This spin off is a breezy good time chocked full of smart humor and a nicely developed story.

| Feb 11, 2022

Penguins of Madagascar is a reasonably diverting romp featuring a few visually arresting set-pieces, including a fun scene showing the penguins aboard gondolas in Venice, but there's not really enough here to keep grown-ups fully engaged...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2021

Good, zany fun. No lessons will be learned, no morals taught, nothing gained but a good time at the movies.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Exhausting, uninvolving, and painfully overloading.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

A witty, warm and wonderful dibblicious treat!

| Dec 14, 2019

Penguins of Madagascar is a passably entertaining time at the multiplex, with inspired moments offered by the four lead penguins.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

It's actually really funny. It reminded me of the first Naked Gun movie.

| Original Score: B | May 3, 2019

A clever, rapid-fire barrage of pop culture references and dizzying one-liners, all delivered with a self-awareness that only adds to the fun.

| Jan 25, 2019

Sorpresivamente, Pingüinos de Madagascar es una entretenida y reconfortante animación que a fin de cuentas termina siendo más astuta de lo que realmente parece ser y muy superior a cualquier entrega de Madagascar.

| Original Score: 7.5/ 10 | Jan 19, 2019

The results are usually deft, paced fast as coherence will allow and often very, very cute.

| Original Score: B | Jan 8, 2019

The super-spy wannabes seize the big-screen spotlight for the first time with "Penguins of Madagascar," a funny, frenetic and ultimately forgettable spin-off.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2018

The pace is brisk - frenzied, even - the animation top-notch and the script is full of witticisms, puns ... and there are jokes aplenty for the kiddies as well as belly-busters for the grown-ups.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2017

Thank goodness, the film-makers did not try to make sense of this spin-off from the Madagascar series by making a prequel or sequel. What they have produced is a glorious non-sequitur.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2017

There are enough sight gags and silly jokes in Penguins of Madagascar to make children laugh. But a generation-spanning film, this one isn't.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

Directed by Eric Darnell and Simon J Smith, Penguins of Madagascar is relentlessly madcap, happily all over the place, and almost awesome in its refusal to adhere to any coherence.

| Jun 21, 2016

This movie can babysit your kids! And as the reviewer often recommends in regards to movies such as this, a good adult nap in a cineplex is an awesome thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2016

Thoroughly enjoyable and unreservedly recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2016

Not a bad way to kill a few hours these holidays.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2016

There's nothing of substance here, but there needn't be. It's just pure escapist fun, wittily delivered.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 19, 2015

From its icily satirical start to its madcap end, this is more than a snappy, silly spin-off. It takes those cutest widdle critters, then cannon-fires them through a story cannily undercutting the cuteness factor on which so much animal animation relies.

| May 25, 2015