I had heard from my friend Jay that Madagascar and Madagascar 2 are great movies that I would enjoy.  I finally had the opportunity to watch the first one the other night, and while I think it was an OK movie, I wasn’t thoroughly impressed.

I think the penguins were fantastic and could watch a whole movie of just them, but the zebra, lion, giraffe, and hippo storyline just didn’t catch me.  I felt everything from the zoo to the island was really far fetched, but not in the way that would make sense for this movie.

I don’t think my experience with this movie will stop me from watching Madagascar 2, hopefully it will have more of what I liked about Madagascar.

Rating: I think it’s worth renting, if you like this kind of animation, it does have some generally funny moments.

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