Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Directors:

Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath

Writers:

Etan Cohen (written by)
Eric Darnell (written by)
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Release Date:

7 November 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

Still together. Still lost!

Plot:

The sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", in which New York Zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo...

Plot Keywords:

Madagascar | Zoo | Giraffe | Sequel | Lion

Awards:

1 win & 7 nominations

Cast

Ben Stiller	...	Alex (voice)
Chris Rock	...	Marty / Additional Zebras (voice)
David Schwimmer	...	Melman (voice)
Jada Pinkett Smith	...	Gloria (voice)
Sacha Baron Cohen	...	Julien (voice)
Cedric the Entertainer	...	Maurice (voice)
Andy Richter	...	Mort (voice)
Bernie Mac	...	Zuba (voice)
Alec Baldwin	...	Makunga (voice)
Sherri Shepherd	...	Mom (voice)
Will i Am	...	Moto Moto (voice) (as Will.I.Am)
Elisa Gabrielli	...	Nana (voice)
Tom McGrath	...	Skipper / Lemur #1 (voice)
Chris Miller	...	Kowalski (voice)
Christopher Knights	...	Private (voice)
Conrad Vernon	...	Mason (voice)
Quinn Dempsey Stiller	...	Baby Alex (voice)
Declan Swift	...	Baby Alex (voice)
Fred Tatasciore	...	Teetsi / Poacher #1 / Elephant (voice)
Eric Darnell	...	Joe the Witch Doctor / Poacher #2 (voice)
Willow Smith	...	Baby Gloria (voice)
Thomas Stanley	...	Baby Marty (voice)
Zachary Gordon	...	Baby Melman (voice)
Meredith Vieira	...	Newscaster #1 (voice)
Lesley Stahl	...	Newscaster #2 (voice)
Al Roker	...	Newscaster #3 (voice)
David Soren	...	Lemur #2 (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Guide (voice)
Stephen Kearin	...	Stephen / Tourist with Video Camera / Rhino (voice)
Dan O'Connor	...	Tourist with University Shirt / Cape Buffalo (voice)
Edie Mirman	...	Telephone Recording (voice)
Stacy Ferguson	...	Hippo Girlfriend (voice)
Harland Williams	...	Additional Giraffe (voice)
Danny Jacobs	...	Tourist with New York T-Shirt (voice)
Bridget Hoffman	...	Female Tourist (voice)
Terrence Hardy Jr.	...	Lion Cub (voice)
Conner Rayburn	...	Little Giraffe (voice)
Holly Dorff	...	Fish (voice)
David P. Smith	...	Bobby the Dik Dik (voice) (as David Smith)
Lynnanne Zager	...	Lioness (voice)
Jackie Gonneau	...	Additional Dik Dik (voice)
John Eric Bentley	...	Additional Dialogue (voice) (as John Bentley)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kathryn Feller	...	Ostritch #1 (voice)
Michele Specht	...	Nurse Sandy (voice)

Directed by
Eric Darnell
Tom McGrath

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Etan Cohen		written by
Eric Darnell		written by
Tom McGrath		written by

Produced by
Lorne Orleans	....	IMAX version
Mireille Soria	....	producer
Mark Swift	....	producer

Original Music by
Hans Zimmer

Film Editing by
Mark A. Hester
H. Lee Peterson

Production Design by
Kendal Cronkhite

Production Management
Wendy Berry	....	production supervisor
Jason Bertsch	....	production supervisor
Sarah Counnas	....	technology production manager
Alison Fedrick Donahue	....	production supervisor
Jannette Eng	....	production supervisor
Ryan Harris	....	production supervisor
Christopher Leahy	....	production supervisor
Diana K. Lee	....	production supervisor
Robyn Mesher	....	production supervisor
Craig Rittenbaum	....	production supervisor
Erik Vignau	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Kelly Asbury	....	storyboard artist
Jessie Carbonaro	....	production supervisor
Gary Graham	....	storyboard artist
Kory Heinzen	....	visual development artist
Tim Heitz	....	storyboard artist
Travis Koller	....	visual development artist
Bryan Gregg LaShelle	....	visual development
Kenard Pak	....	visual development
Ruben Perez	....	visual development
Cecile Picard	....	sculptor
Caprice Ann Ridgeway	....	art researcher
Ryan Savas	....	art department production assistant
James Wood Wilson	....	production illustrator

