Having not been the biggest Madagascar movies fan, this third movie
came as a bit as a surprise to me. It was much better and more fun than
basically the two previous installments combined.
Thing I mostly disliked about the previous two movies, was that they
felt rushed and had two much jumping around and bright colors in it. It
didn't seemed all that worried about telling a fun story or having
impressive looking animations in them. They thought that simple,
childish actions and comedy would be enough to draw in a big crowd. And
I guess they were right about it but it didn't exactly made them good
movies to watch, at least not to me.
This third movie feels far more well thought out. Everything was
written far better and all of the comedy was being much more clever and
got executed better in the movie. I can even actually actually say that
most of the comedy and gags really hits and the movie had me smiling
and laughing, basically the whole time.
It also definitely makes all of the characters work out as much better
ones. In the previous movies they all had something annoying to them as
well but that's all truly gone in this film! They are all simply
amusing and the movie introduces a whole bunch of new fun characters as
well this time. This also has as a result that there is no time and
room for any distracting side-plots, featuring either Marty (Chris
Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) or Gloria Jada Pinkett Smith. It makes
the movie feel more balanced and focused, since there aren't really too
many distractions from its main story this time around.
But even though that the story story is far better written, I really
can't say that the movie is being anything too brilliant with its
actual story. It's all being some incredibly formulaic stuff but at
least they knew how to make things fun and the story really doesn't
feel that important for the movie at all. The story leaves plenty of
room and opportunities for fun and gags, involving all of the
characters, new and old ones.
Also the animations seemed to be more smooth, as if they decided to
spend some more money and/or to put some more time into the making of
this movie this time. Some great choices, that helped me to finally
truly love a Madagascar movie and made me interested in actually seeing
more Madagascar movies now. I most definitely would rather want to see
another Madagascar movie than a new Shrek, that's for sure!
A really fun movie to watch, I'm surprised to say.
8/10
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