Penguins of Madagascar - 2014

I liked it enough :-) It was funny. Maybe silly here and there, but surely much better than Madagascar 2 and 3. This is a story all about those penguins, of how Skipper, Kowalshi and Rico saved an egg and adopted Private, but mainly about Dave the Octopus and his hate for all penguins because in every zoo people liked penguins much more than him. Dave has John Malkovich's voice, so it's a pleasure when he's on. Dave kidnaps our penguins but they escape; when cornered in a dead-end street they are saved by the North Wind Squad: Short Fuse the seal, Corporal the bear, Eva the howl and their leader, the dog Agent Classified (that's not actually his name but he never says the true one "because it's classified"... although he says the names of the others all the time, but let's move on).
I had not recognized in Agent Classified Benedict Cumberbatch's voice! How could I? Again, moving on.
The two teams are in conflict, the North Wind Squad thinks they're the only professionals entitled to do this work, but when Dave starts abducting penguins from the zoos all over the world our four won't accept to be left behind. This means they are in each other's way. When Private is abducted too, Skipper accepts to be led by the North Wind team, but their perfect plan fails, and they are all captured.
All the penguins are transformed into monsters, but Private frees the North Wind team and then uses his cuteness as their secret weapon. To invert the effects of the Medusa serum they needed a source of extreme cuteness, so Private uses himself to change back everyone. Penguins are safe, Kowalski gets kissed by Eva and Private finally earns Skipper's respect as an active and productive member of the team. During the credits at the end we see that they go to King Julien and use his cute litlle friend to change back Private who regains all his cuteness :-) Don't know what happens to the poor little thing though..
The end.
I always thought a film without the annoying zebra, the lion and the giraffe would have been funnier and more enjoyable :-) the penguins were the stars of Madagascar and they deserved their own film
:-)


ITA i pinguini di Madagascar - il film