struggle with power between themselves, this animated comedy takes one disastrous turn after another. The Cast and Performances There are some famous names lending their voices to the film, most notably Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David ...  Read the complete review

Madagascar was one of those films that I really wanted to go and see at the cinema but nobody would come with me and my sister had already been to see it so I had to wait for the video. My sister bought it me for Christmas so I couldn’t wait to watch it and it was great and then I watched it again last night and loved it again and here is why. ----- What is the film about? (Reading from the back of the box) When four pampered animals from New York’s Central Park Zoo accidently find themselves shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar, they discover it really is a jungle out there. Verdict on the ...  Read the complete review