Madagascar poster

Madagascar

Underdog Below average but still in the conversation
2005 · Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy · Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Madagascar sits at 43% across 233 matchups — below average, but close enough that a shift in the voting pool could change the picture. No round offers a foothold — below average at every stage. Fun, frictionless, and entirely disposable — the kind of animated comedy that everyone has seen and almost no one would go to bat for. In brackets, it's a pleasant memory that folds the moment it faces anything with real weight. Among Eric Darnell's films on BingeBracket, nothing beats it. 6.1s avg decision time (platform avg: 3.5s). This one makes people think.

Synopsis

Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.

Round 1
45.4%
64/141
Semifinals
46%
Finals
24.1%
The ceiling

45% opening, 46% semis, 24% finals. No round breaks above average, but the semis at 46% come closest — that's where Madagascar shows the most fight.

The matchup with Antz is a genuine coin flip at 50% — neither film has found an edge. Madagascar owns Chicken Run at 67% but The Wild Robot flips the script entirely: just 0%.

Closest Rival
Dominates
Kryptonite
Toy Story
85.7%
Shrek
81.8%

DreamWorks Originals is Madagascar's bracket: it clears the early rounds consistently but meets its ceiling in the final against Shrek (18%).

Of the 2 Eric Darnell films tracked on BingeBracket, Madagascar leads. Antz at 17% is the other entry — a 0% gap between them.

Antz 16.5%
BingeBracket Record
43%
Win Rate
#27 of 43 in Family #39 of 57 from the 2000s #1 of 2 Eric Darnell films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
Featured Tournament

#5 of 8 in DreamWorks Originals.

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Shrek #1
Kung Fu Panda #2
How to Train Your Dragon #3
The Prince of Egypt #4
Madagascar #5
The Wild Robot #6
Chicken Run #7
Antz #8
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