Sound Department
James Bolt	....	sound mixer (as Jim Bolt)
Jeremy Bowker	....	sound effects assistant
Dustin Cawood	....	sound effects editor
Brian Chumney	....	assistant dialogue editor
Blake R. Cornett	....	sound recordist
Sean England	....	foley mixer
Will Files	....	sound designer
Will Files	....	supervising sound editor
Sue Fox	....	foley supervisor (as Suzanne Fox)
Josh Gold	....	assistant sound effects editor
Pete Horner	....	sound effects editor
Roy Latham	....	original dialogue mixer
Jessica Lemes da Silva	....	foley recordist
Dennis Leonard	....	supervising sound editor
Cory Mandel	....	sound re-recording mixer
Andy Nelson	....	sound re-recording mixer
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr editor
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr recordist
Jonathan Null	....	dialogue supervisor (as Jon Null)
Larry Oatfield	....	foley editor (as E. Larry Oatfield)
Jason Oliver	....	sound recordist
Troy Porter	....	adr mixer
Mac Smith	....	sound effects editor
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer
Randy Thom	....	sound designer
Dennie Thorpe	....	foley artist
Larry Winer	....	original dialogue mixer
Caroline Cannizzaro	....	foley recordist (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Fangwei Lee	....	special effects
Stephanie Siebert	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Gianni Aliotti	....	lead lighter
Benjamin Andersen	....	visual effects artist
Florent Andorra	....	effects animator: PDI/Dreamworks
Patrick Angell	....	surfacing technical director
Jason Arold	....	matte painting technical director
Stephen Bailey	....	lead lighter
David Juan Bianchi	....	layout artist
Eli Bocek-Rivele	....	lighting technical director
Andrew Bonello	....	visual effects compositing engineer
Kane Brassington	....	paint fix artist
Wendell Bruno	....	assistant DMR editor: IMAX Version
Jeff Budsberg	....	visual effects
Sophie Burie	....	character effects animator
Joshua Caez	....	matte painter
Craig Cannon	....	paint fix artist
Lindsey Caplan	....	visual effects coordinator
Kevin Carney	....	character effects artist
Gregg Carrier	....	software engineer
Mathieu Cassagne	....	lead lighter
Min-Yu Chang	....	CG modeler: PDI DreamWorks
David S. Cheng	....	technical director
Adam Chin	....	lighting artist
Hermann Chong	....	media tools engineer
Sebastien Chort	....	lighting artist
Paul Chung	....	animator
Bryan Cline	....	research and development
Michael Collery	....	creative supervisor: matte painting
Simon Corbaux	....	modeling artist
Robert Edward Crawford	....	layout artist
Gregory Creaser	....	digital intermediate colorist
Christian Cunningham	....	additional lighter
Tony Davidson	....	surfacing artist
Kwesi Davis	....	production engineer
Gilbert Davoud	....	character technical director
Mark A. Decker	....	lighting artist
Nathaniel Dirksen	....	character technical director
David Doepp	....	surfacing artist
Chris Doerhoff	....	paint fix artist
Kirsten Drummond	....	lighting artist
David Eberle	....	fx engineer
Cassandra Fanning	....	digital effects artist
Jon Farrell	....	character effects animator
Peter Farson	....	character technical director
Angela Ensele Firebaugh	....	modeler
Benjamin Fischler	....	lighter & compositor
Aaron Florez	....	surfacing supervisor
Nathan Fok	....	character effects artist
Adam Gaige	....	lighting technical director
Mariana Galindo	....	character effects animator
Greg Gladstone	....	visual effects
Philippe Gluckman	....	visual effects supervisor
Dan Golembeski	....	lighting technical director
Darin K. Grant	....	head of production technology
Alex Gurevich	....	lighting and compositing technical director
Lei Han	....	lighting artist
Katy Harrison	....	lighting technical director
Greg Hart	....	effects lead
Susan Hayden	....	cg supervisor
Jeff Hayes	....	modeling supervisor
Pamela Hobbs	....	senior digital matte artist
Robert Holder	....	lighter: DreamWorks
Joe Hughes	....	character effects artist
Pamela Hu	....	final layout artist
Geoffrey Jarrett	....	crowd animator
