Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

I was seriously disappointed by this film.  The critics must have all been high off of happy pills when they saw this, because I didn't quite get the enthusiasm.

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is the third installment in the Madagascar franchise.  We follow the lives of Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, as they find themselves joining a traveling circus in order to make there way home to New York.  It stars Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Cedric the Entertainer - to name a few.

My biggest problem with this film is that the humour did not appeal to all audiences and the plot was kind of all over the place. There was too much going on sometimes, and at times it felt like work following the movement of events.  Some of the scenes were so ridiculous, that all reality flew out the window for this film.  Yes, I realize its an animated film about talking zoo animals, but still.  It was too much, especially with the woman who tries to hunt Alex down throughout the movie.  Her character was rarely fun to watch, even though the writers definitely intended her to be a highlight of the film.  She was obnoxious more than anything else.  Now let me be clear about the actors, they all did a great job voicing their characters.  This was purely a problem from the writers and those who constructed the plot's events.  Now let's talk about the comedy. 

This film rarely appealed to adult audiences, and when it did, the humour came solely from Sacha Baron Cohen's character - King Julian.  I give him the majority of the credit.

I think I'm gonna leave it at that.  To sum up: Too much going on in one film, limiting its audience to  children under the age of 10, and at times feeling a little unnecessarily long.  But for the sake of the children, this film just reaches a 7/10.