News - Central Park Zoo
**1/2 (86m | PG) A largely forgettable, computer-animated screwball adventure about four animals who escape from the Central Park Zoo and eventually end up lost on a tropical island, "Madagascar" has good energy, fairly steady chuckles for kids (fart jokes and spit-takes galore), and a few out-loud laughs for adults (mostly stemming from hilarious homages to movies from "Chariots of Fire" to "American Beauty" to "Planet of the Apes").
The animated adventures of four escaped zoo animals will kick off a weekly series of movies under the stars in downtown Jacksonville. Madagascar, the 2005 film that follows Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria when they leave Central Park Zoo only to end up on a strange island, will be shown today.
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