Madagascar 2 DVD Review

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa is the much-anticipated sequel to the hugely successful animated film, Madagascar. In the second instalment, audiences get more of everything they loved in the first movie, including the evil, manipulative penguins, more of crazy Julian, king of the lemurs, more musical bits of classic rock by exotic animals, and many, many more zebras, hippos, giraffes and lions.

In the first Madagascar film, the coddled quartet of zoo animals found themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar in a misguided attempt to find their home in the wild. Madagascar 2 sees the funny foursome fail their attempt to fly back to the New York Zoo with Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) in an animal reservation on the African continent, accompanied by the four lunatic penguins, the deraged lemur king (voiced by Sascha Baron Cohen).

While in Africa, it dawns on Alex that in wild coincidence, they are stranded on the country where Alex was born – and where his father is still the alpha lion – and where he evil uncle plots to take over.