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	Sunday, June 12, 2005

Madagascar  (Reviews) It is a great movie. It tells of four animals who lived in the zoo in bliss but yearned to go out to see the 'world'. It is an entertaining comedy.  Sometimes when you see comedies, it discourages you when you hear trite or overused jokes. Here the humor is fresh and original. But what endears I think is that you can identify with the characters because you see in them the characteristics of many people you know today ---   brash, loud, short-sighted, friendly, unappreciative of what they have and funny ....  These characters, described as 'New Yorkers' are now really found everywhere in the world.  We are now all in some way, consumers and practitioners of American junk. Then there are the penguins -- psychos they are called , because they prefer to live in the tropical country and get a tan... There is Alex, the lion, who cannot get over losing his 'steak', and there is Marty, the Zebra who feels that there is more to life than being contended and 'filled', and there is the giraffe and the hippo whose main mission in life is to find identity by  logging along with their friends... Interesting, original, entertaining.  But most important, we see ourselves in the characters and story that they spun. Five stars out of five.   5:44:00 PM     comment []   trackback []