Madagascar (2005 film)
Madagascar is a computer-animated cartoon. It was created under the working title "Wildlife" in the DreamWorks Animation Studios, which especially with the Shrek series and the film Shark Tale - celebrated successes Small fish. 240 employees worked for four years at the completion of the film. In Germany saw him more than 6.5 million moviegoers.
Action
Four New York Zoo animals - the adventure -loving Marty the zebra, the vain Leo Alex, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the diva-like hippo lady do after Marty's 10th birthday, the streets outside the Central Park Zoo uncertain. Only recently was the brash Marty of the four penguins Skipper, Private, Kowalski and Rico been persuaded to this escape plan, because actually are Gloria, Melman and Alex, all the spoils at the zoo, this project very skeptical about. After a long night, they spend, especially on the run from the police, the four friends and the group of penguins and the chimpanzees Mason and Phil are in wooden crates on a ship in the direction of Kenya 's National Park again.
After the conspiratorial penguins take control of the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria stranded on Madagascar. Soon remember the pampered animals, as it really is to live in the wilderness. They quickly learn to know a group of lemurs, which are at first afraid, mainly because of the predator's Alex, but quickly realize that they have nothing to fear from them.
Julien, King of the Lemurs, is already planning to use the " New York Giants " as a defense against the Fossas.
But everything changes when Alex hungrier and hungrier, remembers his hunting instinct and no inhibitions, even to nibble his friends. But most of all he wants to just go home in the Central Park Zoo to be fed regularly and to enjoy his stardom.
In the end, it is possible to friends, to get both Alex's feeding instinct with fish in the handle to escape and the Fossas. Since the penguins have returned from Antarctica, the troupe prepares for the departure to the zoo. However, the tank of the vessel is empty.
Synchronization
The German dubbing of the film took over the Berliner Synchron AG in Berlin.
There are German trailer with other voice actors. What is striking is the consistency of the voice of Ben Stiller ( Oliver Rohrbeck ) and that the penguins are not spoken by the Fantastic Four. Aired on TV Trailer ( TV Spot ) agrees with the voice actors used for the film. Santiago Ziesmer, voice actor of SpongeBob SquarePants, has a guest role as a synchronous spider sitting in the jungle on Alex's back.
Reviews
Rico Pfirstinger writes for the movie magazine Cinema: " Madagascar" is not a new and largely dispenses with the usual in this genre moral messages " Finding Nemo ". No great movie - but great fun.
From the Film Review Board Wiesbaden ( FBW), the film was given the rating of particular value. In their statement the assessment body called the film " technically perfect" and sees it as " compelling family entertainment designed with ingenuity and wit ."
Music
The film contains three more times played songs. One is a Theme from New York, New York, the (both) ( Marty only ) sing the two friends Alex and Marty both at the zoo and on the island. In the scene of the first reunion of Marty and Alex in Madagascar, the theme song is played from the hour of the winner of the Greek composer Vangelis. Another well-known song is I Like To Move It by Reel 2 Real from 1994. This is the party anthem of the lemurs and is also played in the credits. The third title is the nature of the resulting 1966 film Born Free - Born Free. It is presented at the beginning of the film in Marty's dream sequence with singing. It is then repeatedly alluded orchestral. Similarly, the theme music of the show, National Geographic is played short, even Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire and Staying alive by the Bee Gees. Furthermore, played What a wounderful world of Louis Armstrong as the original. When Marty's arrival on the island of Hawaii is the theme song to listen to Five-O.
Continuations
Since 13 October 2005, a 11- minute short film called The Madagascar Penguins ran into a pre-Christmas mission as the lead of Wallace & Gromit: On the hunt for the giant rabbit in the cinema. This short film is also available on the Madagascar DVD.
The sequel to Madagascar titled Madagascar 2 ran on 7 November 2008 in the U.S. and on 4 December 2008 in Germany. A separate series of Madagascar Penguins running on German television since April 2009 on Nickelodeon titled The Penguins of Madagascar. 2009, another Christmas special with the title Merry Madagascar was produced. Furthermore, the film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted was released (also in 3D) on October 2, 2012 in Germany.