I am spoiled. I am use to seeing animation movies with animation fan and professionals who have a deep love and respect for film and animation, people who have common courtesy in a movie theater.

I almost enjoyed Madagascar, if it wasn`t for the talking cretins on all sides of me and the monster kid next to me. It is a shame, because what I saw of the film looked very good.

I would have liked to have seen more but the kid two seats down from me stood up on his seat about half through the movie and instantly fell between the cushion and the chair back and became trapped and his parents had to do a major jaws of life rescue on his screaming butt.

This is no way to watch a movie. And if this is the way the rest of America sees animated film it is a wonder that any animated movie has a chance of being enjoyed and doing well at the box-office.

Here is hoping that Madagascar gets an Annie nomination so I can see a screening of it with real people and enjoy it the way it was meant to be seen.

Jon, thank you very much for the free ticket. It was a very kind gesture on your part but I really think that the gods were out to get me on this one.

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