New York, May 30th, 2005
MOVIES The Zoo Story Madagascar starts off with a sense of fun-but runs out of steam when it leaves New York. MADAGASCAR DREAMWORKS ANIMATION SKG. PG. MADAGASCAR, BEFORE IT arrives in Madagascar, creates a highly amusing, blissfully idealized vision of Manhattan, starting with the Central Park Zoo. That's where we meet our main characters : Marty, a grumpy chatterbox of a zebra (voiced by Chris Rock), his complacent lion pal Alex (Ben Stiller), a hypochondriac giraffe named Melman (David Schwimmer at his most Eeyore-ishly sonorous), and Gloria the clever hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett Smith)...
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