Penguins of Madagascar

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Penguins of Madagascar

PG

2014

1h 32m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Plucky penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) -- the most elite spies ever hatched -- join forces with a chic undercover organization known as the North Wind. Led by highly trained, handsome and arrogant Agent Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch), this special interspecies task force must stop a many-tentacled villain, Dr. Octavius Brine (John Malkovich), from destroying the world.

Critics Consensus

Penguins of Madagascar is fast and brightly colored enough to entertain small children, but too frantically silly to offer real filmgoing fun for the whole family.

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Roxana Hadadi

Punch Drunk Critics

01/09/2017

2.5/5

There are enough sight gags and silly jokes in Penguins of Madagascar to make children laugh. But a generation-spanning film, this one isn't.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

01/07/2015

3.5/5

The jokes are never-ending and multilayered, calculated so that adults do not get bored -- which is important, because they buy the tickets. It's all bolted together with precision and good humour, although not much whimsy.

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David Stratton

The Australian

01/07/2015

3/5

Children will probably enjoy them and the animation is of a high standard. More wit and less frenetic action might have given the film more appeal to parents.

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Cory Woodroof

Williamson Home Page

02/11/2022

This spin off is a breezy good time chocked full of smart humor and a nicely developed story.

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Nick Levine

NME (New Musical Express)

05/26/2021

3/5

Penguins of Madagascar is a reasonably diverting romp featuring a few visually arresting set-pieces, including a fun scene showing the penguins aboard gondolas in Venice, but there's not really enough here to keep grown-ups fully engaged...

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

02/02/2021

4/5

Good, zany fun. No lessons will be learned, no morals taught, nothing gained but a good time at the movies.

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 2d

OK spin-off has funny moments, isn’t particularly memorable or meaningful. Penguins of Madagascar is fine. It goes quite off the rails of the original premise of Madagascar, but so did the 2008 TV show, and it offers enough fun and solid jokes to entertain enough. But it’s just not particularly memorable, doesn’t leave much of an impact at all, and I don’t care to ever watch it again. It’s not bad. Just not really my thing.

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Penguin O

@Teepeetrailers Feb 17

Skipper: Kowalski, analysis! Kowalski: This film is near perfection, definitely better than the already-great main Madagascar films. If I must explain why, then I will. The humor is just so good, the characters are all really interesting, the plot of intriguing, there is a good emotional part, the animation is some of the best out there (Why did you stop doing films looking this real, Dreamworks?!), and...the music by Lorne Balfe is Top Notch. Skipper: That's music to my ears. And the bad news? Kowalski: It wasn't a big box office hit, so it never got a sequel, and it also made PDI have to shut down. It was only a matter of time before... Skipper: Okay, okay. That's enough. Thank you, Kowalski.

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Par H

@Parhwy Feb 7

I love this film by DreamWorks (2014) so much that it’s best to say what I don’t like. One thing is the title, the "… of Madagascar" part. Yes, they were in that film. Yes, less people may have seen it than not had the title simple been Penguins. And yet, no. The other thing I do not like is that Private is treated poorly… for ten years. Yes, they adore him, yes, they break into Fort Knox to get him Cheesy Dibbles and yet… Skipper treats him like a kid for a decade? It’s kind of cruel considering he verbally articulates his aspirations and is ignored. Are Rico and Kowalski complicit? Yes, they are. Well, Rico is an inarticulate savant. Kowalski often prods Skipper with truths. Sadly, the story and its outcome hinges on Private being recognised as an equal only after winning the day. He has more in common with Dave. Perhaps that’s the point: Don’t rebel against being ignored and become a vengeful psychopath – shut up, stay in your lane and one day you may get a chance to shine.

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Tripp J

@Tripp317 Jan 30

It’s nice at all but some scenes that aren’t the best. Like what they do to the penguins

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Peyton W

@CCHS_Football_2834 Jan 22

This movie get's pretty sus but it's my fav childhood movie ever!

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Verril Manuel Agintha Ginting V

@Verril Jan 18

Madagascar Spin-off is Pretty Alright!!

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Dr. Octavius Brine

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Synopsis

Plucky penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) -- the most elite spies ever hatched -- join forces with a chic undercover organization known as the North Wind. Led by highly trained, handsome and arrogant Agent Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch), this special interspecies task force must stop a many-tentacled villain, Dr. Octavius Brine (John Malkovich), from destroying the world.

Director: Eric Darnell, Simon J. Smith
Producer: Lara Breay, Mark Swift
Screenwriter: Michael Colton, John Aboud, Brandon Sawyer
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: PDI, DreamWorks Animation
Rating: PG (Some Rude Humor|Mild Action)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 26, 2014, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $83.3M
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos

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