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...Stiller), a zebra (Chris Rock), a giraffe (David Schwimmer) and a hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) forsake the friendly confines of Central Park Zoo and end up on you-know-which island off Africa. The plot, by co-directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and co-writers Mark Burton and Billy Frolick, asks whether a carnivore, the lion, can keep from eating his friends...
Basically, Nolan's job is to revive a troubled studio franchise, and you can feel him struggling to reanimate the neurotic dislocations of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel
Albarn should have been more concerned that his new producer didn't have much experience producing. "I've been making music for 10 years," says Burton. "But a lot of that was me sitting in my bedroom." Despite his greenness, Burton announced early on that he doesn't like happy songs ("I'm just really into dark music and minor chords") and that he wanted to turn his back on sampling, which, at that point, was the only thing he was known for. Having spent most of the '90s with Blur, warring with Oasis' Gallagher brothers over the very important...
...After Burton moved into Albarn's London studio-ever the bedroom prodigy, he had most of his equipment shipped from his Los Angeles home-the duo settled into a comfortable routine of routinelessness. "We just chased ideas and tried anything we wanted," says Burton. Those are words to chill a record executive's heart. And, sure enough, so many ideas were tried, chopped up and discarded that production went well past its initial deadline. When EMI announced in February that Gorillaz's and Coldplay's albums were both delayed, the company's stock dropped 16%. Burton says that gave...
...Dead that in the future, according to Gorillaz, we'll need more sunscreen-but the music achieves the same kind of thrilling dislocation as vintage Sun Ra, without any of the unfortunate cat-yelping antimelodiousness. Melodies are everywhere; they just take a while to emerge because Albarn and Burton have stirred them all together. Dirty Harry has the shimmering keyboards of The Message and the eerily blank kiddie chorus of Another Brick in the Wall. O Green World has a Song 2 guitar line and a countermelody seemingly by Atari. Reference points from rock, rap, dance, dub and world music...