The position of the first cartoon in my memory in 2009 was assigned to "Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa", and I sat in the cinema for 90 minutes on the evening of January 2. There were not many people at the scene, but children accounted for a considerable part, so the atmosphere was very good. It's been so long since the last time I watched Madagascar 1 that it felt like something happened in a previous life, and this episode 2 feels more interesting than episode 1. Whenever there is a joke that everyone can understand, the children at the scene will always laugh without any scruples. That kind of hahaha is something that dirty adults like us can't learn. I can only say that it feels very Great great great great. So if you have a younger child around you, take him/her to see Madagascar 2 (if you want to enjoy that kind of hahaha, it is best not to watch the original English version, I watched the Mandarin version).
This cartoon is as delicately done as the 3D cartoons in the past, and the laughs are also well-made. The most important thing is that the children on the scene make this film very dynamic. It is hard for me to imagine a person who is bored in a room and is expressionless. How can you see the essence of this cartoon by watching the download version - it is a movie that needs to cooperate with the children on the scene to play a small universe.
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1. At the beginning of the film, the protagonist and his party are going to leave Madagascar and return to New York in a tattered plane made by several penguins. At the same time, there are also the Madagascar raccoon king and his entourage, and the two appear for some unknown reason. The orangutan on the plane, and a small animal who tried desperately to get on the plane but was blocked. The method of taking off the plane is to use a giant slingshot to pop out. There will be the first grand hahaha appreciation, and the expression method is common in many funny movies. Friends who are interested in making funny items can learn it. To avoid spoilers, I didn't say it explicitly, but you will definitely understand what I mean when you watch it, the same below.
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2. There is a distinction between first class and economy class on that plane, and the contrast is huge. I don't know if the children understand what this means, but I believe that the parents who have lived in the society for a long time will understand that this is a joke that cannot be laughed out.
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3. Captain Penguin's lover is an active puppet, which is estimated to be equivalent to the inflatable toy deep in the wardrobe of some adult men who live alone. Captain Penguin was very affectionate to his puppet lover and was very funny. Everyone at the scene, including the children, would make fun of his actions, but I was a little envious of that puppet. Maybe it will be a happy thing to be someone else's inflatable doll. This bridge section later also had brilliant applications.
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4. Next, the plane landed safely without knowing why it was able to land safely. There is a second grand hahaha, and it is also the beginning of the story branch: four penguins We were preparing to repair the plane with only one bracket left, and found two high-level primate mammals orangutans who were playing chess on the plane, because they had many fingers and agile brains and looked stupid, convenient. Let the penguins lead the delicate maintenance operations; the four protagonist animals don't want to stay there and set off to find another way to possibly get back to New York; the raccoon king and his entourage continue to arrogantly go to other places to put on airs (but there will always be The animal bowed its head to it); a small animal outside the plane landed on the coast and brought out a shark who has no lines from beginning to end and is fierce but has no IQ (because of the needs of the plot, the setting of this role is very important). They will each develop a different side story.
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4.1. A small characteristic of the four penguins is that they always like to express "it will take six to nine months" as "it will take six or nine months", and then others will It sounds like a little bridge like "it takes sixty-nine months". I think I'm probably the only guy in the scene who unconsciously thinks about another meaning of 69. The penguins needed parts for maintenance, and at the same time they found that there would be tourists passing by in jeeps, so they decided to design a robbery. The robbery method is a very common method, and friends who are interested in making deceitful tricks can learn it. The introduction of the human animal here lays the groundwork for the subsequent development of contradictions.
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4.2. The protagonist and his party discovered that the place where they landed was actually the African grassland, and saw many animals exactly like themselves, many lions, many hippos, many zebras, and many giraffes. This is the African Grassland Reserve, where different kinds of carnivores and herbivores live happily (it's a hateful move to tell the children the cruel truth of the African grasslands, don't do it), and the leader is a lion. Sensitive people should have guessed that there is a plot between this leader lion and our protagonist lion Alex. At that time, I was very impressed. When the leader, the old lion, found the same birthmark on Alex's palm as his own, he looked at each other in silence. At this time, a child shouted "Dad!" loudly and childishly, and then the old lion Saying "Son!" affectionately, Alex responds affectionately with "Dad!". It was here that the action of the little boy who was the first to speak the lines made the audience laugh.
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4.3. All the protagonists have their own plots. What I remember most is the confusion that Zebra Mardi faced with "Is he a special existence, or is he exactly the same as other zebras". All zebras are exactly the same as me, they can imitate the skills they have spent years learning in a minute, and Alex the lion, a good friend of many years, can't tell the difference between him and other zebras. Are you really special? Or is it just an ordinary and unremarkable guy who looks like an outsider? It seems that I am no different from the Zebra Mardi.
