A Born Free movie by any other name

Yesterday, I watched the latest animation film that hit Metro Manila. In this movie four fauna from the New York Zoo find themselves, through a series of odd events, in the wilds of Madagascar, basically an cartoon films about domesticated animals in the wild a fish-out-of-water story.


The four New Yorkers ham it up and survive in the wild. The movie is full of slapstick and comedic tributes to the movie Born Free, Hawaii Five-O and Louis Armstrong's song "What A Wonderful World". The Born Free and Hawaii Five-O homage was clearly done for the adults in the audience since it would be rare for anyone above thirty to remember the movie or the theme Born Free and Steve Magaret's Hawaii Five-0, I could be wrong.

The animation was as expected flawless and the entermaint value light. It will not emulate the critical success of Shrek.

It is entertaining in a mainstream and standard Hollywood fare type of movie way, look out for the antics of the penguins and the lemurs. And do not leave till you see the end credits.

SPOILER comment -

The enemies of the lemurs were called Foosah. Is that a rehashing of our word for cat Pusa?

What I do find disturbing is the trend of most film today to rely on flash to sell the story.

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