In my neck of the woods, Madagascar was the first drive-in movie of the summer. Me’n’the kids clambered on to the hood of the truck at sundown and settled in with our hot dogs and shakes. And we had a goodish time. We especially appreciated the dance number whose entire lyric is:
It’s sung by a lemur voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen (i.e., Ali G) and he’s so insinuating we bellowed it all the way home.I like to move it move itI like to move it move itI like to I like to I like to [pause] move it.
But the rest of the movie pretty much faded away to nothing as we pulled out of the drive-in. Whereas Hollywood in general is having a crummy summer (as discussed a couple of weeks back), children’s movies in particular are having a terrible one.
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