Jeffrey 'JJ' Jay	....	character technical director
Gregory Jennings	....	additional lighter
Patrick Jensen	....	matte painter
Jeff A. Johnson	....	CG lighter
Tobin Jones	....	visual effects
Kaishin Kam	....	lead technical director
Laurent Kermel	....	senior effects artist
Michel Kinfoussia	....	lighting artist
Jennifer Leigh King	....	digital artist
Robert Kopinsky	....	effects animator
Fangwei Lee	....	visual effects artist
Jinwoo Lee	....	modeler
Minhyung Lee	....	lighter
Erin Lehmkühl	....	digital effects artist (as Erin Lehmkuhl)
Kirk Lilwall	....	third assistant editor: DMR (IMAX version)
Olive Lin	....	visual effects
Amber Stewart Lunderville	....	lighting artist
Marc Machuca	....	paint fix artist
Cara Malek	....	character technical director
Michael Manza	....	lead lighter: DreamWorks Animation
Rodriguez Mathias	....	character effects artist
John McGee	....	digital artist
Steve McGrath	....	modeler
Timothy Bud McMahon	....	lighting artist
Antonio Meazzini	....	digital effects artist
Samantha Michel	....	lighting technical director
Gaku Nakatani	....	lead lighter
Ori Neidich	....	media tools & post-production technology engineer
Ronman Yiu Yan Ng	....	key lighting artist
Brett Nystul	....	modeler
Justin Onstine	....	crowd supervisor
Tanner Owen	....	crowd animator
Cosku Ozdemir	....	effects animator: PDI/Dreamworks
Rupali Parekh	....	lighting artist
Alex Patanjo	....	visual effects
Andrew Pearce	....	director of reseach and development
Devon Penney	....	global effects animator
Drew Perttula	....	pipeline engineer
Olivier Pinol	....	lighting sequence lead
Jerome Platteaux	....	lighter/compositor
Sven Pohle	....	character technical director
Joyce Powell	....	lighting artist
Andrew Pungprakearti	....	digital effects artist
Tsun-Hui Andrea Pun	....	surfacing artist
Scott Raymond	....	crowd animator
Jason Rickwald	....	visual effects
Eli Rod	....	lighter
Max Rodriguez	....	visual effects coordinator
Milton E. Rodriguez-Rios	....	CG supervisor
Alan Rosenfeld	....	digital effects artist
Eric Roth	....	lighting artist
Frank Sabia Jr.	....	lead lighter
Hayyim Sanchez	....	surfacer
Nico Scapel	....	character technical director
Hannah Sherman	....	lighting artist
Jon Shih	....	lighting technical director
Scott Singer	....	visual effects supervisor
Marty Sixkiller	....	media tools supervisor
Drew Solodzuk	....	DMR editor (IMAX version)
Young Song	....	surfacing artist
Steven Sorensen	....	layout artist
Dug Stanat	....	character technical director
John Swanson	....	effects production supervisor
Ka Yaw Tan	....	lighting artist
Amy Taylor	....	character effects technical director
Patrick Taylor	....	character rigger
Stuart Tett	....	effects artist
Joanne Thiel	....	effects animator
Erik Tillmans	....	compositor: titles
Pete Upson	....	layout artist
George Vajna	....	second assistant DMR editor: IMAX version
Mauricio Valderrama	....	paint fix artist
David Patrick Valera	....	layout artist
Kevin Vassey	....	animator
Brent Villalobos	....	production engineer
John Wake	....	senior surfacing artist
David Walden	....	character technical director
Andrew Wheeler	....	effects lead
Gabriel White	....	lighting artist
Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi	....	layout artist
Lori Williams	....	digital artist
David D. Wilson	....	effects technical director
Laura Wood	....	production engineer
Tommy Wright	....	lighting artist
Ting Ting Wu	....	character effects technical director
Gentaro Yamamoto	....	surfacing artist
Ken Yao	....	character effects animator
Emily Yi	....	lighting artist
Ji Hyun Yoon	....	visual effects
Alfred Young	....	lighting artist
Melva Young	....	lead lighter
Alon Zaslavsky	....	character effects artist: PDI/Dreamworks
Todd Zullo	....	crowd animator
Markus Burki	....	effects animator (uncredited)
Taylor Shaw	....	effects animator (uncredited)
Hsin-i Tseng	....	end title animator: duck studios (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Guillermo Navarro	....	cinematography consultant

