Penguins of Madagascar

Directed by:  Eric Darnell & Simon J. Smith

Memorable quotes:

Narrator: Antarctica; An inhospitable wasteland but even here, on the earth frozen bottom, you find life. And not just any life: penguins. Joyous, frolicking, wiggling, cute and cuddly life.

Skipper: Seriously, does anyone even know where we're marching to?
Penguin n°1: Who cares?
Penguin n°2: I question nothing!
Penguin n°3: Me too!
Penguin n°4: Me too!

Skipper: I like it! Hey, this could be our thing! Let's call it 'the high one'.

Skipper: Hey, everybody seen that? That's an egg! Someone gonna go get it?
Random penguin: We can't do that.
Skipper: Why not?
Second random penguin: Well, it's a dangerous world out there and we're just penguins! You know, nothing but cute and cuddly.
Third random penguin: Yeah, why do you think there are all these documentary crews filming us?
Fourth random penguin: Well sorry kids. You know, we lose a few eggs every year. It's just nature.

Skipper: Oh right, nature. I guess it makes sense but something, something deep down in my gut tells me that it makes no sense at all. You know what? I reject nature!

Kowalski: The old ship! No one has ever returned from there alive.

Skipper: Oh, leopard seals.Nature's snakes.
Kowalski: Aren't snakes nature's snakes?
Skipper: How should I know? I live in the flipping frozen tundra!

Kowalski: I'd recommend firing it now!
Skipper: Hold on!
Kowalski: We really should fire it.
Skipper: Not til we see the white of its eyes.
Kowalski: They're mostly pupils, very little white, almost none.
Skipper: They gotta have a little bit of white, right?
Kowalski: None whatsoever.
Skipper: What if they look very far to the left?

Skipper: Kowalski, analysis?
Kowalski: We are really good at this.

Private: Hello, are you my family?
Kowalski: You don't have a family and we're all going to die, sorry.

Skipper: Where did Private go?
Kowalski: Oh there he is. D3.
Skipper: Oh, Private! How much is he?
Kowalski: He is 3 dollars and 50 cents, sir.
Skipper: That's outrageous!

Kowalski: Sir, the machine is alive!

Skipper: I don't like you attitude, vending machine. Or your prices! Release them!

Skipper: Kowalski, analysis!
Kowalski: All evidence indicates... I ate too many cheezy dibbles!

Skipper: Rico, bust us out of this delicious prison!

Private: It sounds awful.
Dave: Oh, it was. I came to realize some creatures are born to get all the love. The rest of us get nothing! The only thing that has kept me going all these years is my burning fearful revenge and my precious souvenirs snow globes collection.

Skipper: You can't blame us for what happened to you.
Dave: Uh, can! That's how this whole revenge thing works. And with this, I finally have the power to destroy you.

Dave: Nicolas, cage them!

Skipper: Kowalski, remember our little talk about true but unhelpful comments?
Kowalski: Yes, sir.
Skipper: Sometimes, we just have to wing it.

Skipper: Private, dibble me.

Classified: My name is classified.
Skipper: Classified, eh? What is that, Dutch? Can't really hear the accent.
Classified: Excuse me?
Skipper: There is the accent!
Classified: My name isn't classified. My name is classified because I am the leader of this great team.

Skipper: Rico, he is our demolishing expert. He destroyed that chair, for the sheer fun of it. No reason at all. And then there is Private. He is erm...he is sort of our secretary/mascot. Cute.
Corporal: And cuddly!

Skipper: We were never mates. There was no mating.

Classified: We are going to save those helpless penguins because we are the North Wind and no one, no one, breaks the wind!

Skipper: Right now, I need a tail on that tooch and the cutest smile you've got.

Skipper: You just mermaid my day.

Skipper: But can you fly it man?
Kowalski: There is only one way to find out.

Kowalski: No, I still can't read.

Eva: Gentlemen, there is only one way to resolve this.
Kowalski: We should kiss.
Eva: Plan off.
Kowalski: Yeah, plan off. That's what I was gonna say.

Skipper: With Private freshly liberated we celebrate with a well earned high one!

Classified: David the octopus, show me your tentacles! All of them.

Classified: Does anybody speak octopus?

Classified: You free us, we give you fishes.

Dave: I'm happy and yet now that I have my revenge I feel empty as if what I needed all along was more revenge! In fact, Robin writes this down, tomorrow we move on to kittens, then puppies, pandas...

Skipper: I hope you find happiness Dave.

Plot: When penguins start to disappear all the zoos of the world, Skipper, Rico, Kowalski and Private discover that the infamous Dave the octopus is behind it all and they must do everything in their power to stop him.

Trailer:

Review: 

Upon watching the trailer, I truly thought Penguins of Madagascar would be extremely funny. I loved them in the Madagascar movies, so I thought there was no way this film could go wrong...  My mistake!
Yes, the penguins are cute and cuddly and there are a few jokes that I did really like, and I also enjoyed hearing a few familiars voices such as John Malkovich and Benedicte Cumberbatch's.
Apart from that, I found myself looking at my watch, hoping the movie would end soon. When I started losing interest I believe I wasn't even halfway through...
The plot/dialogues/script was pretty weak and as an adult it was really hard for me to just remain seated throughout the film.
Now, I do believe that young children should enjoy that film, if only for the cute animals on screen. As an adult however, that's a whole different story...