Penguins of Madagascar

2014
U
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

106K

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Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

106K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,638

964

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Awards
- 8 nominations

Skipper
(voice)

Chris Miller

Kowalski
(voice)

Christopher Knights

Private
(voice)

Conrad Vernon

Rico
(voice)

John Malkovich

Dave
(voice)

Benedict Cumberbatch

Agent Classified
(voice)

Ken Jeong

Short Fuse
(voice)

Annet Mahendru

Eva
(voice)

Peter Stormare

Corporal
(voice)

Andy Richter

Mort
(voice)

Danny Jacobs

King Julien
(voice)

Sean Charmatz

Cricket
(voice)

Werner Herzog

Documentary Filmmaker
(voice)

Stephen Kearin

Pilot
(voice)
…

Kelly Cooney Cilella

Mermaid Penguin
(voice)
(as Kelly Cooney)

Susan Fitzer

Antarctic Penguin
(voice)

Chris Sanders

Antarctic Penguin
(voice)

Emily Nordwind

Antarctic Penguin
(voice)

Storyline

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Trivia
(at around 42 mins) When Kowalski says "Nope, I still can't read", it's a reference to the first Madagascar (2005) where he says "Sorry Skipper, I can't read" when the sign says the ship is going to Africa.

Goofs
(at around 21 mins) Venice has no roads for automobiles. The truck loaded with watermelons would not be in a city accessible only by boat or foot.

Quotes
Dave: Charlize, they're on the ray! Helen, hunt them down! William, hurt them! Halle, bury them! Hugh! Jack! Man the battle stations! Kevin! Bake on! We're still going to need that victory cake!

Crazy credits
When the film begins, a glacier calves (breaks off ice) to reveal the Dreamworks Animation logo, the logo portion then calves again to replace the boy holding the fishing pole with the four penguins standing on each others' shoulders.

Connections
Featured in Film '72: Episode dated 2 December 2014 (2014)

Soundtracks
Afro Circus / I Like To Move It
Written by Chris Rock, Erick Morillo and Mark Quashie
Performed by Chris Rock and Danny Jacobs

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Featured review

8/10

Good spin off

I didn't think I would like this as much or that it would be and feel as good as it did. It's not easy with spin-offs, the characters are there, but can you make a movie with them that can hold up? Obviously you can, which is something I expected (and expect) from the Minions movie, but not really from the Penguins.

While it's a kids movie, it also has a lot to offer for adults to. Which every good kids movie is doing nowadays of course. The story is pretty thin, but we get a couple of new people involved and of course an "enemy" we have to engage with. The ending might feel like a letdown for some (to some more than to others), but overall the movie did achieve what it set out to do.