Animation Department
Fernanda S. Abarca	....	additional animator
Manuel Aparicio	....	animator
Kelly Asbury	....	additional story artist
Tommy Bacorn	....	artistic development
Chris Bancroft	....	animator
Keith Baxter	....	additional story artist
Mark Behm	....	animator
Andy Bialk	....	character designer
James Bird	....	layout artist
Julien Bocabeille	....	animator
Nadja Bonacina	....	modeler
Liz Borges-Herzog	....	digital paint artist
Ludovic Bouancheau	....	animator
Katrina Conwright	....	animator
Melanie Cordan	....	animator
David Couchariere	....	animator: additional animation
Denis Couchon	....	supervising animator
Cassidy Curtis	....	supervising animator
Lou Dellarosa	....	animator
Bill Diaz	....	animator
Mark Donald	....	senior character animator
Adam Dotson	....	additional animator
Thom Enriquez	....	additional story artist
Will Finn	....	additional story artist
Paul Fisher	....	story artist
Alexander Fleisig	....	animator
Jerome Fournier	....	background artist
Emilio Ghorayeb	....	animator
Sue Gleadhill	....	final layout artist
Ryan Gong	....	animator
Gary Graham	....	story artist (as Gary L. Graham)
Shaun Graham	....	crowd animator
Rex Grignon	....	head of character animation
Ron Griswold	....	animation rig engineer
Tomoyuki Harashima	....	animator
Tim Heitz	....	story artist
Todd Hemker	....	animation director: title sequence
David Hofmann	....	rough layout artist
Mariko Hoshi	....	animator
Jeffrey Joe	....	animator
Craig Kellman	....	character designer
Darryl Kidder	....	additional story artist
Darryl Kidder	....	story artist
Maggie King	....	story artist
Mark Koetsier	....	story artist
Serguei Kouchnerov	....	animator
Patrick Ku	....	character animation technical director
Josiah Larson	....	technical director
Eric Lessard	....	animator
Philip K. Livingston Jr.	....	character effects animator
Conan Low	....	senior layout artist
Sean Mahoney	....	supervising animator
Bryce McGovern	....	animator
Pia Miniati	....	animation rig engineer
Claire Morrissey	....	additional story artist
Rani Naamani	....	animator
Anna Newman	....	animation research and development
Christine Nguyen	....	production coordinator: surfacing
David Nix	....	layout artist
Pete Oswald	....	character designer
Ron Pucherelli	....	animator
David Rader	....	animator
Brian Riley	....	layout artist
Cory Rogers	....	animator
Carlos M. Rosas	....	senior character animator
Ben Rush	....	animator
Jason Schleifer	....	supervising animator
Matthew Schmidt	....	rough layout artist
Kevan Shorey	....	animator
Jason Spencer Galsworthy	....	supervising animator
David Spivack	....	animator
Dane Stogner	....	animator
Eunjin Suh	....	animator
Erik Tillmans	....	animator: titles
Philip To	....	animator
Ennio Torresan	....	story artist (as Ennio Torresan Jr.)
Theodore Ty	....	additional animator
Don Venhaus	....	animator
Jeff Wagner	....	modeler
Alexis Wanneroy	....	additional animator
Shane L. Wapskineh	....	layout artist
Greg Whittaker	....	animator
Benjamin Willis	....	additional animator
Nara Youn	....	animator
Catherine Yuh	....	story artist (as Catherine Yuh Rader)
Guido Zimmermann	....	character technical director

