Madagascar 2 : Escape to Africa

They are back after a successful outing in 2005. Animations on animals are usually box office guarantee but of course a good story and script is critical. Probably because in real life animals can't talk, so making them communicate is already somehow maybe by default funny. Kungfu Panda was a good example and a sequel is in the making.

This time round, they are back to Africa where Alex came from. Just to recap, Alex is the lion that famous in NY where he perform dance moves that will make judges from 舞林大道 giving him 10/10. Marty is the zebra who always talk non-stop. Melman is the giraffe that has a crush on Gloria, the hippo. Not the usual combination ... but it prompted a sequel.

So what is the problem this time ? They were heading back to NY in a plane which had to be slingshot off to take off and also where the captains and pilots are penguins. You get disasters when you see such factors. I like the part where the penguins were brain-storming what could be the blinking red light means, which was signalling low fuel, the captain requested for the manual and smashed it on the light.

They crashed landed while Gloria slept through it. Bad news was the penguins decided to rebuild the plane, it is possible in animation. Good news was that they found out that they were in Africa, where lots of their own kind lived there. Alex even reunited with his parents, his father Zuba is so called the leader of the reserve, with Makunga waiting for his chance to take over ! He saw Alex coming home as a good opportunity. He tells Zuba that Alex needs to go through the rite of passage, basically to win a fight. Problem was Alex only can dance but the biggest problem was Alex really thought it was some sort of a 舞林大道 competition.

Alex lost but Zuba couldn't banished his own son, thus he gave up his position. Makunga got what he wanted. Things got worse, Alex and Zuba quarelled. His other friends weren't any good, Melman somehow became a witch doctor but believed that he was going to die. Gloria thought she hooked on the most wanted hippo around, Moto Moto, but then he was only physically interested in her. Marty who thought he was unique, can do his acrobatic spit water trick, soon found out about 1,565,768,989,144,565 other zebras could also do so ... and got into a bad arguement with Alex

Then more problem ... water dried up one day.

But this kind movie always ends well. Alex and Marty friend friend back and went to find water. Only to find Nana, the karate chopping and kungfu fighting granny, Alex got caught. Marty went back to get help. Melman found out he won't die and found love with Gloria. Then with the new plane which was build with the help of the monkeys, off they go to save Alex. *That was after the penguins gave in the monkeys demands of maternity leave !! Hahahahhaa !! 8/10