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This movie isn't meant for me, but I can see those it is meant for enjoying it tremendously. And while I wouldn't call it good, I think it accomplishes its purpose for the most part. It's something that is to be quick and easily digested for families. It has no real grand ambitions of being considered among the best that animated films has to offer. This movie doesn't pretend to be anything it's not. Well that's what this feels like except, obviously, it was released in theaters.
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Nickelodeon, where this series airs, with some of their previous animated series, sometimes did a special one-hour episode that was treated like a TV movie.

Perhaps the only thing holding this back, in my view, is that it really feels an extension of the TV series as opposed to a full-on, standalone film. Maybe they'll love 90 minutes of insufferable, incessant and incoherent babbling.

I think people who love the Minions are gonna be in for a rude awakening. And so, in a way, it taught me to be a better director just from stepping in the shoes of recording voiceover.At the very least, unlike the upcoming Minions movie, this is a spin-off that, while not truly necessary, these are actual characters and not just insufferable and gimmicky side characters who speak in a nonsensical language. And you're kind of vulnerable as an actor and you kind of need to know the context of the scene: you know, you're being chased by 30 octopi, you enter the scene this way because this just happened. You're in a booth with no sets, there are no costumes. When we record animated films, I don't know if most people realize this, we do all the voice work beforehand and then the animation is done afterwards based off that performance. How playing Skipper has changed his work as a film director

And so parents aren't watching their watches there's something for everybody in it. There's no reason a family can't go to a movie together and enjoy it. And he would laugh at some jokes and you would laugh at others. I remember in the days of Saturday morning, you could get up at 5:30 in the morning, eat your cereal with your dad and watch Bugs Bunny. On making movies that appeal to both parents and kids each one of their personalities became much more distinct. But as we did three films and did three shorts and then they had their own TV show, we were able to develop the characters. A way to give them job security was to embed them in the story, so we thought, "OK, they can inspire the zebra to escape the zoo and then they're forever in the story and they can't be cut!"Īnd, you know, as each film went by, people really loved the penguins, and it was easy because they were just pure comic relief and they didn't have to support a story. They almost didn't make the first movie because they were just in that one scene. On the penguins moving from plot device to their own franchise And I think people got so used to hearing my voice, Jeffrey Katzenberg just said, "You got the part, kid." What I had done was the temporary track, the scratch track, to fill in until Robert Stack, until we were able to get him - and, unfortunately, he passed away. And he would just say, "You, status report!" and it was kind of a poor man's Robert Stack. He was just that '50s tough guy and so the character was kind of one-note, at least for my character Skipper. "And stepping into the shoes of an actor really taught me what's important and what kind of direction people need."įor me and my partner Eric Darnell, we wanted Robert Stack. "It's interesting to be behind the mic, 'cause usually I'm on the other side of the glass," McGrath tells Rath. But his voice turned out to be the one that stuck - first in Madagascar, in which the four penguins inspire animals at a New York zoo to break out, then in a couple of sequels, and now in the penguins' own feature film. 1 choice to voice Skipper in the first film, 2005's Madagascar - he just agreed to temporarily voice tracks while they signed up a star. McGrath explains to NPR's Arun Rath that he wasn't the No. Benedict Cumberbatch voices a wolf who helps four penguins on their spy mission to stop the villain.īut the star of the film, a penguin named Skipper, is voiced by Tom McGrath - who co-directed the first three films in the "Madagascar" franchise, and is an executive producer of the new installment. John Malkovich voices an evil octopus, abducting penguins around the world. The voice actors in Penguins of Madagascar, out Wednesday, include some of the boldface names you might expect on a big-budget animated film. Penguins of Madagascar follows a spy team of penguins, who first appeared in the film series Madagascar, as they work to stymie an evil octopus' plan to take over the world.
