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Madagascar
(2005)
This movie focuses on four
residents and "stars" of the Central Park Zoo in New
York City who are also best friends: a lion (Stiller), a zebra
(Rock), a giraffe (Schwimmer) and a pregnant hippo (Smith). When
one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo
looking for him, and eventually all four are captured and put in
boxes to ship them back to the continent their species are
originally from: Africa. An accident at sea, however, strands them
on the shore of Madagascar. Having had humans take care of them
their entire life, the four know nothing of surviving in the wild,
or that one of them, the lion, is genetically predisposed to eat
his three best friends. Exploring their surroundings, the four
friends soon meet the Malagasy locals (a type of lemur given to
having loud "rave-like" dance parties) and their
carnivorous enemies, the fousas. As the two sides try to use these
four new, strange (and large) friends to their benefit, our heroes
are also confronted with the reality of their predestined roles in
nature.
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Ali G
Indahouse: The Movie (2002)
On his popular TV show, comedian
Sacha Baron Cohen uses his imbecile character Ali G to interview
unsuspecting subjects and mine comedy from the clash between the
cultures of faux hip-hop and self-important politics. In this
feature film, Ali G becomes part of an evil Chancellor's plot to
expel the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The British wannabe
gangsta appears so infernally clueless that the Chancellor
(Charles Dance) believes it will be easily to manipulate him in
the campaign to oust his nemesis. However, he doesn't count on Ali
G's ability to unknowingly to stumble into greatness. His
"Keep It Real" slogan fires the public's imagination and
Ali G (and the Prime Minister) become more popular than ever
before.
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