"Madagascar"

This animated movie was released by Dreamworks in 2005. It's about a group of New York zoo animals who end up on a tropical island, in the wild, after falling off of a container ship. There is a group of four friends; a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, and a hippo. There's also a group of commando penguins. And there's a colony of fun loving lemurs. There's also the villains, a group of cat type predators who prey on the lemurs.

The movie is about friendship and working together through hardships. There's comedy, warm feelings, hurt feelings, fear, broken dreams, and dreams fulfilled. The penguins provide comedic relief on a mostly separate story line.

The Bottom Line
This is a very fun movie and I highly recommend it. The humor will be hard for younger children to understand and there are moments of apparent peril for our heroes, so I would not show it to younger audiences. I did not let my four year-old watch it, though he asked to. He would have had a ton of questions and possibly nightmares as a result.