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[kingandy]

Has just watched Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (cunningly titled because though technically a sequel you don't actually have to have seen the original - everything you need to know is recapped at the beginning).

The CGI, though by now par for the course, is stunning. Perhaps it helps that the animals are stylised, but the substance of the thing looks real. The fur looks furry. The water looks wet. In parts one could be forgiven for thinking it was stop-frame animation, or that the backgrounds were filmed from life. Also: Monkey-powered ornithopter with conning tower and banana overdrive! What is not to love.

Well ... actually, what's not to love is the amount of stuff that was in there simply because it tested well in the original. Notably That Bloody Song and the elderly lady. Oh and almost King Racism but I guess he did sort of drive the plot along and it was at least in character and plausible. Shades of MiB 2, but only shades. And such shiny shades.

Most of all, though, I liked the orchestral hip-hop.

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[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

My amte Joe The Gerbil King, for reasons only he understands, spent a year thinking Madagascar was a tense political thriller*. He's a bit peculiar sometimes.

It was fun for the first time in like four years to meet you "in the field" while actually playing something that could stop and talk. Still haven't seen your Other Half yet in the flesh. There's always next event I guess ...

*Presumably explaining why he had not watched it. Though with Joe, he might have watched it and still mistook it for a tense political thriller. He's like that sometimes ...

[kingandy]

The Other Half was unfortunately absent this weekend, though it was such a very big field that I would not be surprised had you missed him. There were several people I did not see all weekend who I'm reasonably sure were actually there.

I think perhaps Joe has been thinking of Syriana. That or Sahara.