Casting Department
Adrienne Belai	....	casting assistant
Ben Roy	....	casting assistant

Editorial Department
James Beshears	....	editorial and post-production executive
Paul Carrera	....	first assistant editor
Gregory Creaser	....	digital colorist
Mo Henry	....	negative cutter
Alex McDonnell	....	assistant editor
Paul Neal	....	editor: high definition
Baron Northrop	....	film and color technician (as Baron C. Northrop)
Kyle Pascucci	....	digital imaging manager (as Kyle D. Pascucci)
Jim Passon	....	color timer
Timothy Peeler	....	digital colorist (as Tim Peeler)
David Teller	....	Assistant Editor - HD

Music Department
Ryeland Allison	....	music arranger
Slamm Andrews	....	additional score recordist
Slamm Andrews	....	music editor
Lorne Balfe	....	composer: additional music
Chris Barrett	....	score assistant engineer
John Barrett	....	score assistant engineer
John Barry	....	composer: theme "Born Free"
Becky Bentham	....	score coordinator
Jeffrey Biggers	....	additional score recordings
Tom Broderick	....	score technical engineer
Julie Butchko	....	music clearances
Dan Butler	....	music business affairs
Alvin Chea	....	vocalist
Al Clay	....	additional score recordist
Al Clay	....	musician: whistling/vocals
James Dooley	....	composer: additional music (as Jim Dooley)
Zain Effendi	....	samples coordinator: score
Mark Ford	....	choir conductor
Geoff Foster	....	scoring recordist
Rick Giovinazzo	....	orchestrator
Gavin Greenaway	....	conductor
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestra contractor
Richard Harvey	....	musician: woodwinds
Charlene Ann Huang	....	music coordinator
Luis Jardim	....	musician: percussion
Andrew Kawczynski	....	music technical assistant
Steven Kofsky	....	music production services
Katia Lewin Palomo	....	additional score recordings (as Katia Lewin)
Abbie Lister	....	assistant score coordinator
Liz McNicoll	....	music business affairs
Alan Meyerson	....	music scoring mixer
Perry Montague Mason	....	orchestra leader (as Perry Montague-Mason)
Wendi Morris	....	score coordinator
Sunny Park	....	executive in charge of music
Satnam Ramgotra	....	musician: percussion
Frank Ricotti	....	musician: maimbas
Tim Rodier	....	music preparation
Ryan Rubin	....	assistant music editor
Czarina Russell	....	music studio manager
Carl Rydlund	....	orchestrator
Jacob Shea	....	music arranger
Ken 'Kaz' Smith	....	music coordinator
Peter Oso Snell	....	technical score engineer
Vincent A. Villanueva	....	music coordinator
Greg Vines	....	music assistant engineer
Matthew J. Ward	....	additional score recording (as Matt Ward)
Lucy Whalley	....	assistant orchestral contractor
Mark Wherry	....	digital instrument design
Andrew Zack	....	score coordinator
Geoff Zanelli	....	composer: additional music
Hans Zimmer	....	musician: synthesizers
Andy Kay	....	music assistant (uncredited)
Nathan Whitehead	....	music assistant (uncredited)

