The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (2005)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Gary Trousdale

Writer:

Michael Lachance (screenplay)

Release Date:

7 October 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family

Plot:

The penguins of the Central Park Zoo have an adventure in the city on Christmas Eve.

Plot Keywords:

Penguin | Christmas | Polar Bear | Zoo | Present

Cast

Tom McGrath	...	Skipper (voice)
Chris Miller	...	Kowalski (voice)
Christopher Knights	...	Private (voice)
John Di Maggio	...	Rico (voice) (as John DiMaggio)
Elisa Gabrielli	...	Old Lady (voice)
Bill Fagerbakke	...	Ted the Polar Bear (voice)
Sean Bishop	...	Doorman, TV Announcer (voice)
Mitch Carter	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Rif Hutton	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Richard Miro	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Holly Dorff	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Hope Levy	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Lynnanne Zager	...	Additional Voice (voice)

Runtime:

11 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:G | UK:U | Germany:6 | Singapore:G | Finland:K-3 | Spain:T | South Korea:All

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Trivia:

When Skipper, Rico, and Kowalski find the Private, they see him in a sidewalk cart with the old lady inspecting its merchandise. Skipper then dons a pair of night-vision goggles to zoom in and view Private and subsequently the old lady purchasing him as a toy. When the action is shown as if the viewer was looking through the goggles, red text on a HUD very quickly scrolls above the green night vision image with the following text: - Initializing penguin tracking system I/O....... Successfully booted. Welcome to penguin threat interaction system. Acquired potential danger: Granny aka blue hair searching database for personal file. Done. Warning: Psychotic subject, behavior out of whack. Proximity to Private 30 ft and closing. Looking for similar subject matches to subject "Blue Hair" for [ The scene switches back to the penguins inspecting the situation ] Indexing database of known humanoid perpetrators for pattern match...... done. Feeding boolean matches to query engine: Psychotic & neurotic Nice & bluehi Full matches: None. Listing partial matches in that incripted [sic] super secret penguin code, /amandafrancois/nicolas/guy/jacqueline/pierre/finarricangrace/carlosakydri/alexadidem/davidarwra/pavel/sasha/joaquim/cheannelson/alex/duff/jasmine/cole/carter&amya&emily/amanda/gary/ben&owen/ ... Partial match ignored.. No user input. Flushing 5K memory. Attempting to access web for search on 'blue hair' through local coffee shop wi-fi network. Connecting... Connecting... Connection established. Booting 'flipper v0.001' web browser........ Fatal error... Core dumped. System message to user: An unknown fatal error has occurred please reboot. Shutting down network services and switching to failsafe. [ The penguins march behind nuns, and then take cover behind a trash can. "Skipper" brings out the goggles one last time to examine the action ] warning: target "blue hair" has intercepted penguin "private", searching for alternate course of action. Submitting case id of penguin abduction to internal systems. potential danger for penguin imminent. recommend immediate course of action. abnormal penguin stretching detected. penguin "private" height to width ration decreased by 3. That cannot feel good! Hailing all other penguins within proximity for assistance. No reply. Potential danger for penguin [ The penguins then discuss the situation and their options ]

Goofs:

Continuity: The holes made in the laminated floor, by the candies, around the Christmas tree, are absent in the shot when the Penguins are giving high fives.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Private: He looks so sad.
Skipper: Rico, I want that tree up to muster.

Movie Connections:

References Jurassic Park (1993)

Soundtrack:

Jingle, Jingle, Jingle

The Madagascar penguins are very, very funny

My wife and I saw this movie with some of our grandchildren as it was tagged on Wallace and Grommit. Now I loved Wallace and Grommit but we all thought this little short was very, very funny and deserves to be released on a DVD. We would definitely buy it and so would many others I am sure of it. The grandkids loved this short and it caused them to laugh out loud many times. We also laughed out loud at Wallace and Grommit, though my wife thought that the Madagascar penguins were much funnier I would have to say I liked the penguins a little bit more then Wallace and Grommit. I would say that anyone with kids or are big kids themselves need to see these two flicks as soon as possible or regret it for a long time.