The Reel Rejects - PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR (2014) MOVIE REVIEW!!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:17 More on them after the reaction, peeps. Citizens are the Reject Nation. It's me to Erickson, LaSide. To Humphrey. Oh, To Humphrey. He, I put it in one word. It's fine. I'm fine. Everything is fine. my t-shirt we're gonna watch penguins of metagascar yes it blinked my brain then I saw the

Starting point is 00:01:36 title I was like right right here we are listen are you good John I'm so good I'm ready to go on some kind of skimish yeah we love the penguins from the last movie so I'm stoked on it so just remember guys leave a like leave a comment tell us how cool we are oh don't forget ring the bell We should start an album with the ring the bells. Me and John, forget about it. Now, listen, thanks to prep for helping us edit down these videos. Also, if you're not on Patreon, we call you super sexy over there. Who doesn't like to be called super sexy?

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Starting point is 00:02:24 I mean, what else do we say before we get into it? Dude, just that we love you and we're going on an adventure. Yeah, we do love you, we love you so much. If I haven't told you that enough, I'm so sorry. Yeah, Mom. Love you, love you so much. Okay, so we're gonna watch it in three, two, one. Annette Mahendoru, I don't know with her.

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Starting point is 00:07:22 It's no matter what we say. Even if you hate it, it's, rate us five stars worth of hatred. Yes, this is good, John. I always attempt to be good. Yeah. You know, except we just don't ever see it. You know, I like to leave things to the imagination. You know, you don't want to be too on the nose in this life. You don't leave people with things to contemplate.

Starting point is 00:07:43 Otherwise, you know, you're going to be in one ear and out the other. What did you think? Listen, I like this movie a lot. I mean, it's filled with like, like, The sarcasm and the physical humor, is there another one? No, we're good. I love the physical humor that the penguins have always had, even in Madagascar. I mean, they were, as I said, watching the Madagascar movies, they're some of my favorite characters.

Starting point is 00:08:08 Their sarcasm and the physical humor that they use with them is great. I just think it's jokes galore, and I love it. But I also really like the action sequences, which they have. Madagascar, but now they get to finally fly free in this movie. Yeah, instead of it being like a once in a while thing. It's like the whole time.

Starting point is 00:08:33 They're doing stuff. And mostly, I just want cheese puffs. Yeah, man. Those, I felt for him at the end there when he was like, whoa, do I get the organic or do I get the regulars? Yeah, and just their attention to detail with all the cheese dust.

Starting point is 00:08:49 Yes. Coming off of everything. Also, I was Mort. I misnamed the little cute guy at the end. I always get him mixed up with Maurice. Oh, right. Because I think Maurice is King Julian's other guy who's Cedric the entertainer, but Mort's the other

Starting point is 00:09:04 cute guy. But yeah, no, this is a lot of fun. And of all the characters in Madagascar, certainly it makes the most sense, I think, to spin the penguins off, you know? Yeah. And yeah, I enjoy, you know, I mean, it is your four movies deep, it is a little bit like, okay, what else Can we figure out for these characters to do?

Starting point is 00:09:25 But at the same time, I thought this was a fun premise. Of course, yeah, bringing it back to the zoo, still keeping it sort of in universe and having at least a couple little bookend moments with literally just checking in to remind you like, hey, we're in the Madagascar universe. Yeah. Which I always wonder like what the New York, like part of me wants to now see a movie from the New Yorkers perspective just because like so much weird stuff has happened lately. like they had this like space station fireworks show and then they had this outbreak of monster penguins and giant device like scooting around town and in the circus in the circus yeah so i want to know what they're like it's like doctor who or something where you're like after so many strange

Starting point is 00:10:10 circumstances like life in london or life in new york in this case must just be like super strange uh but yeah no this is a fun you know secret asian movie because they were like Oh, all the penguins became cute in New York, all the ones they saved. So I'm like, oh, I thought there was going to be a cut to of them, all the penguins in just taking it. Or they're just all still in New York, like all squished together in a tank. The entire world's population is now in New York. They're all there. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:40 Maybe the zoo just becomes a penguin zoo. That's what the next movie is about. They try to open up the penguin zoo. There's too many penguins. Too many. They have to bring everybody back to their original home. And then you name the movie after every continent and country they have to return to. So you call it Madagascar, Antarctica, Africa, China.

