Those who've never watched the Penguins of Madagascar animated series on Nick and only know Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private as Madagascar scene-stealers may wonder if these spry spy-crafters are capable of holding their own as leads. And they are. Though expect a story light on heart and full of noise, which may just what you're looking for if you're tired of having your heartstrings plucked at.
One of the most refreshing things about the penguins is that their popularity is a bit of a fluke and because of that their voices are gorgeously those of non-celebrities. In an animated landscape filled with Ken Jeongs, Jonah Hills, Bill Haders, and Wanda Sykes-es, the espionage-obsessed penguins are played by animators, artists, and assistant directors who worked on Madagascar.
Not that Tom McGrath (Skipper), Chris Miller (Kowalski), Conrad Vernon (Rico) and Christopher Knights (Private) are strangers to voice work, but they were background
So to have them to ascend out of a film franchise anchored by four animals voiced by celebrities will always be one of the best things about these little flightless fowls.
the Penguins of Madagascar Providing the celeb-voice quota here however, since it is an animated movie must, is Benedict Cumberbatch as the refined gray wolf leader of a rival (and better funded) secret agent group called the North Wind, whose team also includes Ken Jeong (see!) as a seal, The Americans' Annet Mahendru as a snow owl, and Peter Stormare (in his first non-villainous role?) as a polar bear.
As a tight-knit espionage crew, the North Wind are incapable of believing that any quartet as crude and unassuming as the titular penguins could ever be capable of thwarting the global schemes of John Malkovich's evil purple octopus, Dr. Octavius "Dave" Brine. So it all becomes a race between the two competing animal spy groups to save - *drumroll* - all of penguin-kind!
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