I have not seen the movie but my first encounter with it, its poster, made me wonder whether Dreamworks is going to sue Disney for copying Madagascar. Come on! A lion and a (suffering) giraffe going crazy after running out of the New York zoo!

Then, I had a look at the movie’s page on Yahoo! Movies and just by looking at the still pictures, you know the graphics are hideous (and not in line with the poster!). It looks like the guys at Disney who created the lion for Narnia thought it could be reused. I watched the scene available (a curling game) and it wasn’t even funny and reinforced my opinion on the graphics.

That and the competition of the sequel of the Ice Age coming out now lead to believe that this will be a flop. Disney took the right – and only possible – decision in buying Pixar. People have been saying that Pixar has been lucky rolling out only successful movies but I think that the problems Dreamworks Animation and Disney CG unit have been facing only exemplifies that it is as hard to do good CG animated movies as other type of movies. I was doubtful of the next Pixar film (Cars) but having seen the trailer I think they have another winner in their hands.

So, I can’t wait to go watch Ice Age 2, the Meltdown with Raquel next week-end once she joins me here for my last week in the US – that’s what caring husbands do I guess. And for now, I’ll keep myself entertained (hopefully) with the Inside Man this evening before really getting things going on my second year project report tonight (Steve, if your read me…). Got to go now!