January 2009 Archives

This is a nice family movie. Explains the importance of understanding growing up kids.. at various stages of their lives.. especially in an indian terrain.

Best, it is watched with family, especially the oldie-types/ mid-age mom-dads in your family who might not have seen the world or many people of the world, to understand the goods and bads of inheriting different cultures.. especially when it comes to allowing kids to become adults, make their own decisions in life.

I happened to go with my mom to the theatre complex(yes very very occassionally I take her out) expecting to see 'Padikathavan' a masala(read no-story) movie .. but because we were late and that movie had already started, I landed up taking my mom to this wonderful movie.. wonderful for my mom..it was though boring for me except that I was enjoying prakashRaj(lead actor) at his best of expressions

I actually don't enjoy much of philosophical movies or motivating movies at the theatres, I like to be entertained if I watch one in a theatre, like cartoons ;) Bond 007's,

My mom loved the movie and was within it so much, that I could see her hands folded(in prayer) when trisha(actress) was getting married at the marriage registrar's office (in the movie).

Enjoyable.. Moving.. for a family audience.

Actors Trisha - PrakashRaj - Aishwarya (play the very composed daughter - dad - mom in the movie)

Ofcourse you are expected to have seen Madagascar 1 to enjoy this movie in full.. A very good mild, comedy, with brilliant voice-overs.. actually both madagascar movies are low on graphics or animation compared to movies that pixar(Makers of 'finding nemo','incredibles') makes.. but the voice-overs take the stage and make you ignore your expectation of high standards of animations.

I actually don't like the idea of movie people taking a series.. like part 1, part 2... except if the different parts have isolated stories, jokes, and don't require the audience to have followed all movies in the series to understand the next one.. like they do with Harry potter movies.

Most of the comedy's(or entire movie's) context in Madagascar 2 goes back to you having seen the earlier movie, or at least having a friend next to you explaining you the context of the jokes. I went with a friend who hadn't seen the earlier part and was not enjoying the movie as much as me.

Children will love it I think, I found many children in the hall laughing out or screaming understanding the sequences in the movie..

And here actually I have an observation.. Children seem to like or relate to, or identify animals and characters in animation movies that are low on graphics.. just like they see in comic books.. more than understanding movies like 'Incredibles'/'Finding nemo' which I would say requires you to be an adult to enjoy it fully. Just like how Ice Age series are also popular with children.

So, maybe the crew of madagascar were indeed doing a stripped down comic book like graphics for animation rather than the other way like I was wondering in the first part of this post.