DreamWorks stuff

Of course there is a 10-hour version of the previously mentioned done to death joke from Madagascar 3.

Naturally. There's a ten-hour version of everything.

I recall at the time of that move's release I genuinely could not stand Madagascar's humour,I found it painfully average

The main source of comedy of Madagascar was that every character is extremely hyperactive, either spouting comical dialogue non-stop or pulling all sorts of crazy physical stunts. While the dialogue is funny, I can absolutely understand if someone finds the constant high energy very exhausting.

The penguins were great. Kind of telling that a huge chunk of internet memes about the movies are focused on the penguins.

The penguins got a spin off film of their own,and also a TV show

I think King Julian is also popular among the fandom as well

King Julien is fun, but his humour has kind of run out of steam by 3 as well.

It's a good thing they contained it to a trilogy. I don't think it could have survived a fourth entry.

Yeah mostly it's just spinoffs.

Here's hoping TBG gets something post-movie. If Abominable can, surely this movie can.

I also found the romance with Melman and Gloria weirdly out of touch with the setting. This is clearly supposed to be the real world except animals can talk to each other like humans, but otherwise nature seems to behave exactly like in the real world, so a giraffe and hippo falling in love just feels out of place. Like, I could buy it in a setting like Zootopia or Disney's Robin Hood, where the animals are just humans who look like animals, but it is harder to buy in a movie where the animal characters are supposed to be real animals.

Also, it felt a bit like a Romantic Plot Tumor. The first movie did fine without a romance, but I guess the second movie had to have one. Ice Age went through something similar.

A giraffe falling in love with a hippo is pure rule of funny,also

Gloria..◊

For some reason the beach is the main scene I remember

Edited by Ultimatum on May 5th 2022 at 5:33:00 PM

I think you shouldn't be questioning the logic of a movie with secret agent penguins too much, also animals of different species falling attracted to each other is not unheard of in real life.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-surprising-frequency-of-interspecies-mating/

I guess not.

Alright, that's pretty wild.

Edited by Redmess on May 5th 2022 at 12:02:22 PM

Interspecies mating happens a lot. There are the monkeys mentioned in the article, but also young male sea lions mounting penguins, hand-reared birds imprinting on humans and trying to mate with them (Walnut the crane being a very famous example), storks forming pair bonds with pelicans in zoos, and even beetles mating with beer bottles. So a giraffe-hippo pairing (and in the third movie, a lemur-bear pairing), while silly, is not 100% unrealistic.

Edited by Snicka on May 6th 2022 at 11:03:17 AM

Huh, you're right. I guess it's not as outlandish as I thought.

Though, considering giraffes will absolutely refuse to swim, it would be a very awkward romance nonetheless.

In real life, maybe, but not in this franchise (this clip always bothered me for a different reason: Alex's mane, despite being realistically rendered hair-by-hair, looks almost completely dry after he emerges from the water).

Well, they don't really have fur as such either. I think that was just a little beyond their capabilities, maybe? Maybe it just looked really bad.

Yeah, I think the reason for this way is that it would have been difficult to animate wet hair - so instead they just went with Rule of Funny and made the hair completely unaffected by water.

What do you guys think the chances are that since universal owns by Illumination and Dreamworks that they might murge the studios togeather?

Edited by Ultimatum on May 7th 2022 at 3:30:33 PM

It’s probably in the ownership contract that they can’t do that. It’d be a really stupid thing to do anyway because the only meaningful possible outcome would be a decrease in the output. Either there would literally be no change and merging the two would be a completely pointless waste of time or money, or they’d downsize and lose output.

Looks like even in China The Bad Guys is doing great, and is currently their top box office.

Edited by Ookamikun on May 8th 2022 at 12:41:00 AM

I have always been amazed at how Disney bends over backwards to please China and its Dreamworks who made little effort that achieve success there.

It might possibly be a situation similar to Walt Disney Animation and Pixar, who are both part of the same corporate conglomerate but have their own brand of animated movies.

I remember hearing about a case of a Vulture and either a Hawk or Eagle, because they are both rescues and bonded over it. They even produced an egg that hatched, albeit the child didn't live for long.

I saw The Bad Guys recently, and I loved it. The thing that gets me about the movie’s detractors is that they like to complain about it being predictable as if that makes it bad, somehow. Yeah, there are movies where that is most certainly the case, but Illumination, this is not.

You can have a clichéd plot and still make a good product with the proper work. The film has fun characters, great animation, and great voice acting to transcend the cliches. That's why it works.