Jackson Booth-Millard The penguins of the three Madagascar movies very often stole the scenes that they appeared in, so it was almost inevitable that they would be given their own spin-off movie, they did have some straight-to-DVD stuff, but this was am official cinema release. Basically in Antarctica, penguin brothers Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller) and Rico (Conrad Vernon) save an unhatched penguin egg from a pack of leopard seals, the egg hatches, and they name their member Private (Christopher Knights), they also accidentally send themselves adrift on an iceberg. Ten years later, after the events of Europe's Most Wanted, the penguins decide to leave the circus to celebrate Private's birthday, but Private has recently started to feel out of place with the team. Suddenly, the penguins are abducted by a machine and sent to Venice, Italy by renowned geneticist Dr. Octavius Brine. The doctor reveals his true identity, he is actually an octopus named Dave (John Malkovich), who has grown resentful of penguins, because of their cuteness it caused him to become shunned in every zoo and aquarium he was taken to across the world. Rico swallows Dave's collection of snow globes, and a canister of a green substance called the Medusa Serum, before the penguins escape and are chased by henchmen. When cornered, they are rescued by a group of Arctic animals, an undercover task force agency called "The North Wind", led by a gray wolf whose name is Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch), along with demolitionist harp seal Short Fuse (Ken Jeong), polar bear Corporal (Peter Stormare), and intelligent snowy owl Eva (Annet Mahendru). Dave manages to hack their hideout communication systems, he reveals he has a large supply of Medusa Serum and intends to capture all penguins across the world at the places he was kicked out. Seeing the penguins as a hindrance to their mission, the North Wind tranquilise the penguins and send them to the most remote location possible, which happens to be Madagascar. But the penguins wake up mid-flight and crash land in the Sahara Desert, they manage to make their way to Shanghai, China, which they mistake for Dublin, Ireland. Using the collection of snow globes swallowed by Rico, they determine the order of locations Dave plans to travel to, they ship themselves to their current location and make their way to the zoo. Once there, Private winds up captured with the Shanghai penguins, the North Wind try to put a stop to the villain's plan, but the penguins intervene, allowing Dave to escape, but Private has a tracking device planted by Classified. On the island, Dave demonstrates his way to mutate penguins into hideous monsters, causing humans to be disgusted by them, part of his plan of revenge. Skipper and Classified argue about the best way to rescue the captives and stop Dave, they eventually settle on Classified's plan, a frontal assault, with Skipper and the others acting as a diversion. After escaping apparent disintegration from a faulty mutation ray demonstration by Dave, Private rescues the captured North Wind members, meanwhile Dave turns on his ray and mutates all penguins into hideous monsters, the brainwashed penguins run amok on terrified humans. Private finds Skipper, Kowalski and Rico mutated, he decides to connect himself to the ray to return them to normal, and they manage to turn all penguins back to normal with one giant blast. Private has been left partially mutated (he is turned back later), while Dave has been turned into a pipsqueak version of himself trapped inside a snow globe. In the end, Classified respects the penguins as equals and promises them anything they want, they get their own jet packs and fly off to their next adventure. Also starring Andy Richter as Mort the mouse lemur, Danny Jacobs as King Julien XIII the ring-tailed lemur and Werner Herzog as the Documentary Filmmaker. The leading characters we know are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, the new additions to the cast are good as well, obviously the animation is fantastic, and to be fair there were some amusing jokes, even the name puns ("Nicolas! Cage them!" and "Charlize, they're on the ray!"), but as with Madagascar they do not have quite enough charm, an average animated family comedy adventure. Okay!

invisibleunicornninja This is a really dumb movie that knows that its dumb. To enjoy this movie, you're going to need to suspend your disbelief for a bit. Though it might seem like I didn't enjoy this nonsense, I actually did. This movie is funny and absurd and most people will enjoy it. I'm not saying that this is a good movie - but it is funny and entertaining and there is a lot of fun animation here. I'd recommend watching it. Not over and over again on repeat, but if you're bored, this is worth watching.

adonis98-743-186503 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. Penguins of Madagascar is a spin-off of the Madagascar Trilogy and although none of the main protagonists appear the movie works on it's own thanks to a great use of humor but also some pretty cool action sequences Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified does a really great job and i loved that scene with him and Skipper when he started eating and he always interrupted him that was a hilarious scene and a lot of stuff happen like the Penguins turn into something else that i don't wanna spoil if you haven't seen the film and unlike the horrible Minions film this is an actual spin-off that works because all 4 of this characters are both interesting and funny and not some yellow short annoying things that make sounds for the whole movie.

rbn_lrk-1 It all started ten years ago.The penguins from the first Madagascar movie stole the show.Then the penguins became the ingredient of the Madagascar trilogy, and the specials.Also including their own TV show.Now last year the audience got their penguins movie.This time the heroes tells about their past, and faces the villain in the shape of an octopus.The heroes teams up with some new characters too.In animation it is top notch.There are a lot of cool gadgets too.The humor is the classic slapstick.It's not the best movie of last Winter, but some light fun.8/10