Starting point is 00:11:02 London. Yeah, exactly. You know, and it'll be like a Fallout Boy song title by the end of it. But no, yeah, this was definitely, you know, it's the most kind of straightforward in the sense that like, yeah, it's a secret agent cartoon. It's got a bunch of, you know, penguin and animal related jokes. I like John Malkovich a good amount. I thought he, you know, he doesn't have to, like, show up for these things, but I thought he showed up. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:11:31 I liked his kooky army of a little octopus who are all pun-name. Like, I'm sure there's a couple I missed because they're all pun names and they're all, like, you know, either two names together and a command or something like that. That was real fun. Yeah. No, yeah. This feels like a kind of despicable me. adjacent thing now is the thing. And you've seen like all of those.

Starting point is 00:11:55 Yeah, I think we watched all of them. This almost reminds me of if the minions were also grew. Yeah. Yeah, I also like just that they're throwing in there Little Moxie. And I know that's not his name, but that's what I call him, that Little Moxie had to prove himself like following that storyline. And I love it that the paperclip came back in such a good way. I was waiting for that.

Starting point is 00:12:20 the whole time, which is great. And what else? What was your favorite? Do you have a favorite part? I'm trying to think. I know, there's so many wild, wacky set pieces. I mean, I loved when he was eating the wolf has tried a dog and he's eating the cheesepubs. Classic.

Starting point is 00:12:38 That was just, it's a classic move. I think I most enjoy, I mean, off the dome, the first thing that comes to mind is when they're doing the gondola chase and they have my man's in the boat trying to keep the music. And he's doing the chasing music. And he's like, yeah, I thought that was quite fun. I like a good bit of diagetic, non-diagetic music humor. I agree. So, yeah. I liked it.

Starting point is 00:13:02 He was even playing in the air, you guys. Mm-hmm. I saw it. We all saw it. That's true. That's true. And then he, you know, changes it up when they have the show down in the alleyway. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:11 And, you know, obviously harkening to Ennio Morricone, Italian composer extraordinaire. He knows how to switch it up. He does. He does. You know, you associate him with spaghetti westerns, but he's got a whole bunch of tones in there. Look at him go. There you go.

Starting point is 00:13:27 Look at him go. Listen, I would give this a seven out of ten. I think I'm, yeah, a seven. I liked it. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe a six and a half. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:42 I'll go like six point eight just because, you know. Around there. It's very fun. It has, again, the, this is more toward this sort of slapstick cartoon side of the spectrum which I appreciate and enjoy and yeah it's not like the most out of the box in terms of like what the core story is but I enjoyed I always enjoy the penguins of all the side characters from a main franchise who work in small doses I feel like they do lend themselves better to a feature length movie than other characters who have been

Starting point is 00:14:16 give it other yeah like side or or used sparingly characters that then get thrust into the spotlight and you're like there's a reason these characters were yeah we're used as side characters or lower status characters or or yeah characters used sparingly uh so yeah i thought they had nicely avoided that here i like all the personalities of the penguins and yeah it's not like overly uh i don't know like it's just enough i feel like like in terms of the stakes and in terms of the story and all that. You know, you get private, private's kidnapped and taken away and held prisoner and all that stuff. And then they're morphed into evil Kevin minions and stuff. And, you know, it's not like the craziest coming of age story for the little guy. But, you know, you know where it's going and it satisfyingly takes you there. And I also like that the North Wind did not turn out to be treacherous.

Starting point is 00:15:11 No, they were good. may have suggested the possibility for that. I thought that was a nice choice. And Kevin's human form, Dr. Brian or whatever, definitely reminded me of a messed up version of Dexter from Dexter's laboratory. Yeah. That's a thing. And, yeah, it was a good fun.

Starting point is 00:15:30 Like, it's four movies deep. These could be a lot worse, you know. Yeah. I thought this was, yeah, this was fun, enjoyable, good comedic timing and madcapness. Fun imagination. And yeah, you know, it still feels like we're in the world of Madagascar, even if we are doing a much more overtly secret agent thing. I think it's, yeah, it's pretty nice. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:15:52 I think their comedic, like, pacing and the tone of the penguins, like, their delivery and comedy, obviously thrives in this movie. But I also think it thrives in Madagascar because they always make me laugh. True that. So that's why I got to say for that. I don't really have any last words except that I had fun. And I laughed. All right. That's good. And that's how I feel about it.

Starting point is 00:16:13 Do we say any, what are we doing? Shout out? I'm trying to find the shoutouts. Yeah. We should do a shoutout. But I don't know where the list is that I made. That I put in this thing. So we're just going to go to the other menu.

Starting point is 00:16:29 And Terry, you're going to pick a couple of names here. We're going to do some damage right now. Who do we got? Who do we got? Who do you want to get? Danny Pancakes. Okay, Danny Pancakes, and who do we got? Okay, Lex.