Other crew
Adam Agardy	....	training and technical development
Holly Allen	....	production engineer
Rain Angeles	....	systems administrator
Tracey Michelle Arnold	....	production coordinator
Mike Athanasatos III	....	hardware engineer
Steve Baker	....	research and development
Alain Banas	....	hardware engineer
Joe Bauman	....	technology coordinator
Allison Bernardi	....	media coordinator
Will Bilton	....	research and development
Jonathan Boden	....	production assistant
Mauricio Brenes	....	hardware engineer
Jessie Carbonaro	....	production supervisor
Mark T. Carlson	....	effects engineer
Ariandy Chandra	....	title designer: end titles
Jason Christopher	....	production assistant
Michael Coronado	....	hardware engineer
Natalia Cronembold	....	post -production assistant
Jayson DeLancey	....	production engineer
Ava DuVernay	....	promotional services
Holly Edwards	....	studio executive
Rylee Fansler	....	voice over
Bart Feliciano	....	systems administrator
Alison Flierl	....	assistant to writers
Reid Gershbein	....	research and development
Adnan Ghani	....	hardware engineer
Jonathan Groff	....	creative consultant: story
Juli Gumbiner	....	technical resource supervisor
David Hail	....	unit publicist
Adam Hall	....	training and technical development
Wayne Hellinger	....	post-production office supervisor
April Henley	....	production assistant
Guthrie S. Hennessey	....	training and technical development
Stephanie Huber	....	production coordinator
David Isetta	....	production coordinator
Mark Jackels	....	production engineer
Geoffrey Jarrett	....	technical resource administrator
Vicky Jenson	....	developer
T. Patrick Johnson	....	production assistant
Sean Kamath	....	technical lead
Jason Kankiewicz	....	infrastructure engineer
Cohl Klop	....	adr voice (as Cohl Kenneth Klop)
Ross Krothe	....	technical resource administrator
Hans Ku	....	alliance manager
Diana K. Lee	....	production coordinator
Jeff Lee	....	engineering system administrator
Ed Leonard	....	chief technology officer
Jason Lloyd	....	hardware engineer
Nicholas Long	....	technical lead
Jim Mainard	....	product development
Derek Mann	....	systems administrator
Romney T. Marino	....	production coordinator
Mark J. Matthews	....	research and development
Chris McClintock	....	production coordinator
Megan McDonald	....	production coordinator
Eric McKinley	....	hardware engineer
Victor S. Mercieca	....	technical design director
Peter C. Miller	....	software quality assurance
Jeffrey Nickerson	....	technology coordinator
Brendan O'Connor	....	production coordinator
John O'Sullivan	....	engineering system administrator
Kristine Pascua Pajarito	....	production assistant
Paul Parmer	....	editorial systems engineer
Harbor Peoples	....	office manager: technology
Jonathan Pollack	....	creative consultant: story
Ernesto Quiroz	....	hardware engineer
Paul Replicon	....	technical resource administrator
Joshua F. Richards	....	research and development
Michael Riley	....	teaser designer
Czarina Russell	....	studio manager: Remote Control Productions
Philece Sampler	....	adr voice
Donald Schmidt	....	research and development
Mandy Sechrist	....	administrative assistant
Cathy Sitzes	....	technical resource administrator
Morgan J. Steele	....	administrative assistant
Michael Svihura	....	research and development
Casey Sword	....	technical resource administrator
Ryan Genji Thomas	....	production coordinator
Mark M. Tokunaga	....	manager of digital resources
Charley Walters	....	international adaptation manager
Karen L. Whitaker	....	production coordinator
Jon Young	....	media coordinator
Daniel Yu	....	research and development
Jorge Heredia	....	technical resource administrator (uncredited)
Shaun Potts	....	technical resource administrator (uncredited)

Thanks
Tony Cosanella	....	special thanks
Bernie Mac	....	dedicatee
Debbie L. O'Keeffe	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• DreamWorks Animation
• Pacific Data Images (PDI)

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (2008) (worldwide) (theatrical)
• Paramount Japan (2009) (Japan) (theatrical) (as Paramount Pictures Japan)
• Paramount Pictures (2008) (France) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Argentina Video Home (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (2009) (Argentina) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Bontonfilm (2008) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• DreamWorks Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Finnkino (2008) (Finland) (all media)
• Home Box Office (HBO) (2009) (USA) (TV)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Paramount (2009) (Sweden) (DVD)

