Movie Time: Let Your Kids Learn About Life & Science, While They Laugh!

Genre: Animated/Comedy

Mdasgascar 1: This is comical kid friendly saga is tale about animals such as a philosophical hippo(Gloria), eccentric and overly conscious giraffe(Melman), one self absorbs star-famed show lion(Alex), 1 restless zebra(Marty), 3 monkeys, one of which signs, and the other has a brain, but cannot read, leaving the third one to be a puppet and 3 tricky NY penguins, that has a self declared mob-boss like leader, and a few other exotic animals.

The Madagascar plot starts out at a zoo, when the Marty, the zebra, reflects on his zoo life, and discovers that he has spent his entire life in a zoo, whilst comparing it to a prison. He get homesick and decides to make a break for it. He escapes from the NY Zoo, after his birthday party and tours NY. When his fellow zoo mates discover that their pal Marty has escaped, that is when the movie really begins. Alex, Melman, and Gloria, discover that Marty has left the zoo, and that is when they go after him, exploring New York City, causing a ruckus; and scaring New Yorkers, as they rampage through town, searching for their friend. Their search party causes such chaos and commotion in the streets of NY. They party get recaptured by zoo officials, banished from the zoo, deemed dangerous, punished for their great escape, and packed on a ship to be relocated. During the trip, things go terribly wrong, when the peguins escape and take over the ship, and crash in Madagascar. Thus the movie begins...

Although the beginning sounds a bit sad, it gets amazingly funny. The entire movie will have your children laughing, and even you will laugh because it's filled with puns, educational facts, political satire, and jabs at our society. While the group is being shipped to Madagascar, the penguins escape their enclosure and take over the ship, causing it to be cast away and shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. Thus the adventure begins. This movie is great for children and parents because it teaches many morals about life and how one should learn to live with their situations in life and endure. This is also a great movie that gives your child an early lesson on geography!

Madagascar 2: This movie has the same fascinating and hilarious characters that it had in the first movie. The foursome are still stuck on the island of Madagascar, and this time, the penguins mastermind a plan to go to their homeland of Africa. They're homesick. This is a bittersweet symphony, when the plane crashes, landing in the center of disappointment and the penguins miles away from home. The three feathered and flightless friends hatch a plan to build a plane to get off the island... However, their plot to take flight to the homeland of the United States fails, and they crash in the heart of Africa, linking Alex to his home pride.... This is a must see.

Ice Age:

Genre: Animated/Comedy

In the beginning, when the world was once connected by way of glaciers, the world started to melt, and continents floated apart, separating species and prides of prehistoric animals, four unlikely species meet as they try to find their way back home. This cartoon is about the prehistoric strife of animals, and those that struggles to survived the Ice Age, fighting for food and shelter from the cold and harsh elements. The movie is centered around the beginning of time, when dinosaurs and mammoths roamed the earth, and giants rules the world.

Ice Age, educates children about the actual strife and tribulations that humans and people faced during the Ice age, while entertaining them as well, introducing them to actual creatures that existed during this times, such as wooly mammoths, saber tooth tigers, giant rodents, and an assortment of other mammals.

The main characters, Manny the Mammoth, and Diego, the Saber-toothed tiger, a sloth, and a nutty squirrels meet, as Manny and Diego try to unite a human child to his father... It's really a movie that teaches children and adults about the importance of family and the parental bond.

Chicken Little:
Genre: Animated/Comedy

A tale about a young feathered lad, science, life, and learning about the scientific method. This brainy, witty, feathered little chicken is a science geek, but has a lot to learn about the world and how science works when he an acorn falls from the sky, sending him into a panic attack, thinking that the sky is falling and that the world is ending. On a mission to prove his notions to be corrects, about the worlds end and the possible end to civilization, this is when he discovers that he is wrong and that the world is not ending, nor is the sky falling. He is joined by his closest barn mates, Abby Mallard (a duck), and Fish that walks on land... Yes a fish that walks on land...

You gotta see this flick! Teaches your children about science, how to not freak out about big things, and that everything problem does eventually have a solution, but that all problems must be worked out carefully! This movie also gives parents an idea of how children picture the world around them and how they find ways to adapt and coping mechinisms.