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One of the things work often does to keep students occupied while they wait is to put on a video for them to watch. Lately it’s been the 2005 DreamWorks Animation film Madagascar. I happened to be walking past the TV at one point, just in time for this scene to catch my eye. Usually reliance on pop music to spice up your movie annoys me no end (Shrek) but for some reason the thought that someone even remembered Reel 2 Reel’s 1994 monster hit, let alone got the clearance to put it in a film, intrigued me.

I just finished watching it and the film is absolutely hilarious. It’s also absolutely not for kids. I don’t mean because it contains ‘adult themes’ but because the jokes would just fly over a kid’s head. The film has at least three fantastic parodies of classic films which no one under the age of 15 is going to appreciate but which should hopefully have anyone over 15 laughing out loud.

Seems like I’m on a bit of a roll lately when it comes to animated movies. At least it washed the taste of Transformers out of my mouth.