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Madagascar
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #394
- IMDb #286
- Google retired #188
- Rotten Tomatoes #368
- Metacritic #277
- Letterboxd #246
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #409
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #325
- Metacritic Critics #275
- Metacritic Audience #229
- Criticker #239
- Douban #116
- Kinopoisk #79
- AlloCiné #297
- Trakt #225
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Lowest is Criticker on 40, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 56, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Four animal friends from the New York Central Park Zoo have lived pampered lives in captivity. When a penguin escape plot goes awry, they find themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. They must learn to survive in the wild for the first time, encountering a party-loving tribe of lemurs and their own primal instincts.
Details
- Directors
- Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
- Writers
- Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell, Mark Burton, Tom McGrath
- Released
- 25 May 2005
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $542.1M
- Awards
- 1 win, 11 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| AFI's 10 Top 10 2005 | Animated Film | Madagascar | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Best Animated Feature | Mireille Soria | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Animated Effects | Matt Baer | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Animated Effects | Rick Glumac | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Animated Effects | Martin Usiak | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Craig Kellman | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Music in an Animated Feature Production | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
| Annie Award 2005 | Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Yoriko Ito | Nominee |
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12 awards — Madagascar
×| Favorite Animated Movie | Madagascar | Winner |
| Animated Effects | Matt Baer | Nominee |
| Animated Effects | Rick Glumac | Nominee |
| Animated Effects | Martin Usiak | Nominee |
| Best Animated Feature | Mireille Soria | Nominee |
| Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Craig Kellman | Nominee |
| Music in an Animated Feature Production | Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
| Production Design in an Animated Feature Production | Yoriko Ito | Nominee |
| Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Tom McGrath | Nominee |
| Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production | Catherine Yuh Rader | Nominee |
| Animated Film | Madagascar | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Madagascar | Nominee |