Merry Madagascar

2009

Merry Madagascar

6.6 | en | Animation

Merry Madagascar is a Christmas special first broadcast on the NBC network on November 17, 2009, which starred the characters from the Madagascar film series. The story appears to take place sometime between the first and second film. It features many of the same voices from the film, including Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Carl Reiner provided the voice of Santa Claus.

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EP1 Merry Madagascar

Nov. 17,2009

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6.6 | en | Animation , Family | More Info

Released: 2009-11-17 | Released Producted By: DreamWorks Animation , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Carl Reiner , Chris Rock , Ben Stiller

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Cast

Carl Reiner

as Santa (voice)

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Chris Rock

as Marty (voice)

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Ben Stiller

as Alex (voice)

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Reviews

SnoopyStyle The gang is leaving Madagascar on their home-made balloon when Julien and his lemur subjects shoot them down. They're actually shooting for the red night goblin. When coal starts raining down, Alex fires the shot that takes down the goblin who turns out to be Santa Claus. The reindeers leave after fighting with the penguins over the cold war between north and south poles. The concussed Santa decides to stay with the lemurs. The gang decides to deliver the gifts themselves pulled by the penguins flying with magic dust.This is a Christmas TV special. The great thing is that the characters are what they are supposed to be. Julien would definitely shoot down Santa Claus. This has all the main Madagascar characters. The penguins have a lot of fun. This is solid work from the family friendly franchise.

Prismark10 Merry Madagascar is a made for television special that sees the zoo animals trying to escape Madagascar and get back to their zoo in New York before Christmas.They try to escape by a hot air balloon which is shot down by King Julius and his band of lemurs who mistake them for the Red night goblin.This is because every year on December 24th someone flies through the sky showering coals at Julius. Alex the lion shoots down this villain and discover that its is Santa Claus and he now has amnesia.Alex and the gang have to save Christmas by delivering the presents and reindeer's and penguins need to put their old rivalry aside.The animation short, it is only about 20 minutes long and is a festive cash in but their is enough pizazz in the story to keep the young ones interested with a dash of Romeo and Juliet thrown in as the penguins with the help of magic dust help the animals deliver the presents.The animation is rather vanilla but good enough for a television special and DVD extra.

rbn_lrk-1 The Penguins of Madagascar movie finally seems real.Anyway, I remember that the script of Merry Madagascar was leaked before this short.Santa crashes on Madagascar, and he can't remember he is Santa.It's like Muppets Takes Manhattan where Kermit can't remember who he was after being ran Down by a car.The penguins including Alex and his friends must go out to save Christmas.Travelling from Greenland to New York City.Later on are Alex having a foresight of the fourth movie.The middle of last decade had rows of animated movies with crude jokes, cute animals and pop culture references.Shrek and Madagascar was some of those that survived it.I recommend animation fans to find this movie somewhere.9/10

TheLittleSongbird I enjoyed the Madagascar movies and I love The Penguins of Madagascar, so I naturally wanted to see this festive special. And overall, I enjoyed it very much and even preferred it marginally over the movies. I admit I wasn't keen on the animation of Santa and one or two characters are a little bland, but overall it was very enjoyable, with a nice heart warming story and some very funny writing from especially the Penguins and King Julien(who almost steals the show throughout).The animation is nice, vibrant and colourful and the music is great, I especially liked King Julien's take on Santa Claus is Coming to Town, that was funny. The characters in general are fine, Melman isn't given much to do, same with some of the reindeer, but I loved the Penguins and King Julien and Alex and Gloria were nice to watch. And the voice acting is top notch. Merry Madagascar also moves quickly so it never feels boring. Overall, thoroughly enjoyable and kept me amused constantly. 8/10 Bethany Cox