It’s just amazing. This is the best example of what this studio can do. Whereas I have never found a bad Pixar movie, the other studios don’t have the same track record. Far from ugly or nonsense movies that I don’t bother to see (like Shark Tales, Valliant, The Polar Express or Sinbad) Madagascar is as great as The Ice Age (that I personally prefer to the Shrek serie).

Technically speaking, there is nothing the CG studios can’t do – just look at the 2 or 3 last Pixar movies. In Madagascar, it’s so good that the only time you notice CG is when you notice how beautiful some effects are: the lion’s hair which evolves during his psychological return journey to predation and the surf breaking on the shores. Just beautiful.

I found the voices to be a great plus, especially Chris Rock, David Schwimmer (the hilarious giraffe) and the Lemur King with his Bombay accent.

The gags (visual, dialogues and situations) are exquisite. However, there is still room for improvements on the scenario side. I’m bored with the classical friendship scenario. Pixar dropped it in The Incredibles but the CG genre is plagued by it!

I should post a comment on all the movies I go and see, or maybe just the good ones. I’ll try to do it more often – I’m a big movie fan so it should show up somewhere on my website…

To conclude, go watch Madagascar – I like to move it / move it, You like to?