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The kids and I watched Madagascar 2 recently, and it was a relatively harmless movie. It got a few laughs and chuckles from the crowd (all three of us) here. Some of the loudest laughing came from scenes where Moto Moto was wooing Gloria the hippo. For those of you who haven’t seen the flick, Gloria is a female hippo – ’nuff said. Anyway, Moto Moto has a couple of scenes where he’s singing and dancing, like this one here. So this was the source of much hooting from the kids. We had to watch the extra scenes with the music videos for the movie also.
So, as I saw this for the fourth or fifth time, I realized that this was the PG version of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back. This staple of ’80s early rap is still a fun trip down memory road.
It also shows that savvy filmmakers will make movies that appeal to various age segments. I remember taking the kids when they were much younger to movies that really were only for them. There was nothing there for the parents. Madagascar had some humor and innuendo that adults got while providing belly laughs for the kids. I think that I like all of the Pixar movies for much the same reason.
Overall, I simply liked the movie just because it allowed us to spend some fun time together.