{"id":1645,"date":"2005-07-24T23:57:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T23:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1645.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","slug":"madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/07\/24\/madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Madagascar<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Madagascar<\/i> is much more <em>cartoonish<\/em> than Dreamworks&#8217; other recent animated features.  In addition to a healthy (but not excessive) dose of slapstick violence, it plays about with cut-scene asides (the monkeys and penguins), with movie references (the <i>American Beauty<\/i> one is particularly good), and classic visual gags, such as Alex the lion seeing all of the animals around him transformed into juicy steaks.  It doesn&#8217;t feature a make-it-all-better plot like <i>Shark Tale<\/i>, nor does it have a top-heavy list of stars who want their voice performances to take priority over everything else.  It takes some chances, and is a better film for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar is much more cartoonish than Dreamworks&#8217; other recent animated features. In addition to a healthy (but not excessive) dose of slapstick violence, it plays about with cut-scene asides (the monkeys and penguins), with movie references (the American Beauty one is particularly good), and classic visual gags, such as Alex the lion seeing all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_3_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}