The Circus Rescue

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – when it comes to milking a good idea, you really have to hand it to the Hollywood film producers. In the first Madagascar movie, Alex the Lion, best friend Marty the Zebra along with Gloria the Hippo and the shy Giraffe Melman escape from the New York Central Zoo and somehow end up in Madagascar where they experience what it is like to be out in the wild for the first time. In Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa – the four try to leave Madagascar in a plane but crash land in an African Sanctuary where Alex is reunited with his family. One would have thought that the franchise would end there but alas it did not.

In this latest installment – the four of them still want to return to their zoo in New York. They somehow manage to travel to Monaco in pursuit of the Penguins who ingeniously flew there in their own plane. The Penguins (with the help of some chimps) are using the golds & gems they mined in Africa to make their fortune at the casino. When the animals are discovered, overzealous French animal control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois is called in to nab them. Her relentless pursuit of these animals soon lands them among the ranks of a group of circus animals traveling by train to Rome. The newly introduced circus animals such as Vitaly the Tiger, Gia the Jaguar and the soft-heart Stefano the Sea Lion are welcome additions to the movie.

The movie has many funny moments…I love it when King Julien was courting a circus bear that is way bigger than him & rides a Ducati Bike and just about every scene that features DuBois. Plus it’s better than Part 2 and more colorful. As for the rest of the movie, just let the logic fly out of the window :) If they want to continue to make money out of it – I think that the animals next stop will be in Asia since they have already covered the African & Europe continent…they will probably land in China and make friends with the native Pandas.