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Name: Madagascar
Director: Eric Darnell
Genre: adventure, animation, comedy, family
Released: 2005
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Rating: 6.9

Madagascar has an iRankMovies score of 62.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Madagascar (2005)

They weren't born in the wild... They were shipped there.

Release:2005

Runtime:1h 26m

Country:United States

Director:Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Language:English

Genre

AdventureAnimationComedy

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Keywords

friendship Island EscapeAfricaLionZooHippopotamusGiraffe

iRank63

Madagascar rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.9/10· 474K votes

Rotten Tomatoes55%

Metacritic57%

TMDb6.923/10· 12K votes

With 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.9/10 on IMDb and 57/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Madagascar

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.

Cast of Madagascar

Ben Stiller
as Alex (voice)
Chris Rock
as Marty (voice)
David Schwimmer
as Melman (voice)
Jada Pinkett Smith
as Gloria (voice)
Sacha Baron Cohen
as King Julien (voice)
Cedric the Entertainer
as Maurice (voice)
Andy Richter
as Mort (voice)
Tom McGrath
as Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway (voice)
Christopher Knights
as Private (voice)
Chris Miller
as Kowalski (voice)
Conrad Vernon
as Mason (voice)
Eric Darnell
as Zoo Announcer / Lemur #1 / Fossa / Subway Car Announcer (voice)

Madagascar facts

Budget: $75M
Box office: $542.1M
Collection: Madagascar Collection

Our take on Madagascar

This 2005 DreamWorks animated comedy sends four pampered friends from New York's Central Park Zoo tumbling into the wild after their bid for freedom lands them shipwrecked on Madagascar. Co-directed by Eric Darnell, the adventure trades zoo comforts for jungle chaos, mining laughs from spoiled city animals forced to reckon with instincts they never knew they had. The humor is fast and broad, aimed squarely at kids but sprinkled with asides for parents, and the bright, elastic animation keeps things bouncing. Families after an undemanding, energetic romp with a likeable cast and plenty of slapstick will be well served; expect silliness over depth, which is exactly the point.

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