Other Companies

• 20th Century Fox Studios  post-production facilities (as Twentieth Century Fox Studios)
• Abbey Road Studios  score recorded at
• Air Lyndhurst Studios  score recorded at (as Air Studios)
• Dakota Music Services  music preparation (as Dakota Music)
• Duck Studios  main titles designed and produced by
• Getty Images  footage
• Hewlett Packard  technical services
• Hewlett Packard  workstations and servers
• Hothouse Music  score coordination
• Howard Schwartz Recording  dialogue recording studio (as HSR/NY)
• Interscope Records  soundtrack
• Isobel Griffiths Limited  orchestral contractor: London
• L.A. Mad Dogs  ADR
• L.A. Studios, The  dialogue recording studio
• Post Modern Sound  adr recording facility
• Purcell Singers, The  choir
• Remote Control Productions  recording studio
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Soundtrack  adr facility

Also Known As:

Madagascar 2 (USA) (working title)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - The IMAX Experience (USA) (IMAX version)
Madagascar: The Crate Escape (USA) (working title)
Madagascar 2 (Argentina) (Peru) [es]
Мадагаскар 2 (Russia) [ru]
Madagáscar 2 (Portugal) [pt]
Madagascar 2 (Denmark) [da]
Madagascar 2 (Japan: English title) [en]
Madagascar 2 (Finland) [fi]
Madagascar 2 - A Grande Escapada (Brazil) [pt]
Madagascar 2 - De la jaula a la jungla (Venezuela) [es]
Madagascar 2 - La grande évasion (Canada: French title) [fr]
Madagascar 2 - Via dall'isola (Italy) [it]
Madagascar 2: Escape África (Spain) [es]
Madagaskar 2 (Norway) [no]
Madagaskar 2 (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Madagaskar 2 (Sweden) [sv]
Madagaskar 2 (Estonia) [et]
Madagaskar 2 (Poland) (poster title) [pl]
Madagaskar 2 (Croatia) [hr]
Madagaskar 2 - Útek do Afriky (Czech Republic) [cs]
Madagaskari 2 (Greece) [el]

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild crude humor.

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS | Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #44773) | UK:PG | Finland:K-7 | Ireland:G | Singapore:G | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Australia:PG | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Portugal:M/4 (dubbed version) | Portugal:M/6 (original version) | Malaysia:U | Hong Kong:I | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | New Zealand:PG | Peru:PT | Brazil:Livre | Taiwan:GP | Netherlands:6 | Norway:7 | Mexico:AA

Company:

DreamWorks Animation

Trivia:

The film's plot of a scheming lion trying to usurp the throne from his brother by using the king's son as a pawn is similar to the plot from Disney's The Lion King (1994).

Goofs:

Continuity: The birthmark on Alex's paw appears and disappears between shots.

Quotes:

Nana: I'm not gonna stay out in the open and get attacked by more animals. I'm too old to die.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (#5.3)" (1963)

Soundtrack:

Best Friends

Madagascar 2: Return of the Penguins

As with the comment ahead of mine: it's all about the penguins. They should have their own movie.

We were chanting: more penguins, more penguins. At the screening we just saw, people who loved the first Madagascar movie waited excitedly for the magic to begin... I LOVED the first one. Interesting note: I liked the first one better, but my BF thinks this one has a better and deeper plot and pointed out in particular that while in the first one Gloria (the hippo) was the butt of many fat jokes, in this one she is celebrated just for being beautiful.

The whole movie is breathtakingly beautiful. We didn't see this on IMAX but I bet the IMAX version will be a treat.

Sascha Baron Cohen's King is again the hands-down favorite, I heard a ripple of joy murmur through the theater at everything he said and did, although my personal favorites (after the Penguins) are Maurice and Mort, the King's cohorts.

BF was also teasing me mercilessly because (and I'm nearly ashamed to admit it) there's one scene that had me totally teared up! Yes, I cried. Can't spoil it - go see the movie and tell me after if you know what choked me up! The film did not hold the attention of some of the very small children at the screening we saw, because some portions of the film only involve adult storyline concerning the adult star characters (Alec Baldwin, Jada Pinkett Smith, Chris Rock, and so forth) but when the little characters are on screen (the baby lion in particular is DARLING) the children present were absolutely captivated.

It's fun. It's not the greatest movie of all time, but it's very fun and children will want to watch it again and again.