Starting point is 00:16:48 All right. Chat GPT, here we go. I want to give a shout out to my patron slash super sexy rejects. We should make this plurals so the chat GPT knows what I'm talking about. Their names are Danny. pancakes and Lex and hey I want a scene featuring the two of them and the Penguins of Madagascar so much easier to type and and speaking is so much faster than typing Okay, breaking out of a crazy zoo-related heist situ-pulling off.

Starting point is 00:17:47 There you go. How about that? Pulling off a crazy zoo-related heist. Yes, nice. Yes, I want. In 75 words. Yes. We'll just see what it gives us, and if we need to limit the care of the word count, then we will.

Starting point is 00:18:04 Here we go. All right. This is a great image, though. That's a cool image. Here's your unique scene featuring characters, Danny Pancakes, and Lex. I see at least Danny Pancakes, because you've got the pancakes on top of your head. My goodness. But anyway, here we go.

Starting point is 00:18:21 We got a scene finally. So, uh, get it. Oh, it's coming. Uh, this says the scene is called the Great Zoo Heist. Here we go. Setting. Yes. Interior or maybe exterior.

Starting point is 00:18:31 A bustling zoo after hours. The moon casts. It's a soft glow over animal enclosures. Danny pancakes. I'll be Danny. Okay. You can be Lex. Okay.

Starting point is 00:18:40 And then, you know, we can... Oh, my God. We can each be the... It's never ending. This is... Oh, God. Okay. And now.

Starting point is 00:18:51 Just going and going and going. End. All right. Okay, cool. This isn't too crazy. Sorry, I wish you guys could see what happens here when Chad GBT does its thing. Okay. All right.

Starting point is 00:19:02 All right. We got that. this. Okay, we got it. All right, setting a bustling zoo after hours, moon cast a soft glow over the animal enclosures. Here we go. All right, team, here's the plan. Lex, you're on lookout. Penguins,

Starting point is 00:19:15 you know what to do. Got it, Danny. I'll give a hoot like an hour if I see anyone coming. Gouloski. Status report. All clear, Skipper. Rikos prep the gadgets. Rico grunts affirmatively pulling out a variety of zany gadgets from his

Starting point is 00:19:31 stash. I still don't understand why we're doing this. You're Moxie. You've got to be British. Oh, right. I still don't understand why we're doing this. It's simple, private. We're here to liberate the zoo's newest attraction,

Starting point is 00:19:44 the rare golden feather parakeet. And to prove we're the best at what we do. Quiet down, team. Let's move. The group sneaks through the zoo, dodging security cameras and navigating through the shadows. Approaching the aviary. Remember, we need to be silent as shadows.

Starting point is 00:20:02 No pancakes for everyone. anyone who gets us caught. Hush, Danny, look, the cage. The team reaches the aviary. Eryko quickly works on the lock using his gadgets. Makes a tri-off and sound as the lock clicks open. It's beautiful. No time for Gawkin, soldier.

Starting point is 00:20:21 Grab the bird and let's sked-dattle. Danny carefully picks up the parakeet, which surprisingly seems to cooperate. Mission accomplished. Let's head back for a short stack. They begin to retreat, and unexpected noise alerts the zoo. Security. Hoot! Hoot! Trouble! Vanguids form up. Danny, Lex, with us.

Starting point is 00:20:42 An exhilarating chase ensues, with the team using their unique skills to evade security. Wow. This is more action than I bargained for. Just like in the movies. It's a full stack. Finally, they make it to the exit, the parakeets safe in Danny's arms. Operation Zoo Heist is a success. Good work.

Starting point is 00:21:03 Team couldn't have done it without you, Penguins, and Lex, your lookout skills were top-notch. What's our next adventure, Danny? Oh, I have ideas, but first, let's get this parakeet to its new free home. The group disappears into the night leaving behind a bewildered but unharmed zoo security team, end scene, and hey, Chad GPT expressed a wish of hope that it brought this imaginative scenario to life, I'll say it certainly, certainly did. Thank you guys for being here for supporting the channel for as long as you have. That's the real operation, you know, that's the real heist, is you pledging to the Patreon. Being super sexy.

Starting point is 00:21:49 That's right. Being as sexy as sexy could be. You're cute. Love to have the both of you in a snow globe. And yeah, we'll catch you next month. Be well, people. And happy holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, or if you don't celebrate a holiday, happy life to you. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:04 Be well. Bye.

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