comics - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2005 - 100 Euro Cent

Animal stories have always delighted young and old alike. Especially narratives in which animals assume the roles of humans have an ancient tradition. In all the peoples, myths tell stories of animals as fables or parables, and in parables that bring people closer to common truths or moral concepts about the level of feeling in understandable imagery. Even in the modern form of cartoons, this traditional narrative style is used and speculated with human emotion. Walt Disney productions or products from Japanese studios that were painstakingly drawn picture by picture, are now animated by computer technology and are now letting the box office ring. After the success of "Shrek" or "Big sharks - small fish" of the Dreamwork Pictures from the USA, a new film was released from the same animators, directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath: "Madagascar" - a story about a funny animal conspiracy with turbulent scenes, funny jokes and brisk slogans. The main theme, however, is the longing for freedom, for the wilderness, for the original. The focus of the film are the four main actors and also the absolute stars in the zoo of New York's Central Park: the imaginary Leo Alex, proud of his mane, the cheeky zebra Marty, the panicked giraffe Melman and the divorced hippopotamus lady Gloria , You have a great life in the zoo. They are regularly fed and admired and admired daily by the visitors. Still, Marty feels pretty lonely. The idea of ​​freedom, of living in the wild employs him too much. One day, when he accidentally discovers the escape attempt of some penguins, he disappeared shortly thereafter. His three friends are looking for him. Before they can do anything worse in the streets and subway network of New York, they are captured, packed in boxes and sent by ship to Africa. So they are involuntarily united again. But then the crazy penguins under the command of Skipper abduct the ship. Off the coast of Madagascar Island, Alex, Melman, Marty and Gloria go overboard to experience firsthand what the wild, new life feels like and stranded, and how to survive. They discover the truth of the proverb "The jungle is everywhere". And guaranteed there are some surprises waiting for the four adventurers. However much technology has come into the production of a film and has surprised us with the most incredible effects, it is still the sparkling ideas that determine the success of a story.