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An Australian animal with a british accent?


WOW, someone knows a lot about animals [not]! In this film there is an Australian mammal (koala) with a British accent, I don’t really know of any British animals because they aren’t that famous, but it just goes to show that however wrote this film doesn’t know a lot about geography or animals in general because if animals did talk, a koala would speak Australian, duh! That is one of the many errors made in this predictable Madagascar rip off peice of garbage!!!!

R.I.P. River Phoenix

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WOW, someone knows alot about this movie. In this film about animals living in a zoo there is an Australian mammal (koala), who CLEARLY states that he is from London.

I don't get people like you, who can complain about an Australian mammal, which as was explained, was raised in a London Zoo, having an English accent. Yet is doesn't phase you in the slightest that all the other animals which are not native to North America, all speak with a North American non-accent. It also apparently didn't strike you as odd in the slightest that the flamingos were Scottish, the Crocodiles had Manhattan accents, the vultures were cockney, the dung beetles were German and the pigeons were Indian. You think maybe the filmmakers were in on a joke there? Nah, couldn't be right?

Oh right, because you never actually saw the movie. But I'm sure your opinion on it is just as valid for not having seen it, right?

If you actually did any research at all, you'd also know that the Wild was being made BEFORE Madagascar. And if you were able to predict that a bunch of dance crazed Wildebeasts were going to use the lions to ascend to the top of the food chain, well then I can't imagine you've ever been surprised by anything ever.

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The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Theria
Infraclass: Marsupialia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial

Marsupials are mammals in which the female typically has a pouch (called the marsupium, from which the name 'Marsupial' derives) in which it rears its young through early infancy.

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If we get beyond the surreal idea that animals talk and have accents, then you have the fact that none of the African animals talk with the right accent or language, as they speak English with American accents.

Hey its a kids movie and a really ordinary one at that.

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