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Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent – Madagascar style.
With Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, the animation franchise picks up with Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) driven to return to their beloved New York City. With ‘Operation Penguin Extraction’, the animals infiltrate Monte Carlo, where their penguin and monkey friends have been partying and gambling. The plan is to get them to use their special airplane to get the zoo animals back home.
The gang make good on their mission until they run into Captain Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand). DuBois is the excessively motivated Monaco animal-control officer, an alpha-female boss who is motivated to case her very first lion for stuffing.
Getting out of Monte Carlo with the whole gang in tow and wicked DuBois close behind, the zoo-mates jump a train carrying a Russian-Italian traveling circus troupe. It’s up to the gang to save this group after their master sells out and leaves them. One of their key attractions is ego-driven tiger Vitaly (Bryan Cranston), who blew his act and his courage by daring to jump through a flaming hoop not much bigger than what might be a wrestler’s wedding ring. Another in the troupe is Gia (Jessica Chastain), an exotic large Italian jaguar with Gina Lollobrigida eyes who bonds with Alex personally and as a trapeze act. And again on board the franchise are the self-proclaimed lemur monarch, King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), his lackey Mort (Andy Richter), and right-hand aide Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer).
Children will adore the film’s surge of animals, including extras like the traveling circus’ Italian sea lion Stefano (Martin Short), the horses, dogs and elephants. Adults will enjoy satiric references to a Times Square gone too corporate and an extremely popular circus (Cirque du Soleil) gone too human. watch Madagascar 3.
Action scenes are spectacular, as are glorious evocations of the film’s locales: New York, London, Monte Carlo, Rome and the Swiss Alps. The film’s music is also a hoot, including DuBois’ homage to Edith Piaf in fractured French and a blast of Andrea Bocelli schmaltz.
Perhaps most amazing is the high-quality animation, especially those elaborate and ingeniously devised action scenes, and the {final|last} circus acts in mega-stadiums, the light shows and the inevitable comeuppance for the villain. It’s all jaw-droppingly dazzling—the details, the color design, the kinetic fire. Clearly, there’s nothing that animation and visual effects can’t deliver. watch new movies
