Madagascar poster

Madagascar

Front-Runner Starts strong, fades late
2005 · Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy · Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

49% overall with a pattern worth knowing: Madagascar opens well and fades. Early-round voters favor it; the films it faces in finals tend not to. 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.

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
57.4%
Where it thrives
Semifinals
48.1%
13/27
Finals
23.1%
The ceiling

The 34-point gap between opening round and final tells the story. Madagascar wins when the bracket field is wide; when it narrows to the best, the margins flip.

The matchup with Kung Fu Panda is a genuine coin flip at 50% — neither film has found an edge. Madagascar owns How to Train Your Dragon at 67% but Shrek flips the script entirely: just 0%.

Closest Rival
Dominates
Kryptonite
Shrek
100.0%
Toy Story
83.3%

DreamWorks Originals is Madagascar's bracket: it clears the early rounds consistently but meets its ceiling in the final against Shrek (0%).

Antz 16.7%
BingeBracket Record
49%
Win Rate
#20 of 39 in Family #22 of 47 from the 2000s
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
Featured Tournament

#4 of 8 in DreamWorks Originals.

Where should it rank? Cast your vote.

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