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By Rick Bentley (466) for Fresno Bee (603) on 25 Nov 2014

As if the great animation and first-rate writing weren't enough, the film offers a sweet lesson about how everyone has a purpose, no matter how small…

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By Simon Abrams (730) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Nov 2014

Plays like a sampler of Dreamworks Animation's worst creative impulses: sugar-rush pacing, pandering meta-gags, and a slick, flavorless animation…

Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 25 Nov 2014

Passable entertainment if you're 7. Otherwise, frenzied and aimless…

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By Maricar Estrella (42) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 25 Nov 2014

However, even with all of well-intentioned references and good humor, Penguins doesn't break new ground…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Nov 2014

The pun is a gun for Penguins' writers…

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By Matt Fowler (109) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 25 Nov 2014

This isn't phenomenal, transcendent animated cinema, but it's also pretty fun if you're just looking for surface-level silliness with a handful…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 25 Nov 2014

Frenetic and frequently funny, Penguins Of Madagascar represents the DreamWorks Animation franchise style — which boils down to self-aware,…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 25 Nov 2014

All the glossy, kinetic animation and inventive action sequences get lost in the gag machine…

Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 25 Nov 2014

The screenplay by John Aboud, Michael Colton and Brandon Sawyer has a fizzy, pop-culture pizazz, tempered by a distinctly vaudeville sensibility…

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By Drew Taylor (218) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 Nov 2014

In zany set piece after zany set piece, the movie sets itself apart as willing to try anything, do anything for laugh, and it succeeds more…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 25 Nov 2014

Strives to be entertaining, but for much of its run time it is so emotionally uninvolving that even the smallest children might find themselves bored…

Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Nov 2014

A lazy, noisy ADHD-addled collection of animated clichés guaranteed to give anyone older than 5 a headache, even if you don’t see it in…

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By Bill Zwecker (128) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Nov 2014

From the opening frame right up to the whirlwind finale, you will be treated to non-stop action, clever dialogue and quite a bit of zany energy…

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By John Serba (472) for MLive.com (475) on 25 Nov 2014

I'm cynical enough to believe there's a cuteness-to-pop-culture-reference algorithm at play - but it doesn't matter, as long as we're laughing…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Nov 2014

The unfunny, unmoving, and uninspired Penguins never persuades us of its need to exist…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 25 Nov 2014

Penguin power! Submit to it. Resistance is futile…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 25 Nov 2014

Hell, it starts with a Werner Herzog joke. You know, for the kids…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 25 Nov 2014

This is a joyless, frenetic film that is very rarely funny…

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By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 25 Nov 2014

Penguins of Madagascar moves at full throttle, a pace kids will love but which may become exhausting for their adult companions…

Review of Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Nov 2014

The decision to focus on the series’s comic relief has resulted in the loosest and perhaps funniest film of the brand…

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