Movie Reviews - Free Family Film Festival

It's the start of summer for my nine year old and we've been to the first FFFF of the summer. Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa. Returning to our theater for a week (3 days in all tuesday through thursday) brings back Ben Stiller and company to cartoon series started in 2005.

In this one, Alex and his friends Marty, Melman and Gloria are still stranded in a lost country and are trying to get back to New York and safe, comfortable home. What's wrong is they are relying on the brains of a group of penguins to get them there. There was a few new gags for this episode and the laughs were abound.

I'm glad they brought this one back for the summer program because I missed it when it was in the theater the first time. And with this movie the children in the theater are part of the "Magic". My son buried his head into my shoulder for a few of the scenes when I would make oh, and ah noises for emotional moments.

For more theaters with this program, check out Regals Free Family Film Fest page at: http://www.regmovies.com/nowshowing/familyfilmfestivalschedule.aspx

And the Madagascar 2 trailer from IMDb at: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2831286553/