89 mins. Featuring the voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric The Entertainer, Bernie Mac, Sherri Shepherd, Alec Baldwin. Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath.
MADAGASCAR: Escape 2 Africa is a colourful computer animated sequel for the entire family which cheekily recycles the plot of The Lion King.
Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath’s film strands its menagerie of misfits in the wild, where they discover the courage to follow their hearts and to reclaim a birthright as king of the jungle.
As in the first film, Sacha Baron Cohen merrily scene-steals as a crazy lemur, who enjoys the finer things in life when he’s not shaking his furry booty to Reel 2 Real’s infectious dance anthem, I Like To Move It.
Kids will squeal at the slapstick and bright colours; parents and older audiences will have to search much harder for amusement.
Alex the lion (voiced by Stiller), Marty the zebra (Rock), Melman the hypochondriac giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippopotamus (Smith) are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York’s Central Park Zoo.
Boarding a rickety plane with ring-tailed lemur King Julien the 13th (Cohen), his second-in-command Maurice (Cedric The Entertainer) and the penguins - Private, Rico, Skipper and Kowalski - the animals crash-land shy of their destination, ending up on the plains of Africa.
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