Line #1 Trivia/PenguinsOfMadagascar


1	* AcclaimedFlop: The film was positively received by critics holding a score of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes but unfortunately due to additional costs the film bombed at the box office.
2	* BeamMeUpScotty: Despite being circulated alongside a screenshot from the film, the line 'We did it boys, racism is no more' comes from ''WebVideo/ThePenguinsOfMadagascarOperationNWord'' rather than the canon script.
3	* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $132 million. Box office, $81,268,373 (domestic), $320,483,373 (worldwide). Sounds good on paper... except that's not even counting the advertising budget, believed to be ''just as large.'' [=DreamWorks=] Animation had already been suffering from previous box office stings, but this film delivered the biggest blow to the studio. After the studio predicted it would make a $49 million loss at theaters[[note]]which was bigger than their previous $15 million loss prediction[[/note]], studio shares tumbled ''six percent'' the following month, and the film's underperforming forced the company to [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html terminate five hundred employees and shut down PDI]].
4	* CreatorKiller: The film's disastrous financial results, along with that of ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'', all-but-fatally scarred [=DreamWorks=]' ability to survive as an independent film studio. It took two years and several major job losses to get to the point of having to be sold.
5	** The film was such a disaster at the domestic box office that Creator/DreamWorksAnimation lost an enormous amount of money (though 2 failed mergers on the company's end, one reportedly with Creator/{{Hasbro}}, deserve credit, too), directly resulting in studio Pacific Data Images shutting down as part of a restructuring of the company.
6	** It also ended the long run of chief creative officer Bill Damaschke, who had been with the studio since 1995, and the short run of COO and longtime Disney executive Mark Zoradi, who had been with DWA since earlier that summer (Zoradi would take over the Cinemark cinema chain months later).
7	** And finally, it was the beginning of the end for founder Jeffrey Katzenberg himself, with his ambitions against Disney having finally got the better of him. The studio's [[WesternAnimation/Home2015 next]] [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 two]] films were financial successes, but not on high enough of a level to please shareholders. This eventually led to Katzenberg agreeing to sell the studio to [[Creator/NBCUniversal Comcast [=NBCUniversal=]]] within 18 months (after having decided not to take the company private with the help of a shareholder in China) and divest his involvement with DWA on a heavy basis.
8	* DescendedCreator: Rather than having John [=DiMaggio=], [=DreamWorks=] staff member Conrad Vernon voiced Rico here. Skipper, Kowalski, and Private still have Tom [=McGrath=], Chris Miller[[note]]no, not Phil Lord's partner[[/note]], and Christopher Knights, all DWA staff members, voicing them.
9	* FranchiseKiller: Throughout most of the 2000's, ''Madagascar'' was only second to ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' as [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks]]' CashCowFranchise. Even though ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' and ''Franchise/HowToTrainYourDragon'' eventually overshadowed it in popularity, ''Madagascar'' was still able to stay afloat as one of DWA's top-tier brands. This film's flopping at the box office, combined with the concurrent serious restructuring of the company following the other {{Box Office Bomb}}s of the 2010s, pretty much set the ''Madagascar'' franchise out to pasture as a previously-scheduled fifth film in the series remains in DevelopmentHell. However, [[WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien a few]] [[WesternAnimation/MadagascarALittleWild television adaptations]] have been released in the wake of this hibernation.
10	* TheOriginalDarrin: Kowalski and Private are voiced by their movie actors, Chris Miller and Christopher Knights, instead of their TV actors, Jeff Bennett and James Patrick Stuart.
11	* TheOtherDarrin:
12	** Instead of being voiced by John [=DiMaggio=], Rico is instead voiced by Mason's voice actor, Conrad Vernon.
13	** [[spoiler:King Julien's cameo during TheStinger has him being voiced by his TV replacement actor, Danny Jacobs, instead of Creator/SachaBaronCohen[[note]]Although you can briefly hear Baron Cohen's voice as Julien singing the "I Like to Move It Move It" verse of "Afro Circus" during the beginning of the movie[[/note]].]]
14	* RecursiveAdaptation: [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar1 Movie]] -> [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar TV series]] -> movie. The penguins have taken such a huge leap in bringing their personalities and appearances closer to the series, that some people consider this movie to finally link to the ''Penguins'' series.
15	* ReleaseDateChange: It was scheduled for March 2015 before moving to November 2014, swapping places with ''WesternAnimation/Home2015''.
16	* RoleReprise:
17	** Tom [=McGrath=], Chris Miller, and Christopher Knights return to voicing Skipper, Kowalski, and Private.
18	** [[spoiler: The stinger has Andy Richter and Danny Jacobs return to voicing Mort and Julien, the former from all non-video game media and the latter from the video games and the cartoon while replacing Sasha Baron Cohen]].
19	* SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: In the AMinorKidroduction scene, the four penguins sound exactly the same as they do when they're adults. It's particularly conspicuous with Skipper and Kowalski, who both have deep male voices.
20	* StillbornFranchise: The film actually did worse than [=DreamWorks=]' [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians previous]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}} three]] [[WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman attempts]] to start a franchise, despite being fueled by the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' series, leading them to lose $49 million at theaters, over triple of what they expected, and the company's shares fell ''six percent'' because of it. Not enough to kill off the ''Madagascar'' franchise, but certainly enough to ensure that there would be no more ''Penguins'' solo films.

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