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Before I talk about the movie let me just talk about this for a minute. The Star wars force awakens trailer is freaking awesome! I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan and by that I mean I don't worship at the alter of Star Wars, they didn't change how I looked at anything, heck I didn't even know they were that Iconic and that sacred until I was thirteen. I was more of Planet of the apes and Back to the future and Doctor who science fiction worshiper. I still liked the original trilogy and I even liked the prequel for entertainment reasons but I have to say the new trailer got me really excited and it looked really cool with my favorite parts being seeing John Boyega and Oscar Isaac (go see Attack the block and inside Lewlyn Davis) in seemingly lead roles and the effects for the millennium falcon flying which looked stunning. I am also glad this had no scenes with the old cast because my main fear was that it would be nothing but a Nostalgia fest with all the new ideas shoved into the corner. Yet this trailer gives me hope and really does excite me.
Now back to the movie.
Penguins of Madagascar is an animated spin-off about the penguins Skipper, Private, Rico, and Kowalski who must stop the evil octopus Dave from turning all of the worlds penguins into monsters and team up with the North Wind squad of the wolf leader C.L.A.S.S.I.F.I,E,D , a seal named Short Fuse, Kowalski's new crush an owl named Eva, and a penguin loving polar bear named Corporal. I love this movie.
First off the animation and voice acting is great. The animation is not as unique as Book of life but it lends itself to some really great facial expressions and lends itself to some really tight, really fast action you can see and is very creative and fun to watch. The voice acting in this movie is also really good, the voice actors especially from McGarth, Miller, Vernon and Knight, Malkovitch (who plays Dave and I did not recognize at all) and Cumberbatch (classified.) You can hear that all the actors are having fun. When they are called to be expressive and show emotion everyone delivers giving off some really good personalities to what would be some very stereotypical an d one-note characters.
The best part of the movie is for the most part the writing. Mainly the comedic writing, this movie is funny, entertaining and wonderful because of the way it's written. The jokes very much hit for the most part, with some very funny gags, jokes and cutaways. The movie overall is just crazy from the plot about turning the worlds penguins into hideous monsters just so no one will love them, to some other stuff in the movie such as how the penguins avoid dying from falling out of a jet and some other stuff I don't want to spoil makes it sound like the writers for this movie either each wrote a few pages then handed it off to the next guy to write a few more pages and pass it off until they got to the end or they did a bunch of drugs. In anyone else's hands this movie would have crashed and burned but with the direction and the pace of this movie it turned out to be great and so much fun.
The main bad part about this movie like the book of life (and really a couple of the dreamworks movies in general) is they try to shoe horn a message into this movie that makes no sense and kind of changes from scene to scene when really they would have been fine if they just made this a straight comedy. It doesn't bother me so much hear than in something like the book of life is one A.) Expectations- I had way higher expectation for Book of life than I did for this movie but mostly B.) The writers for the movie spread out the "message" throughout the movie where as The Book of Life shoes horns it so much into the last third it feels out of place and weird.
Still it is very jarring and very much unneeded when it gets brought up
I give this movie a 8/10- Despite the message it's one of the best comedies of the year in my opinion just from how insane and hilarious it is with great voice actors, great actions and fun characters as well.
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