4/3/2024 0 Comments Penguin movie madagascarThis makes “Penguins of Madagascar” a surprising slip for the studio, which usually has its animation ducks in a row - or dragons, or pandas, or Shreks. It reflects the sort of pop cultural multilayering for which DreamWorks Animation has come to be known. Cut to the film crew that is shooting it. Werner Herzog, whose documentary “Encounters at the End of the World,” took a rather more serious look at the region, provides ponderous narration. Typical is the opening shot in Antarctica, with penguins making a lemming-like march to a hole in the ice. The animation itself is madcap crazy in weaving together tight scrapes and cultural references. The screenplay was in the hands of the TV and film writing team John Aboud and Michael Colton, plus Brandon Sawyer, an Emmy-winning staff writer on “The Penguins of Madagascar” TV series. Octavius Brine, is a purple octopus with a bruised ego and brilliantly brought to life in one of those great arranged marriages between animation creativity and voice agility - in this case John Malkovich providing the verbal theatricsĪnimation veterans are in charge, starting with directors Eric Darnell (the “Madagascar” films) and Simon J.
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