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88The outcomes of all the mini-dramedies are too messy and equivocal to produce morals; that's just as it should be in a farce about confusion. Co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath are most intent on completing the circle of comedy.
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75This is a brighter, more engaging film than the original "Madagascar."
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75The visual style is typical, ultra crisp computer animation, bright, sharp, somewhat clinical.
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75A nice surprise, surpassing the quality of the first film.
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75The rare sequel that is better than the original.
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75Escape 2 Africa is pretty tame, but it knows how to keep its own turf tidy.
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75The film shoehorns in every memorable character from the original film.
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70Cartoons can get away with being serviceable and skillful without much creativity since they have an endlessly renewing audience. "Mad 2" surfs along on such waves, entertaining youngsters while mildly amusing adults.
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Funniest movie of '08? Close enough, for those who don't mind monkeying around.
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70Lively and quite funny without being obnoxious, this follow-up smoothly mixes the original's New York Zoo escapees with a number of engaging new characters.
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70The roots are shallow, but the sequel is good-natured, high-spirited and perfectly enjoyable if you take it for what it is.
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70Lessons about family loyalty, tolerance, ingenuity, and sacrifice add depth to the screenplay by Etan Cohen and directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, but thankfully don't detract from the lunatic maneuvers of a delusional lemur king (Sacha Baron Cohen) and those wily spheniscidae.
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Young children will enjoy this piece of sweet cartoon candy.
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63More animals don't necessarily translate to more fun and laughter, at least not when it comes to animated sequels.
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63If Madagascar 2 is the best Dreamworks can provide to go toe-to-toe with Pixar's beautiful WALL*E, then it's game, set and match to the Disney subsidiary.
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60Dilutes the idea some by giving every four-legged hero a story arc. And there's not enough of the first movie's super-erudite monkeys. Yet the sitcom-style silliness is still there, and it's nice to see that the old "grin or frown as you wave a hand across your face" joke still has cross-generational, and cross-species, appeal.
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60Let's not lose sight of what's really been accomplished here. Alex and Marty – just like Batman and Robin, Fred and Barney, and Snagglepuss – are welcome additions to the gay animation pantheon.
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60A pleasing and pretty enough re-run, just that bit diminished.
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50A by-the-numbers follow-up to the highly successful 2005 feature that was no great shakes to begin with.
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50Take the flat tire that was "Madagascar." Retread it with "The Lion King" storyline. Pump it up with air. Now you have Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
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50The movie suffers from a serious case of unoriginality.
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50Fails to drum up much excitement.
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50Good enough in patches to make its distracting star turns, storybook clichés and stereotypes harder to take than they would be in a less enjoyable movie.
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50Epitomizes the best and the worst of what animated filmmaking has become in an era dominated on the one hand by ever more sophisticated computerized imagery and, on the other, by the grasping, increasingly grating desire to be hip.
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25When it comes to time-wasting memory games, crossword puzzles are more fun than this movie.
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