DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Review: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

  • Bob Funn · 1 year ago
    Try the original 1963 episode of "Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 feet" starring William goddamn Shatner.

    Kids....


    I'm surprised to hear you praise the pop culture references tho as people usually complain about them first. I have no problem with them if they are done well... Like anything else I guess.


    Funny that.
  • Brian C. Gibson · 1 year ago
    Who is William Shatner?
  • Mitsu · 1 year ago
    I find it interesting that even kids movies need to have some adult humor and content ("adult" meaning allusions to old movies or events) if they want it to both do well at the box office and to be enjoyable by all. Even watching the Disney classics, I discover this a lot of, particularly in Aladdin, with the Genie blabbing off about famous dates, peoples, and events.

    If kids films require references to things only adults would know, does that mean regular movies (not made for kids) need references or things that only kids would understand? But I suppose since we've all BEEN kids, we can appreciate kid humor at times; I suppose kid humor would be slapstick and bright colors? Just a thought.
  • Bob Funn · 1 year ago
    The whole idea comes from the original looney tunes where there would be references to pop culture/current events or even very obscure sexual/racial innuendo meant to keep the adults interested while they screen the cartoons for the kids before the main movie.