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4.4. Another branch is the relationship between the hippo Gloria and the giraffe Merman. I guess there are a few places that children won't care about:
(1) Are hippos and giraffes who are so different really qualified to talk about feelings? Gloria the hippo first got hooked on another burly hippo, moto, which makes sense.
(2) Merman the giraffe has a crush on Gloria the hippo but doesn't dare to move, until he finds that he has only 18 hours left to live, and then he muster the courage to find Gloria the hippo who is dating the hippo moto, who is not romantic at all. The scene at that time is very similar to the scene in "My Sassy Girl" where the hero talks to the man who is on the blind date with the heroine. The children didn't laugh, so I guess I can't understand... right?
(3) Gloria the hippo said to Merman the giraffe, "Traveled all over the world to find my true son, but he was by my side." This is an old saying, do some people often look very high to expect a prince and princess who meet their fantasy conditions, but don't pay attention to someone who is more actual beside them? Many people also complain that the people around them are not good enough, but they don’t think about whether this grade is really useful, and whether they just enjoy the thrill of self-satisfaction when they are expected to show envy and jealousy when they introduce their lover to their companions? In this case, it is really necessary to pursue a handsome man or a super beauty.
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4.5. The branch line of the lion Alex and his parents, especially the relationship between the child and his father, is heavily rendered in the film. That story mode is also a routine, and in any case, a father who knows how to accept his child's strengths that don't seem to have anything to do with surviving in society is worthy of respect. Parents are very distressed about their children's rebellion, refusing to listen to teaching, playing late at night, failing to get good grades in studies, etc., but I hope they are not really distressed because their children let themselves in front of relatives and friends Can't get over your face. The old lion in the film is a father worth learning. I wonder if the men present thought so.
By the way, there is a scene in which the lion parents mentioned a small quilt that Alex used when he was a child (Is it something like this? I was in a daze at the time, didn't see clearly), Alex I liked that little quilt very much, but the old lion thought he didn't need it anymore, so the two of them tugged for a while, and finally parted a bit awkwardly. I hope friends who think they understand this lens can tell me what it means, thank you.
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5. Among the people who come to the African reserve for sightseeing, the protagonist is definitely the super powerful old woman. She also had a fight with Alex the Lion at the beginning (the third big hahaha). Later, she also encouraged tourists who were lost in the jungle by robbing their jeeps by penguins to not just wait for rescue, but also to create their own conditions to survive (this is the conflict between humans and animals in the climax). This old woman character who is very obsessed with her handbag is loved by all the children in the audience. At the end of the movie, a family walked in front of me, there were three generations of old, middle-aged and young. Among them, their children said to her grandmother, "Grandma, I think you are like that old woman." Then the little girl's sister said, "No, I think grandma looks like that hippo" and everyone laughed again. Looking at their smiling grandma, I agree with what the little girl's sister said. So, in addition to taking children to see Madagascar 2, have you ever thought about taking all the elderly at home so that they can also have fun with their grandchildren?
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6. The orangutans who repaired the plane found a "monkey with more monkeys" (yes, it looks like an orangutan, but it seems to be a monkey), and finally they went on strike and demanded the penguins Give them more maternity leave (the children on the scene don't seem to understand what this is). During the negotiation, the orangutans threw out the pornographic photos of the penguins, so the negotiation was successful. I think the portrayal here is really good. The orangutans also had a speech performance in the back, which was also a very good bridge.
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7. Finally, two places are mentioned: one is that the raccoon king said, "As long as ××××××× (to avoid spoilers, the gods will give us water), and then It was realized by mistake, and it was difficult for a certain animal that did not have a line from beginning to end and was fierce but had no IQ (specifically, I won't say what animal...). Can a character who doesn't speak and looks evil be treated as just a prop?
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7.1. It seems that there are only two small animals in the film who were killed openly and obscurely, one is a certain animal in the boring trick that the raccoon king did, and the other is the "bedroom lamp". ", friends who have seen it will know what this is. The problem is that when the two animals sacrificed for the film were sacrificed, the children at the scene didn't realize it and were still laughing. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm not saying it's good, anyway... forget it.
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7.2. Another point to be mentioned is the wedding at the end. It also applies the expression techniques used in the launch of the aircraft at the beginning. Friends who are interested in learning have already noticed it, right?
This cartoon is still good, it is worth recommending children to have fun. By the way, if possible, it is recommended to bring the elderly at home too. Haven't been to the cinema with them for a long time, right?
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