A lively and exuberant animation: Penguins Of Madagascar Review
THE scene-stealing penguins from the Madagascar movies get promoted to top billing in Penguins of Madagascar, a lively and exuberant animation that careens around the world but doesn’t exactly lodge in your heart.
Penguins Of Madagascar: A lively and exuberant animation
Penguins Of Madagascar
(U, 91mins)
Directors: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Voices: Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, John Malkovich
On a quest to defeat jealous “Dave the Octopus” (John Malkovich) who is rounding up the world’s penguins to uglify them with a secret weapon, our penguin heroes led by the plucky Skipper (Tom McGrath) zip from California to Venice to Rio, Shanghai and New York.
Penguins of Madagascar Official Trailer #2 (2014) Benedict Cumberbatch Movie HD (1)
The action is non-stop and quite fun but the plot’s a little simplistic and it’s too crowded with characters for us to overly care about anyone in particular. The jokes are on the weak side too. Benedict Cumberbatch voices an undercover operative wolf named Agent Classified.