BEWARE
of Animals
MADAGASCAR opens on May 27
Ben Stiller ("Meet the Parents"),
Chris Rock ("Chris Rock Never Scared"), David
Schwimmer (TV's "Friends") and Jada Pinkett
Smith ("Collateral") star as the voices of
four zoo animals who hang up when they hear the call
of the wild. Alex the Lion (Stiller) is the king of
the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's
Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends Marty the
Zebra (Rock), Melman the Giraffe (Schwimmer) and Gloria
the Hippo (Pinkett Smith) have lived their entire lives
in blissful captivity, with regular meals provided and
an admiring public to adore them. Not content to leave
well enough alone, Marty allows his curiosity to get
the better of him and, with the help of some prodigious
penguins, makes his escape to explore the world he's
been missing. Alex, Melman and Gloria go after him,
but before they can go wild in the streets, they are
captured, crated and put on a ship to Africa…to
be ultimately set free. When those plotting penguins
sabotage the ship, Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria find
themselves washed ashore on the exotic island of Madagascar.
Now, these native New Yorkers have to figure out how
to survive in the wild and discover the true meaning
of the phrase "It's a jungle out there."
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