Since the quartet of ass-kicking, wisecracking penguins appeared and captivated audiences in “Madagascar” and its subsequent sequels, the franchise has never been about the four main animals – Alex ...

Submit to it. Resistance is futile. Smart-mouth flightless waterfowl bring the funny in all sorts of clever ways in “Penguins of Madagascar.” The inevitable feature featuring Skipper (voiced by ...

For a movie that's more paint by numbers than Picasso, "Penguins of Madagascar" begins with something completely unexpected: a Werner Herzog voiceover. Parodying his own work and documentary films' ...

Tom McGrath has discovered that kids believe Skipper, the tough, no-nonsense penguin he first voiced in the 2005 animated hit “Madagascar,” is real. “That is the curse of being a voice,” says McGrath, ...

The story: Against herd instinct, three penguins Skipper, Kowalski and Rico inadvertently break away from their colony to save an egg, out of which hatches the baby penguin Private. The four of them ...

One man’s penguin is another man’s minion. At least that’s how “Penguins of Madagascar” shakes down. Very similar to parts of “Despicable Me,” it lets the scene stealers from “Madagascar” shine ...

Along with flatulence and groaner puns, cuteness is a common element in children's movies. "Penguins of Madagascar" is well aware of this, underscoring all of these components with tasty irony and ...

When it comes to the Madagascar series of films, there are the main characters, and then there are those scene-stealing penguins. They’re the secret bedrock of the series, the funniest characters in ...

Blame it on lowered expectations for the umpteenth cartoon starring those commando penguins from “Madagascar,” overexposed little darlings who stole all those movies and went on to star in their own ...

Tom McGrath has discovered that kids believe Skipper, the tough, no-nonsense penguin he first voiced in the 2005 animated hit “Madagascar,” is real. “That is the curse of being a voice,” says McGrath, ...

Full confession: "Madagascar" is hardly my favorite recent animated movie, and this half-hour series derived from it is equally headache-inducing -- loud, exuberant and colorful, but seldom clever or ...