Madagascar
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Madagascar |
| Original title | Madagascar |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | approx. 83 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Eric Darnell , Tom McGrath |
| script |
Mark Burton , Billy Frolick , Eric Darnell , Tom McGrath |
| production | Mireille Soria |
| music | Hans Zimmer |
| cut |
Clare De Chenu , Mark A. Hester , H. Lee Peterson |
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Madagascar is a computer-animated cartoon that was released in cinemas on May 27, 2005 in the USA and on July 14, 2005 in Germany. It was created under the working title "Wild Life" in the DreamWorks Animation Studios, which celebrated successes above all with the Shrek series and the film Big Sharks - Small Fish . 240 employees worked four years to complete the film. More than 6.5 million cinema viewers saw him in Germany .
action
Four New York zoo animals - the adventure- loving zebra Marty, the vain lion Alex, the hypochondriac giraffe Melman and the diva-like hippo lady Gloria - roam the streets outside of Central Park Zoo after Marty's tenth birthday . Only shortly before that, the cheeky Marty had been persuaded by the four penguins Skipper, Private , Kowalski and Rico to plan this escape, because actually Gloria, Melman and Alex, all spoiled in the zoo, are very skeptical about this plan. After a long night, which they mainly spent on the run from the police, the four friends and the group of penguins and the chimpanzees Mason and Phil find themselves in wooden boxes on a ship heading for Kenya's National Park.
After the conspiratorial penguins took control of the ship and the wooden boxes of the captured animals fell off the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria were stranded in Madagascar . Soon the spoiled animals notice what it really is like to live in the wild . You meet a group of lemurs , who are fearful at first, mainly because of the predator Alex, but quickly realize that they have nothing to fear from the zoo animals. Julien, the king of the lemurs, even wants to use the " New York Giants " as a defense against the lemurs' predators, the fossas .
As Alex gets hungrier and hungrier, he remembers his hunting instinct and even fantasizes about eating his best friend Marty. Most of all, he would just like to go home to the zoo, where he is regularly fed and can enjoy his stardom.
In the end, the friends manage to get a grip on Alex's instinct to eat fish as well as escape the fossas. Since the penguins have now returned from Antarctica , the troops are preparing to leave for New York. However, the ship's tank is empty.
synchronization
The German synchronization of the film took over the Berliner Synchron AG under the dialogue direction and based on a dubbing book by Michael Nowka .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker | animal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marty | Chris Rock | Rick Kavanian | zebra |
| Alex | Ben Stiller | Jan Josef Liefers | lion |
| Melman | David Schwimmer | Bastian Pastewka | giraffe |
| Gloria | Jada Pinkett Smith | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues | hippo |
| Skipper | Tom McGrath | Michael Beck | penguin |
| Kowalski | Chris Miller | Thomas D | penguin |
| Private | Christopher Knights | Smudo | penguin |
| Rico | John DiMaggio | Andreas Rieke | penguin |
| King Julien | Sacha Baron Cohen | Stefan Gossler | Lemur ( ring- tailed lemur ) |
| Maurice | Cedric the Entertainer | Roland Hemmo | Lemur ( finger animal ) |
| Mort | Andy Richter | Gerald Schaale | Lemur ( mouse lemur ) |
| Monkey mason | Conrad Vernon | Lothar Blumhagen | chimpanzee |
There are German trailers with other voice actors. What is striking is the consistency of the dubbing voice of Ben Stiller ( Oliver Rohrbeck ) and that the penguins are not spoken by the Fantastic Four . The trailer (TV commercial) broadcast on television matches the voice actors used for the film.
Reviews
Rico Pfirstinger writes for the cinema magazine Cinema : “Madagascar” is not a new “Finding Nemo!” And largely dispenses with the usual moral messages in this genre. Not a great movie - but great fun.
The film was given the rating of Particularly Valuable by the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden (FBW) . In its justification, the rating agency called the film “technically perfect” and saw it as “convincingly designed family entertainment with ingenuity and wit”.
music
The film contains three songs played several times. One is Theme from New York, New York , which the two friends Alex and Marty sing both in the zoo (both) and on the island (only Marty). In the scene of Marty and Alex's first reunion in Madagascar, the theme song from The Victor's Hour is played by the Greek composer Vangelis . Another well-known song is I Like To Move It by Reel 2 Real from 1994. This is the party anthem of the lemurs and is also played in the credits. The third title is that of the 1966 nature film Born Free . At the beginning of the film he is presented with singing in Marty's dream sequence. Then it is played orchestral several times. The title music of the National Geographic program is also recorded at short notice, as well as Boogie Wonderland from Earth, Wind and Fire and Staying Alive from the Bee Gees . Furthermore, What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong is played as the original. When Marty's arrival on the island, the theme song of Hawaii Five-Zero can be heard.
Sequels and offshoots
Sequels
The sequel to Madagascar with the title Madagascar 2 ran on November 7, 2008 in the USA and on December 4, 2008 in Germany. In addition, the film Madagascar 3: Escape through Europe (also in 3D) was released on October 2, 2012 in Germany.
Offshoots in film and television
A feature film with the penguins from “Madagascar” as protagonists was released in 2014 under the title The Penguins from Madagascar .
From October 13, 2005, an 11-minute short film called The Madagascar Penguins on a pre-Christmas mission was shown as a supporting film for Wallace & Gromit - On the hunt for the giant rabbit in the cinema. This short film is also available on the Madagascar DVD. In 2009 another Christmas special was produced with the title Happy Madagascar .
A separate series of the Madagascar penguins has been running on German television since April 2009 on Nickelodeon under the title Die Pinguine aus Madagascar and does not take place in the same universe as the film series. Another offshoot is the animated television series King Julien , which has been produced since 2014 , which takes place before the first movie and is mainly about the lemur Julien.
computer game
In 2005 an action adventure was released for the film .
Web links
- Official website
- Madagascar in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Madagascar atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Madagascar Wiki A fan wiki with more than 150 articles on Madagascar
- Comparison of the cut versions BBFC U - original version from Madagascar at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Madagascar . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 653 V).
- ↑ Age rating for Madagascar . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Madagascar. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Trailer with different synchronization on YouTube
- ↑ TV commercial with the voice actors used for the film
- ↑ PDF ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
